What should I do if my visa for studying in Japan expires?

If the visa for international students to Japan expires, it needs to be reissued, and the validity period of different visas will be different. Everyone must confirm it. What should I do if my visa for studying in Japan expires?

Duration of use

1, visa requirements are relaxed again.

Nowadays, Japanese visas have relaxed a lot of review again, and of course the visa rate is higher. In addition, in the process of adjustment, the Japanese government has also introduced a variety of preferential policies for studying abroad. For example, the visa for language students has been extended from the original 3 months to the current 1 year. Undergraduate students here can extend their visas to 1 year when looking for jobs in the future.

2. Duration of study visa in Japan

If the student has successfully studied in the university, then the student visa that can be obtained at the beginning only takes 4 years and 3 months. This kind of visa is guaranteed by the school, so students can get this kind of "guaranteed visa" even if they don't pay all the tuition fees for four years in one lump sum. But if students drop out of school during this period, the visa will be invalid and they can't live here.

If you are a college student, it is actually the same visa benchmark as a university, that is, issuing visas according to the time of study. Generally, colleges and universities have to study for 2-3 years, so students only get visas for more than 2 years at first. Doctoral degree usually takes 3-5 years, so students can get a 3-year visa, but it is difficult to complete the doctoral program here in 3 years, so students must renew it.

Of course, you have to apply for a visa to go to a language school, because there are several admission periods in a language school. Students born in 1 month are only over 1 year, so they cannot renew their contracts. Students born in April can run for two years and renew their contracts in the second year, while students born in July exceed 1 year and renew their contracts once a year, just like students born in April.

3. Service life

The first is the duration of stay, which refers to the time that students can stay in Japan, not the validity period. The validity period refers to how long a student's visa can be used, and only during this period can students enter and leave Japan. For example, the student visa is valid for only three months and the stay period is only 15 days. It means that from the date of issuance, students can enter Japan on any day in the next three months, but they can only stay here in Japan for 15 days at a time.

Visa type

There are three kinds of visas for studying in Japan, including technical service visas for studying in Japan, general work visas and trainee visas.

There are two ways for Japan to accept foreign students: one is that people with a certain level of Japanese can enter universities directly after passing the selection examinations of various universities. Those with poor Japanese level can first enter a Japanese school affiliated to a university or a private Japanese college to receive one or one and a half years of Japanese preparatory education, and then enter the university after passing the national unified examination. High school graduates who have no Japanese proficiency at all but have reached a certain level of English can pass the relevant English examinations of Japanese universities and enter relevant departments, such as Waseda University, Keio University, Kyoto University and Ritsumeikan University.

1. Japanese study visa student visa

In order to alleviate the severity of labor shortage in Japanese enterprises, the Japanese government reached an agreement with the governments and non-governmental organizations of relevant countries to accept some foreign workers in an organized and planned way and assign them to relevant enterprises to study and work. This will not only help foreign companies to cultivate talents, but also supplement the shortage of Japanese labor force and achieve the goal of mutual benefit. Japan's Entry-Exit Administration and Refugee Recognition Law stipulates that Japanese overseas trainees refer to those who study in Japanese public or private institutions and acquire technology, skills or knowledge, and their residence period is 1 year, 6 months or 3 months. Students should have a fixed time to learn languages or other professional knowledge every week, usually 14 class hours, and the rest time is practical training, but the practical training time should not exceed 23 of the total training time. Students only receive appropriate allowances from the institutions they attend, and they are not paid. In the past few years, the allowance for trainees is far lower than the minimum wage standard for Japanese in the same industry and position. Recently, the Japanese government promised that China trainees in Japan can get an allowance calculated and paid according to the minimum wage standard of Japanese in the same industry and position. According to Japanese law, trainees have no overtime pay, subsidies and bonuses.

2. Japanese study visa general work visa

According to Japanese law, skilled workers refer to foreigners who seek to provide special industrial technology or technical services to Japanese enterprises or organizations. These behaviors are limited to foreign chefs, architects, engineers, technicians who manufacture or maintain foreign products, gem carving, fur crafts, animal training, oil exploration, etc. Work visas are generally valid for one year. After entering the country, before the expiration of the validity period, you can go through the extension formalities at the local immigration office. Generally, it can be postponed twice, and you need to leave the country according to regulations after three years of work.

3. Japanese study visa technical service visa

Technical service visas refer to the entry visas of a number of relevant personnel as stipulated in Item 7 and Item 12 of Paragraph 1 of Article 4 of the Immigration Control Law, and the numbers are 4- 1-7, 4- 1- 12. According to the laws of countries of entry and exit, China citizens refer to professors, artists, foreign priests, journalists, investors and managers who come to Japan to run enterprises and do business with foreigners, lawyers and accountants, foreign medical personnel with business licenses, researchers engaged in research in Japanese institutions, foreigners engaged in foreign language teaching in Japanese primary and secondary schools, engineers engaged in technological innovation in Japan, experts engaged in international services in Japan, and managers of foreign enterprises in Japan.

A visa for studying in Japan can be applied for 90 days for business activities in Japan, 0/5 days for sister city exchange activities, and 90 days for religious activities, sports meetings and college entrance examinations.

Can it be postponed?

For outstanding international students who have not joined Japanese companies after graduation and are willing to work in Japan, they will be granted a one-year visa to facilitate their continued employment activities in Japan. Previously, foreign students who failed to find a job after graduation and continue to want to engage in employment activities can extend their stay qualification for up to 180 days. As a part of Japan's support for foreign students to go to Japan for employment, and in order to retain outstanding foreign talents, the Immigration Bureau of Japan has implemented a new regulation since April this year: for university graduates (including those with professional titles), if they have no problems during their stay and are willing to continue their employment activities, they can attach letters of recommendation issued by universities and other educational institutions, and their stay can be extended from 180 days to 1 year.