Highly skilled foreign professional visa

1. Highly skilled foreign professionals:3 years
2. Dependent Spouses and children of highly skilled foreign professionals:3 years or 1year
3. Highly skilled foreign professionals’ spouses who want to work in Japan: 3 years or 1 year
4. Highly skilled foreign professionals’ or their spouses’ parents who are raising a child under age three:1 year or 6 months
5. House servants of highly skilled foreign professionals:1 year

(Depending on the nationality of applicants, other documents may be necessary in addition to the below. For details, please refer to the website of the Japanese Embassies or Consulates where the application documents are submitted.)

1. Passport
2. One visa application form (nationals of Russia or NIS countries need to submit two visa application forms)
3. One photograph (nationals of Russia or NIS countries need to submit two photographs)
4. Certificate of Eligibility (note) – original and a copy

Chinese nationals must also submit the following documents:

5. Copy of the Chinese Family Register
6. Temporary Residence Permit or Residence Certificate (If the applicant does not have a family register within the region under the jurisdiction of the Embassy or Consulates where the application documents are submitted.)

(note) Foreign nationals who want to obtain the visa for highly skilled foreign professionals have to get a certificate of eligibility for residence status with the notation of total points and type of activities as a highly skilled foreign professionals from a regional immigration bureau in Japan. Without the certificate of eligibility for residence status, the visa for highly skilled foreign nationals can not be applied. Applicants’ family and house servants also need the certificate of eligibility for residence status from a regional immigration bureau to apply for the visa.
(Application by a proxy in Japan is allowed. For details, go to the website of the Ministry of Justice, Immigration Bureau. )