Japan gets tough on visa violators

[Taro Toporific]

...LA TIMES just ran a story of a UK reporter who was denied entry at LA airport last week, even with a visa and valid passport....

Ok I'll take your Limey and raise ya Guinea.

Guinean with valid passport, visa deported by Japan after detention
Kyodo / Thursday May 13, 9:02 PM
A Guinean man with a valid passport and visa was deported by immigration authorities after being refused entry into Japan and held in detention for one month, his lawyer said Thursday.
Mohamed Ramine Camara, a 35-year-old musician, arrived at Narita international airport on April 13 to visit his brother and friends in Japan, but immigration authorities refused to allow him to enter Japan, saying they had "suspicions" about his travel purpose....

[Big Booger]

Why did they hold him the Guinean in dentention for 1 month? That is absurd.

As for the Uk journalist, he should learn to dot the i's and cross the t's.. Kidding.

Our world is shit... and has been for a long great while. Just now is it starting to spread to the nostrils..

[Taro Toporific]

The law says that one can apply to return to Japan after a set period of years, once deported, but one's app is not guaranteed and is Never Accepted, to tell the truth. What it amounts to is lifetime banishment for overstaying

There's all sorts of ways to slip into the Concrete Buttplug(tm). It just depends on how fetid do you want to live. :P
Deported foreigners sidestep
immigration with transit trickMainichi Shimbun / May 9, 2004
Foreigners who have been deported from Japan have found a way to sneak back into the country -- and some travel agents appear to be letting them know about the method.
Hyogo Prefectural Police say a number of non-Japanese people who have been deported from the country have mingled in with tour groups passing through Japan on a trip to another destination. This lets them slip past immigration officers with transit permission.
These foreigners take advantage of relaxed rules for transit passengers, and some foreign travel agencies are apparently telling them it's OK to enter the country "because it's transit."

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

Thanks gomi for the links... I went to the immagration office today.

Nice place. As I was an intern. there was a special desk with no que. It only took about 3 minutes to get an applicaion stamp I will have to go back soon.

I brough my game boy advanced famicon mini just incase I had to Que... Ah well maybe next time.

[Taro Toporific]

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Immigration bureau probes college over visa overstayers
Yomiuri / July 13
Concerned that 227 foreign students enrolled at Josai International University overstayed their visas during 2002 and 2003, the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on Monday inspected the university in Togane, Chiba Prefecture, bureau officials said.
It is rare for immigration bureaus to conduct such on-the-spot inspections at a school over which it has no supervisory authority.

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As for the Uk journalist, he should learn to dot the i's and cross the t's.. Kidding...

Hey this old journalist has been in Japan since 1964* and all he's got is 3-year visa. Oh and they tried deport him for overstaying.



My thumbs, my thumbs, a kingdom for my thumbsBy Henry Scott Stokes/ Tokyo Weekender August 2004
I had one big educational experience the other day-- I was served a deportation order. ..
I had neglected to keep an eye on my passport and had let the date of expiry of my visa go by. ... a heinous offense. All of a sudden I was an illegal resident.
The key word is overstay!....
Yikes, I was handed a mostly Japanese-language document with my name on it, and 'DECISION' printed on the top in English, and down below that word deportation.
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* Henry Scott Stokes is a former Tokyo Bureau Chief of...The Financial Times, whose Tokyo office he founded, The Times of London, and The New York Times. He started working at newspapers upon graduation and became Tokyo correspondent of The Financial Times in 1964.

[torasan]

This is an interesting article by Mr Scott-Stokes. He says all he had to help him was his 86 year old mother in law, but reliable rumors say this:

RUMOR QUOTE: "The Tokyo Weekender columnist Henry Scott-Stokes says he almost got deported recently but .....(drum roll) and MONEY QUOTE HERE ....enlisted support from old, connected, friends in high places .....and his elderly mother-in-law .....and managed to rehabilitate himself."

For some reason he doesn't ...mention....at all..... these old connected "friends in high places" in his article above for the Weekender. Maybe he had to conceal this part of the story, and for good reasons. Hehe.

HE WROTE: "After several interviews and much palaver, all in Japanese, I was told I had three days within which to appeal the verdict to the Minister of Justice.I agreed to do that. It seemed the only possible course of action. There was no point in asking for time to bring in a lawyer. It was going to be best if I faced this crisis with just one unprofessional helper.
Fortunately, I had had the wit to bring along my 86-year-old news assistant, Fumi — she who doubles as my mother-in-law. Fumi kept me company and sat through all the interviews — including one in a windowless cubicle — always with a different official."

No word there about old connected friends in high places helping "set the record straight." Or did my eyes miss something?