Welcome to the r/movingtojapan bi-weekly(ish) simple questions thread! This is the place for all of your “easy” questions about moving to Japan. Basically if your question is about procedure, please post it here. Questions that are more subjective, like “where should I live?” can and should be posted as standalone posts. Along with procedural questions any question that could be answered with a simple yes/no should be asked here as well.
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- Certificate of Eligibility (CoE) processing times
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I’m in the process of obtaining a COE to request a child of a Japanese national visa. I have to jump through a few hoops first because my mom never formally renounced her Japanese citizenship and now I’m doing so on her behalf (so I can also register her death on her koseki, which is a whole other episode). This will make the process take a few months longer, but I’m curious, assuming everything is in order, how long does a COE at the DC embassy usually take? They are pretty difficult to get a hold of there. I called 4x on Monday and then just gave up.
Once you have the COE, how does it work? We have 90 days to “use” it but what does that mean? Is it referring to submitting it to the appropriate immigration office in Japan? I’m kind of getting all this disparate information and trying to gel it together but I’d really love to see a timeline/flowchart/list (something visual!) of how the COE issuance and conversion to visa works. Thank you!