Criteria of working permission
Question:
I am writing to see if your firm can assist and help with extending my Filipino friend’s status of residence in Japan. Here is her background:
1) Current Immigration status: Designated activities /1 year. Expiration date: August 05, 2021
2) Current sponsor: American diplomat
3) Continuous residence history in Japan: 8 years
4) Other notes: No legal problems since arriving in Japan. Community volunteer, active in church group.
Our friend’s sponsor is returning to home country, and she cannot find a new sponsor in the American embassy. I am American with permanent residence in Japan. My wife is Japanese. The Tokyo immigration bureau told me that my status does not allow me to sponsor our friend. However, I am happy to pay any legal fees if it can help her. Can you help us find a way for our friend to get permanent residence, self-sponsorship, or any visa that will allow her to stay in Japan for 1 more year without an embassy sponsor? Is there a process for her to get permanent residence (Eijuu-kyoka)? If so, would she need a guarantor? Or is her only choice to extend her designated activities with a sponsor? Or is there another kind of visa she can get? She thinks you told her she could receive the Eijuu-kyoka if a foreigner with a business investor visa sponsors her. I do not think that is what you told her, so I would like to confirm. Thanks very much for your consideration.
Best regards
Mr. Benson
Answer:
The contents that I answered and commented to her are as follows.
*-1) According to your explanation, I am so afraid that she does not come under one of Immigration status except for designated activities.
*-2) Then, she has to find a new sponsor and apply for the extension of her stay within two months of her expiration date.
*-3) If she cannot find a new sponsor, her application will be denied and she has to leave the country before/on expiration date.
*-4) New sponsor should be one of which is categorized as follows,
(1) Diplomat/consul
(2) Person just like diplomat/consul who authorized by Japanese government in accordance with the convention/treaty
(3) Person who is now working for foreign government or United Nation (except for diplomat/consul) and has no servant
(4) Representative or vice representative of Taiwanese government who has no servant
(5) Representative of Palestinian mission who has no servant
(6) Soldier of USA or United Nation who is stationing in Japan, entitled a lieutenant commander or upper rank and has no servant
(7) Person who is residing as Business Manager with child minor 13 years old and has no servant
(8) Person who is residing as Legal/Accounting Services with child minor 13 years old and has no servant.
In addition to this information, I commented that you can apply for permanent resident status after you would be admitted to the application for extension of period of stay. Because she has been residing continuously over 10 years in Japan, stable occupation/income, accomplishment of tax obligation and has no criminal record. If she could become a permanent resident, she does not worry about her job because she has no limitation and restriction of work because of Permanent Resident Status. Anyway, the first and most important thing that she should do is to find a new sponsor who fulfills the definition of the above mentioned.
I do hope you would explain to her and always welcome your inquiry though the Immigration matter is so legally and technically.
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