hey yall im currently 15 and not eligible to apply for most exchange programs based in Australia since im not a citizen/permanent resident (still on temp visa) because it's apparently quite difficult to handle student visas at highschool level if i don't have an Australian passport.. buttt i still really wanna do highschool in Japan (not uni) it’s been my dream since i was a lil kid
YFU is the only program that i know of that doesn't require me to be a citizen (i personally checked via email) but unfortunately they don't offer Japan
i tried AFS Philippines as well (my country of citizenship) but they require me to be living in the Philippines at the time of application 🙁 i tried emailing them to confirm but they've not gotten back to me
i was considering perhaps if i lived with a family friend/relative in Japan i could do it however I found out I need to be enrolled in a Japanese highschool already to be issued a student visa and the dependent child visa only applies for parents
one of my last resorts is considering asking my parents if we could move with the help of the rural revitalisation programs there so i could get a dependant child visa, but i highly doubt they’d agree to this 🤕
yes i am aware of the entrance exams and that classes are taught in Japanese. i’ve been studying the language for 2 years and speak regularly to natives on social media. whether or not my Japanese is strong enough to survive highschool there is a different conversation, but I mainly wanted to ask about ways I could even get there in the first place
im honestly desperate atp, could there possibly be anything else i could look into or am i hopeless 😔 thanks guys
by ccpahci