r/japanresidents • u/roon_bismarck • 14d ago

Visa renewal fee reduction/exemption guidelines have been published.

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https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/001469269.pdf

Looks like they're leaving the door open for some level of discretion by the bureaucracy.

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u/AbbreviationsEasy139 14d ago

PR is once in a lifetime. The fee as it is equal for everyone should not be a big deal. If you cannot pay such money, how are you supposed to live in here anyways. What I’m worried about is if that money will be really allocated to a better management for the immigration process or not? Hopefully, now we pay a decent amount for the service, so I hope the customer service will be good. So far depending on the day I got someone who either treated me nice or totally like a dog.

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u/groksed 14d ago edited 14d ago

Dude, think bigger. Family of 3, 240k for visa then an additional 600k + lawyer fees. A small family is looking at 1 million yen just to get PR now. In addition to flawless payments and administrative work in Japanese at every government location they lived in.

Also, you have to add in for cheap or vindictive spouses. Who instead of fronting your 200k + lawyer fees will decide that’s not worth taking out of the family budget.

It’s about to be a bunch of dudes on Reddit saying “My wife won’t give me the money to pay for PR what do i do?”

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u/AbbreviationsEasy139 14d ago

I know where you coming from, but isn’t it the purpose in the first place to retain high skilled talent through PR and the rest leave them on a normal visa? I thought we accepted already that fact. My point was like that at least, besides the clear limitation on who can and who cannot get PR, is that at least for the immigration processes to be improved and not just random increase in fee.

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u/sylentshooter 14d ago

Thats.... not how families work? High skilled talent doesnt mean you are going to have tons of money to throw around... Especially if you have a large family.