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Re: [tlug] [OT] Job hunting




Yes. I got mine in San Francisco before coming to Tokyo. I was told
there are 2 spousal visas, though, so make sure you get the one that
lets you live /and/ work in Japan.

Hmmm... I've only ever seen one on MOJ's "Status of Residence" list. It's called "Spouse or Child of Japanese National" and, apparently, includes spouses and children of those with a Permanent Residence visa (I can tell you more about *that* next month after I change over my children's visas).

That's what I was told, too, but when I got here my company also
required me to have my Alien Registration Card before they'd hire me.

Hmmm... That's probably a corporate rule more than an Immigration regulation. But if they accept the temporary paper you get while the actual card is being printed, that throws, at most, a day's delay into the equation.

That was a bit of a rush job, and immigration required a permanent
address. But it worked out ok.

That's still a question in my mind. You said you got your visa before you came to Japan so they couldn't have expected to you to have any address at all, much less a permanent one. And unless things changed while I wasn't looking, Immigration has nothing to do with your Alian Registration. And for registration, they're not looking so much for permanence as for where you call home -- something besides a hotel -- so for the earlier poster's friend's situation, he could have just given his in-laws' address and then changed it later after finding more permanent digs. Unless he somehow tried to explain to them that he didn't have a real address ;-).

There's someone else on this list who was living with a friend for a while after arriving in Japan -- maybe he can chime in and let us know how hard it was to use a "non-permanent" address to register. I think there's still some rumor mixed in with the facts here.

Above all, remember that hardly anything in Japan is cast in stone. If you take your situation to the right officials and play the clueless but contrite foreigner, you can probably get them to look past any minor rule infractions you may commit.

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Joseph L (Joe) Larabell            Never fight with a dragon
http://larabell.org/                    for thou art crunchy
http://thelemicleague.org/        and goest well with cheese.


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