Re: [tlug] [OT] Job hunting

[Joe Larabell <fred62@example.com>]

> 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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