Quick question for all of the visa experts here. I did a search and couldn't find an equivalent answer. If I missed it, I apologize; hopefully someone can help me find where this has been asked before.
My wife was a Japanese National, naturalized to US Citizen, and therefore lost Japanese nationality. We have two young children (5 and under) who are US citizens only, I (husband) am also only a US citizen, and we all want to move to Japan.
The Wife can apply for Child of a Japanese National (or, as I understand it, one of her parents would be the applicants) per these instructions; my understanding is that I (as her spouse) and both children would apply for Long Term Resident visas along with her Child of Japanese National application.
The instructions for Long Term Resident are here , and I have the following points of confusion:
- The children would seem to be covered by Item 4 on the Long Term Resident page. However, the three items on that page do not seem to include any situation in which the Child of a Japanese National is the basis for the Long Term Resident application. Item 1 is the closest, even though it no longer says "Child of a Japanese National". Is this correct? My wife seems to think that this page is the correct one, but I don't think that it is meant for children of Spouse or Child of Japanese National.
- The husband doesn't seem to be cleanly supported by any of the 5 items on the Long Term Resident page. The closest one is Item 2, "the foreign national (applicant) is the spouse (husband or wife) of a second-generation Japanese". This page seems to be the closest fit, since the Wife is a homemaker and has been unemployed in the US; the husband has been and will continue to be the "breadwinner".
My questions are as follows:
- Do we have the right pages, so we can ensure that we're submitting a complete set of documents?
- Is this situation rare or complicated enough that we should be consulting with a Japanese immigration attorney?
Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide.
by Ikthyoid