I am now developing in Japan and planning to open a Chinese restaurant, but I don’t know how to recruit Chinese chefs to Japan. Can anyone tell me in detail?

Restaurants are eligible to hire Chinese chefs. It must be a restaurant that operates "Chinese cuisine"! Restaurants operating Japanese restaurants and other restaurants are not eligible to recruit Chinese chefs. The reason is very simple! Just like a Chinese restaurant, hiring Japanese chefs to cook Chinese food is unreasonable and unreasonable! No matter how good the Japanese chefs are at cooking Chinese food, it is impossible for them to cook Chinese food in China! It’s impossible to get a visa either! No matter how powerful the Japanese boss is, if his store does not sell Chinese cuisine, he is not qualified to hire a Chinese chef! Hope everyone pays attention!

According to the provisions of Japan’s Immigration Control Law, restaurants selling Chinese cuisine must have more than 16 guests and can hire 1-2 chefs in China. To hire a Chinese chef, you need to apply for a certificate of residence qualification. The president of a Japanese hotel or company can apply on your behalf. You can also apply on your behalf through an administrative scrivener with immigration application qualifications. To hire a Chinese chef, you need to apply for a "skills" visa. The specific documents that need to be prepared are;

Fill in the application form for the issuance of the Certificate of Eligibility for Business-Employment, and submit at the same time a 40CM vertical and 40CM horizontal photo of the Chinese chef to be hired without a hat, and a photo of the Japanese restaurant You must also submit; a copy of the hotel's legal person issued by the Legal Affairs Bureau of the hotel's location within 3 months; a copy of the hotel's final accounts report for the most recent year. If it is a newly opened hotel and does not have an annual settlement, you need to submit a hotel development plan. 〉; The hotel's guide "Introduction" includes the hotel or company's development history, business scope, main trading partners, annual turnover, etc. If it is a newly established hotel or company, it must be specific when making a development plan. content, especially the monthly income and expenditure plan should have detailed figures.

You must also submit the hotel business license, store lease contract, store map, menu, store kitchen, guest seats and appearance photos. If Japanese news, magazines or radio stations have reported on the Japanese Chinese restaurant operating, the relevant information must also be submitted. Of course, you must also submit an employment contract or employment notice between the Japanese recruiting hotel and the Chinese chef (applicant) who applies to come to Japan, which must clearly record the employment time, work content, benefits, wages and other details.

<2>Qualifications and conditions for applying to be a Chinese chef in Japan

The personal information that must be submitted include; certificate of chef qualifications (chef school graduation certificate or chef certificate) ;Certificate of employment (Certificate that the applicant has worked as a chef in a hotel in China); Certificate that the applicant has worked as a chef for more than 10 years. The required 10 years of working time or experience here includes time spent in chef school. For example, if you study in a chef school for 2 years and work for 8 years after graduation, which adds up to 10 years, you will have this basic qualification. According to the general situation in China, if you enter a cooking school at the age of 18, you can apply for a job in Japan at the age of 28!

After preparing the above information, you can apply to the Japan Immigration Bureau. Generally speaking, it takes 1 to 3 months from the beginning of the application to the result. The Japan Immigration Bureau will complete the review. After receiving the written materials from the Japanese hotel and the Chinese applicant, you may go to the Japanese hotel for further investigation. After verifying that the written materials are accurate, you will receive the Certificate of Eligibility for Residence in 2-3 weeks. The Immigration Bureau will also investigate the situation of Chinese chefs through the embassy and consulates in China! Prevent fake chefs and fake chef certificates and more! After a Japanese hotel obtains the certificate of residence qualification, it will usually be mailed to the applicant chef from China. Chinese applicants can then take this certificate and their personal passport to the Japanese embassy or consulate in China to exchange for a visa, and then they can book a flight to work in Japan!

What needs to be noted now is that Japan’s review of Chinese applicants’ information is relatively strict. Prevent using fake people, fake certificates, and fake materials to get a skilled visa to Japan! After discovering that the materials are fake, not only will your visa be refused, your situation will also be put on a "blacklist."

From now on, no matter what visa you apply for to come to Japan, your visa will be rejected! China’s “counterfeiting technology” has become “notorious”! In addition, if the Japanese restaurant is relatively famous and the Chinese applicant is a relatively famous restaurant chef in China, the visa will be approved more easily.

Hope it can help you!