Office Cosmopolitan handles International Marriages and thier status (visas) procedures.
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A foreign resident who is officially married to a Japanese national
or a permanent resident of Japan and who is living in Japan is qualified
for an application for Spouse or Child of Japanese National status
or Spouse or Child of Permanent Resident status. An official legitimate
marriage is a major premise to obtain these kinds of permission,
and an unregistered marriage and a bigamous marriage, which is not
permitted by law in Japan, are not regarded as an official marriage.
Effective Marriage
Marriage to Japanese National
A marriage of a Japanese national and a foreign citizen is legitimate
if such marriage is effective under the law of either Japan or the
foreign citizen’s home country. However, in order to obtain Spouse
or Child of Japanese National status, such marriage should be reported
to an applicable municipal office in Japan and registered in the
family register of the Japanese spouse.
Marriage to
Permanent Resident
A foreign resident who is married to a permanent resident of Japan
is qualified for an application for Spouse or Child of Permanent
Resident status. Such application procedure requires the documents
which prove the parties’ official marriage, and such documents include
a foreign resident’s family register in his/her home country (Taiwan
and Korea only), a certificate of marriage.
(NOTICE)
For a marriage of a Japanese national and a foreigner, the Japanese
national needs to submit his/her family register, and the foreigner
needs to submit certain documents designated in accordance with
his/her home country. Please contact an applicable municipal office
for further details.
(NOTICE)
In order for an application for a spouse status, an applicant needs
to submit various documents such as a certificate of employment,
a certificate of tax payment, a written inquiry and a statement
of reasons, in addition to above-mentioned family register and marriage
certificate.
Special Permission to Stay
A foreign citizen whose residence permission has already expired
is qualified for an application for Special Permission to Stay,
if he/she is married to a Japanese national or a permanent resident
of Japan.
Special Permission to Stay is granted if it is determined that the
applicant is living a genuine and stable marriage life. Such permission
is available in many cases unless an applicant has been found guilty
of a crime other than breach of the Immigration Law, or is determined
to have a seriously vicious immigration history or conduct record
in Japan.
Clipping Data
There is a possibility for overstaying foreign residents to obtain
Special Permission to Stay. An overstaying foreign resident who
is not married to a Japanese national and is raising a child who
was born between a such foreign resident and a Japanese national,
is qualified to apply for Special Permission to Stay under the status
of “a parent who desires to stay in Japan to raise his/her biological
Japanese child who is single, under legal age, in case such foreign
resident has the parental authority of the child and is actually
raising the child. In this context, the requirement of “his/her
biological Japanese child” does not mean that such child has Japanese
nationality: this requirement is satisfied if the child’s Japanese
father has affiliated the child as his own. However, since Special
Permission to Stay is granted upon condition that an applicant is
a parent of a Japanese child, such permission is not granted if
the applicant has left the child in the custody of someone else
for the purpose of working.
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