Sharing here my experience with PR because the process is driving me nuts and was wondering if anyone has been through the same thing.
Long story short:
1) Applied for PR in January 2024 in Shinagawa, spouse route but also after living here for 10 years having duly paid all my taxes and social contributions.
2) Received a letter 1 year and 6 months later asking for additional documents: basically invoices from me and my wife about different taxes from different years. We both had submitted certificates from every relevant authority stating we have paid all taxes for 5 years backwards in my original application. We did send them the additional requested invoices.
3) Received a 2nd letter, a week after submitting the additional docs, asking for more invoices. This time they wanted taxes and nenkin invoices out of the scope of the conditions to apply for PR (from 6-7 years ago). We sent that shit too.
4) Received a 3rd letter a week later asking for more stuff: kokumin houken invoices from
4 years ago. Didn’t matter that I had submitted certificates from the local kokumin houken office detailing all my payments 5 years backwards.
What am I supposed to do now?
Keep on playing this endless kafkaesque game?
Am I stupid? Are they stupid?
Why didn’t they ask for all the additional stuff in the 1st letter?
This feels like a ridiculously inefficient way to waste my time, or worse, their time, considering they’re drowning in applications that take longer and longer to process for obvious reasons.
More likely, it looks like they’re trying to discourage people from going on with the process.
I am seriously considering giving up as I have a long enough work visa and might leave Japan sooner than later. Anyone has been through something similar and ended up seeing the light at the end of the tunnel??
by Ant_tsukimi