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.
Some examples of questions that should be posted here:
- Certificate of Eligibility (CoE) processing times
- Visa issuance (Questions about visa eligibility can/should be standalone posts)
- Embassy visa processing procedures (Including appointments, documentation requirements, and questions about application forms)
- Airport/arrival procedures
- Address registration
The above list is far from exhaustive, but hopefully it gives you an idea of the sort of questions that belong in this post.
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Previous Simple Question posts can be found here
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Hi all! I’m starting an internship with an internationally recognized research organization in Tokyo early fall, and they recently submitted a CoE on my behalf. Any experiences with CoE processing times for folks applying for a Cultural Activities Visa? I totally recognize it’s way too early for me to be worried– just curious about the range of wait times for this kind of visa, since many of the estimates I’ve seen from others have been for longer-term work or residence visas.
Hi! So I was just wondering, aside from asking on reddit. I was wondering where you guys would recommend I could get a consultation with a Japanese immigration expert about all the possible paths to residency me my wife and could take?
we are thinking about going as full time students but wanted to plan ahead as much as possible and weigh the pros and cons between Japan and other countries we might want to live in.