Hello there,
I found my future wife in Japan, marriage with her is complicated to say it bluntly (She already was married once and proving her first marriage and divorce was done "correctly" in Germany to get the "Ehefähigkeitszeugnis" takes a lot of time and effort), but I think after 6 Months of preparation and exchanging documents with at least 4 governmental offices I may soon have all required documents together to marry her around August in Japan and apply for the spouse visa. (Maybe one day I can write a big post about all the struggle I've gone through).
Family marriage is planned for the next year with also my relatives visiting Japan in which we hope I'll finally be living in Japan, we also want to have children and generally plan our future to be in Japan.
Everywhere I look I think the Visa process takes around 2 – 3 Months so I calculate roughly with that and think I'm starting working from Japan around November (worst case?)
Now my questions:
Due to the fact that my Japanese is still far from being fluent I will not immediately try to go into the Japanese Job market (wich I could do for an international company and my skillset).
But the German company I'm currently working for wants to keep me as an employee even when I'm moving to Japan, the company is a local IT company, a GmbH, with the option given to me to work completely remotely (I consider myself very lucky with this situation).
So how can this be done, are here some Germans that maybe were in the same or similar situation?
I think of becoming a "kind" of freelancer, but with only one employer (this would be illegal inside of Germany [Scheinselbstständigkeit]) and just write my company invoices with the hours I worked each month.
Also I want to do the tax and insurance situation on the Japanese side right from the beginning, but still want to consider my German side, maybe continue paying into my German retirement fund and everything.
Working on a hourly basis would be fine for my company, but I want to consider all options, if there is anything besides the freelancer option.
If you have any tips, maybe a good starting point, more information as google can provide (I tried sometimes asking ChatGPT, but it's answers to nearly all detailed questions regarding the marriage process were wrong / hallucinated and in general a bad advice, so I don't really trust it in this regard).
Also a good tax and insurance consultant office that preferably speaks German or knows German and Japanese rules in the Kanto or South Chubu Region, maybe also one in Baden-Württemberg in Germany that had some cases like mine would be very helpful.
Thank you for any help and advice.
by Ziwwl