What is Permanent Residency in Japan? (we got it!)
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- Опубликовано: 5 янв 2022
- Good news everyone, we got PR! What does that mean, exactly? Here's your answer! If you need any Japanese immigration help contact the amazing Fukasawa-san at visa-fukasawa.com (not sponsored)
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I've only ever had student residence permits since I'm an eternal student, but yeah, it's a lot different. I was/am allowed to work 20 hours a week alongside my studies, and after I graduate I have six months to look for a permanent job. It was the same in Sweden, and in Ireland too, but when Corona hit Ireland decided that the work seeking permit was only valid for 20 hours a week since they couldn't process renewals. It sucked and obviously no one would hire me, so I'm doing another master's in Denmark. Hoping to go onto a PhD when my permit expires at the end of 2023, but if I can find a job that's cool too!
I guess a disabled person should just marry a Japanese person. Japan won't allow foreign disabled persons?
So the stories I've heard about a foreign couple having to engage in love making in front of a Japanese official are true to get the spouse's p.r.
In Norway it's pink and blue.
Well if you want to prove Kyde is good enough to stay in Japan, just show them the award where she saved someone's life!
Which video?
@@NatalieeRaineruclips.net/video/WWmtpyiWEnc/видео.html
Congrats on your achievement! You guys are great ambassadors for Japan and they should be proud to have you as permanent residents. Happy for you guys!
Love watching you guys
Omg congrats!!!! It's a long time coming 🥳
Congratulations!!!
Congratulations, Kyde & Eric!
Wonderful news! Congratulations! Happy New Year!
Congratulations! You deserve so much of that peace of mind!
Thanks Kyde and Eric great video very intersting
Congratulations!! Excited to hear more about your House situation!
Congratulations, dear Eric and Kyde!!!
Congrats!!
Congrats to Kyde & Elic ! Stay in Japan and enjoy your journey as long as possible.
Congratulations! I have been flowing you guys for a decade now! Wow!
Wowz this was so interesting I blasted through the whole video without realizing. Congrats, you two!
Been watching y’all since the start this is amazing so proud and happy for y’all.
Oh my gosh, congratulations! We need to chat again some time! So glad that you two are doing so well!
Congrats guys. Your channel is a vital resource for people like me who want to vist Japan.
I was proud to be a 'signator' of 2 Hong Kong friends who now have open access to living in either [Chinese owned] HK or [the former Empire of the] UK. They can now move to England whenever the Chinese Govt decides to tread more authoritarian boots into HK. Quite a lot of paperwork and 007 never had to do this stuff.
Congratulations! Japan is such a nice country to live in. Enjoy!
This was a very interesting topic.
Congratulations to you both, it sounds complicated and stressful, but ultimately rewarding.
perfect explanation of the experience haha
Congrats!
CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!
🐏
First off, just wanted to say congratulations!! Very excited for your both. Excited to hear more about the house and that whole process.
I’m going through this process for my husband in the US. It’s a lot of work! I have to provide so much documentation to prove why I need him here with me in the US.
Congratulations to you both! I'm so happy for you. Hoping I can do the same at some point, but it'll probably be at least a decade before I finish my degree and get the proper amount of working time in Denmark xD just being a nomad for now, it's not too bad!
yes,gratulations a big achievement!
I enjoyed listening to this explanation.
Amazing news! Congratulations. Bureaucracy in Japan is no joke. My visa renewals were always a bit of a lottery for how long I would get, mostly 2 years. I'm really excited to see your adventures in your new house (fingers crossed for the loan!). Happy new year :-)
really interesting and informative video
Long, hard and thorough. I'm gonna link this video in my PR videos from now on!
Cheers for the video! I just got PR after nearly 11 years in the country, and it's such a relief!
Congrats on everything! The PR and getting through the process of getting it!! Ill be going through this kinda thing for the UK soon!
Good luck!
This was absurdly informative. Also, shout-out to Eric. I'm 6'11" and you've given me a good idea of what it'll look like when I make it over to the SEA region. Be safe, have fun y'all.
おめでとうございます㊗🎉
いつも拙いリスニング能力で拝見してます😀
これからも素晴らしいコンテンツ待ってます👍
congrats guys
I've known you since your youtube videos from Japan. You two are the most Japanese than anyone I know. Thanks for sharing this.
Grats guys!
Congratulations on getting PR!
You are getting even more PR by talking about your PR, not the same PR but still good PR about reaching your PR :D
I am glad to hear it, happy for you guys, you deserve it, it is as it should be. Thanks for your hard work and perceverence!
hahaha
Congrats!
I moved from Russia to the US in 2011, the same year as you guys (and I’ve been watching you since 2014), but last year I became a naturalized US citizen. The differences between PR and citizenship are very similar - it’s about voting, being able to go abroad for long periods of time, and, of course, serving jury duty. For the process, I think the main difference was that for both PR and citizenship I had to pass an interview instead of writing a personal statement and submitting a letter of recommendation. It was not bad, but still stressful enough. Now I can relate to people in this process.
When you say "PR" in the USA does that mean "green card?"
@@kydeanderic Yes, Permanent Residence Card is the official name for green card. It sounds very similar to PR in Japan that you described.
Hey! I knew it! You are getting a "mansion". Back to a residential area. Yeey! I can see a lot of cool videos coming up. BTW, Congrats on your PRs! Cheers!
Great video
congrats!
ケイディ、エリック おめでとう！！
自分のことのようにうれしいです。
これからも楽しみです。
Congrats for the double PR!
Even though it might be boring for you it’s very interesting to hear how things work (or not) in Japan! Thank you for sharing your story.
Why does the end card have to look different?
Gotta change camera angles as much as possible to keep people from looking at their phone! hahahahaa
Congrats🎉 Enjoy the freedom! I'm originally from Ireland and moved to Germany 30 years ago and went through a very similar process, so I feel your pain and all the bureaucracy involved. Thankfully due to good EU co-operation life has become a lot easier👍
I stumbled in...guilty...YT recommended your new house video & I was hooked & kinda' disappointed that I've missed out on 10 years of cool videos.
Congratulations me and my husband had to go through this. He’s from Venezuela and I’m American and we applied for his American pr a few years after we got married (because we went the lawyer route which was very expensive)but we had to do a few of the same steps by providing our marriage license, photos,my job history and we had an interview but thankfully since we waited a while to apply for his pr he can now get his citizenship sooner than later which will be I think this year.
Not my kind of topic because...im too old, lazy, poor and unskilled to ever dream of moving to Japan but....it was still entertaining since its Kyde and Eric made 💕
Congrats for your PR!
On the topic of naturalization there is a video of the channel of Life where i am from. The requirements listed aren't that much more complicated besides the self written motivation letter, the check on your living standards and the needed criminal records. So in my view, the biggest hurdle would seem the fact, that you have to give up you other nationality. And that is a step quite a lot people aren't willing to make.
Yea, honestly maintaining our USA citizenship sorta gives us a redundancy for life. Giving it up would be annoying is say, we need to spend a long time stateside to take care of a family member or something, we'd need a visa, etc. -E
@@kydeanderic but... USA makes you to pay double taxes. I think its worth to get rid of it...
@@breeze9248 That is inaccurate. -E
and another informstive one i like, thx! whats next will u buy a house?
congratulations on your highest japanese visa. some of my family went through this. we were even careful about one letter each by each. many layers chcked everything of relationship record of 10 years... my document actually started of mid school memories... that was so surreal.
Congrats
Congrats on your PR! Would actually be quite the experience to opt for a 7/11 job now :).
Your mockup on the thumbnail was oh so clever!
Thanks! It took a while but was fun. -E
ya me hacia falta ver uno de sus videos.
Lets goo!!
I love these informative videos. Thank you for explaining it to us.
EDIT: OMG OMG My name is in the credits now. Now I shall live forever as a name in the credits.
hahaha yay!
Congratulations on getting your PR guys! When you said "hefty bill" I expected a lot more than $1,500. It seems like it was money well spent compared against the general costs of living there and the opportunities that it will open up for you.
I really appreciate this because this is my dream. I have some proofreading experience- perhaps you could make a video about how you found a proofreading job and advice for others? Thank you both! ❤ and congrats to you guys!
tbh it was just lucky circumstances. it's not a common position to find from outside Japan, especially if you need visa sponsorship.
Congratulations! Permanent residency and a house, hopefully this alleviates some stress from your lives
I moved from UK to US, ultimately it's a lot of form filling and checking off boxes but overall simple enough.
thanks!
Sounds very similar to my experience immigrating to Australia over 15 years ago. Also used a lawyer, they also used a very similar point system, also had several months waiting time before the approval - and it does get you the same types of 'freedom', but no right vote.
Congrats 👍
I got a tourist visa when I was in Japan. I knew they put a stamp in your passport when visiting but I thought it was interesting to discover that's technically a visa.
熊谷以来ずっとお二人のファンですけど、しょっちゅう世界中飛び回ってたから、いつ日本からいなくなっちゃうか心配だったけど、これで一安心❗👋
Nice job
おめでとう！ 多くの日本人も歓迎してます^^
great video! i'm curious though, before getting your PR, did you guys have to get special permission on your visa for making money from youtube/side job?
Congrats! That is a big deal! 2 gaijin as pr! Wo!
Congratulations on the accomplishment of completing those societal rituals that people are tasked with when seeking to join a society.
おめでとう
Hi , Just recently discovered your channel. I was a permanent resident in Japan 20 years ago but lost this when my Japanese wife & I decided to re-settle in Australia. I even tried to keep my p.r. card as a memento but i was harassed to return it. One of the benefits of p.r. you didn't mention in the video is the Japanese medicare system , whereby medicines & specialist treatments are much cheaper. All the best, i hope to be back in Japan in the next few months for an extended stay. BTW p.r. in Australia is a 5year renewable visa with citizenship application after 4 years while holding a p.r. visa. The requirements for a p.r. visa are varied but presently focused on skilled work areas, such as medical , aged care etc.
hrm, I wonder if something has changed since you had PR, but the cost or access to medical treatment didn't change at all when we shifted from normal work visas to PR. -E
I remember when, we all went with you to japan, then the journey to india and we got sick etc, those were the days, sigh.
Wow congratulations Kyde and Eric! Does this make getting apartments etc easier?
In some cases a bit, yes. -E
Great news, congratulations!!! All that talk about the japanese citizenship kinda makes me wonder what kind of people would be the ones to apply for that? I guess people with children in Japan, or those who had been living there for most of their life, would be interested.
I haven't met any so I'm not sure, hahaha. -E
I think you two must love the way of living and the cultures, the Japanese peoples all that made you decided to live permanently in japan . I don’t think I can live in Japan but only visiting as a tourist and enjoy my holiday as I often travel every year to Japan then go back to my home in Australia which I found must easier life than japan .
You guys should do a ski/snowboard trip in Hokkaido this winter since u can't leave the country :D
we'd really like to but this winter we don't have the time or spare finances for it unfortunately. -E
My parents went through this while we were living in Japan. I don't really remember how difficult or what it was. I just know I had I think is correct since I haven't been back to Japan over 10 years now...
Good lad and lass...The Everton USA Chairwoman 2009 had to jump through hoops to get her English Residency...
Eric keep saying "my PR my PR", I have been wondering "Eric's PR and Kyde's PR"???
I finally got the answer after 41 min. Anyway congratulations!
I renewed US green card three times 10ys x 3.
Many people from developing countries think US green card is the gateway to the US citizenship.
American citizenship gives them the freedom, the bright future, and escape from their own country.
Also they want to bring their family and relatives to the US.
However many Japanese green card holders don't get the US citizenship.
Many of them ultimately go back to Japan. US is the place for challenge and learn new things.
As much as people dislike lawyers, when you need one you are soooo grateful they exist!
hi thanks a lot for info, i want to ask about your friend brad, his PR got denied as u mentioned how many months did it take ? was it 8motnhs for brad just to get rejected for PR? thanks a lot hope you answer 🙏
Congratulation ! You guys are good until 2028 ! Long time ago...1955 ....once upon a time..
I had to do the same every 4 years...to American embassy and to Japan immigration department ....since then laws changed.... Any way good luck ! Next step is japan citizenship ?😍😄😷
do a whole series on buying a house ,getting the loan, searching etc...
Hah, Yea, we aren't sure how we will go about it but we do plan on talking about the process.
congratulations! Japanese immigration sounds quite brutal. My partner and I moved to Canada and with it permanent residency was granted immediately upon entry. We moved because Canada has very robust film/tv/game development industries and I work as a specialist in these fields. We moved for work, and though I personally had shorter term work experience in the country previously my partner had no such connection but was granted it anyway on a separate application. In general they will take anyone who has no criminal history, had a university education a certain number of years work experience, adequate language proficiency and other factors are considered but it was very very straight forward. They really want the immigrants, the country has less people than California and derives most of its growth from importing talent. The most difficult part of the process was having to recount 10 years of travel history, and the ridiculous IELTS English test which was incredibly tough for even a native English speaker. Mostly because in my case I had to listen to recordings that happened to be done in a thick Australian accent. There's also a speaking portion unlike the JLPT. I had to take it twice! But yeah man Immigration is like the ultimate in adulting!!!
Oh wow, interesting process for Canada. Thanks for the deets. -E
From our perspective not brutal enough. We've had issues with Kurds, Iranians, Africans, Vietnamese, Brazilians, Peruvians, Chinese, Koreans....causing all sorts of problems. The job of immigration office is to root out foreign-nationals who are "undesirable."
Once you see the Ghettos and parallel mini-communities in Japan, you'll understand why most of us want tight immigration policy. There are entire blocks and buildings that Japanese will not and cannot live because they are occupied by Chinese, Kurds, Koreans, etc. (It's not as bad or wide-spread as European ghettos, though.)
Conversely, people who have valuable skills and education, such as in IT, architecture, finance/accounting, law, medicine, engineering, science...have a much easier time to get their work visas because we desperately need their expertise. Japan just started a new J-SKIP and J-FIND visa scheme, focusing on professionals as well as new graduates of top 100 universities world-wide.
In practice, Japanese Immigration policy has always given preferential treatment to foreign-nationals who were born/raised in Japan and international students who've graduated from Japanese universities and graduate schools. They will almost always have an easier time in obtaining work visa, PR, or citizenship. If I recall, most of the international students who graduated from Japanese universities had 5 year work visas.
And students, particularly from the UK and former Soviet Union, who've majored in Japan/Oriental Studies, Japanese literature, language, culture, or history at top academic institutions in their home countries...also seem to get special treatment. Obviously, we are more comfortable with people who are fluent in our language and culture.
Yup, I'm a permanent resident of Taiwan. The process sounds similar, but also like it was much easier in Taiwan. For me, after 5 years of living in Taiwan (it used to be 7 years were required, but they lowered the time), I went to immigration myself with some documents: a letter showing that I was currently employed, my tax statements from the past 5 years showing that my income was above a certain level, and a Taiwanese criminal background check. Getting the APRC as they call it (alien permanent resident card) cost about 300 US and I don't think that's refundable if you don't end up getting it for whatever reason (but also I think that immigration would only accept the paperwork if it was complete, so I don't really think there was any chance of paying and then being rejected). The benefits of having an APRC are basically that I can work anywhere I want (or not have a job), I can do private tutoring (which if you have a normal work visa you cannot do), it's easier to get things like a phone and internet contract, and you can leave for 5 years and keep your status. Also the government released some stimulus payments because of covid19, and citizens and APRC holders were able to get those. It was also good for my employer (an international school), because I found out that they have a cap on how many foreigners who need work visas that they can hire.
Neat, thanks for the details! -E
Kyde...you are an English teacher in Japan...I have a lot of catching up to do, but...where/how did you learn to read & speak Japanese? Did learning come naturally ??
They come to your apartment in the US too.And ask you intimate questions about each other. Look to see where your clothes are stored ect.
Naturalized citizens in the USA have more government requirement as far as history and knowledge of your rights. Dates of events, ect, All that stuff we learned in school the have to know all at once. I don't think ( I KNOW ) most Americans could never pass the naturalization test.
It's hard enough to get citizenship if the country is English. I can't imagine how hard it would be in Japan. I myself would t even try it unless I could speak super fluently. It probably helps having a partner.
Things have changed a lot since I was a kid though. We have relatives on Canada, London, and Germany and I don't even remember having to fill out forms as a kid. Just a picture. My Mom always kept my passport and papers.
I stayed an entire summer in Germany in 1991 or 2 after the reunification and all I remember doing is seeing some blonde lady who asked me a few questions every couple weeks.
I didn't know there was permanent residency vs citizenship though. Interesting.
I think the certificate of appreciation from the Tokyo fire department did help a lot. :)
haha, Yea, it's possible
18:00 we need an immigration system like that in the US
Way back when (back in the day so to speak) under a working visa (not residency) you had to always have a re-entry permit when we left. This meant a trip to immigration before every vacation, or getting a more expensive multiple re-entry permit. I know this is no longer the case.
Yea, actually it was like that when we first moved here, so we feel that pain (slightly)
Jubilations! As for involvement with Japanese culture, I'd say your many excursions into the hinterland are ample proof of your love for the country and its people. And its food 😁
The process to have PR in Canada is quite similar, but longer, it gakes a year, dur to the number of immigrants. Also, everything is online.
Basically its impossible but you did it anyway, so thats pretty amazing. Congratulations.
the way she was talking made me think yall are more like partners now just kinda chillin like besties rather than a real married romantic relationship. I hope yall are still romantically involved and happy together wishing you the best
lol we are all of those things. -E
Wow.. thats a long and stressful process. It's kind of weird that you had to do a visual inspection for Eric's PR spousal visa since he was under Kyde's visa as a dependent/spouse all the years prior. 🤔
Hi
Congrats
Why didn't you apply for both PR at the same time as a family?
Thank you
I think we could have technically, but we didn't expect Kyde to get it first try and didn't want to press our luck. -E