Office Cosmopolitan handles Permanent Residency procedures.
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Advantages of Permanent Resident status
A foreign resident who is qualified for Permanent Resident status
has the following advantages.
Extension of period of stay is unnecessary.
Unlike under other kinds of residence permission, Permanent Resident
status allows a person to stay in Japan for an indefinite period
and thus eliminates the need for extension of period of stay.
Limitations on activities are removed.
Under the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law, a person
staying in Japan with residence permission except for Permanent
Resident, Spouse or Child of Japanese National, Spouse or Child
of Permanent Resident and Long Term Resident is not allowed to operate
a business which generates income or to receive money related to
an activity other than the one based upon which he/she is permitted
to stay in Japan. Nevertheless, a person with Permanent Resident
status is not subject to such limitations on his/her activities
in Japan.
Other advantages (not specified in the Immigration Law)
Financial institutions including banks usually require a foreign
resident to have Permanent Resident status when executing a housing
loan agreement with such resident. Therefore, we recommend a foreign
resident who plans to take out a loan to buy a house to apply for
Permanent Resident status.
Please note that a foreign resident with Permanent Resident status
still needs to have reentry permission after a temporary travel
abroad.
Requirements for Permanent Resident status
In the examination to permit Permanent Resident status, the following
requirements are carefully examined.
General principles
An applicant needs to have lived in Japan continuously for not less
than ten years.
A person who entered Japan as a student and started to work after
completion of study needs to have lived in Japan for not less than
five years after his/her status of residence was changed to that
of a working visa.
Spouse or a child of a Japanese national or a permanent resident
A spouse of a Japanese national needs to have lived in Japan for
not less than three years after marriage. In case such person married
and lived with the spouse for certain time period in a foreign country,
such person needs to have married the spouse for more than three
years and stayed in Japan for not less than one year. It is required
that a normal and substantial marriage life be sustained without
breakdown of the marriage or a separation incidental to such breakdown.
A child of a Japanese national is required only to have lived in
Japan for one consecutive year or more.
Long term resident
An applicant is required to have lived in Japan for consecutive
fire years or more after obtaining Long Term Resident status.
＊An applicant needs to have stayed in Japan for the maximum stay
period available under his/her current status of residence.
(For example, the maximum stay period available under Spouse or
Child of Japanese National status is three years.)
It can be said that an applicant who satisfies the above principal
requirements has succeeded in finishing the first stage of the acquisition
of Permanent Resident status; however, whether or not permission
is actually granted is determined as a result of an overall evaluation
of the applicant’s conduct during his/her stay in Japan.
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