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Updated 28 August 2007
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hi… i want to report who is overstaying in japan (iwakura) so how can i do report with him. actually he is my hunsband. he is pakistanice… he lying me too much.. he lying me money and marry with me in japan or malaysia.. now he want to try make a paper marry with some girl stay in iwakura who have japanese citizen… since i till his wife up today can i stop him to make a marriage visa in japan… so i do it??? can u help me?? actually last few month i had went to japan immigration in nanaku – nagoya city.. but one officers promises me to catch me back to malaysia. coz he already 11 months overstay… so how can i do this report to immigration in japan . can u help me
hi.. i want to report who one pakistanice overstay in iwakura near station.. coz he is more than 11 months in overstay in japan.. he is using me to get japan embassy in malaysia to get a visa entry to japan. when he with me went to japan he say follow me to japan only for holiday but once i finished my meeting with my client in nagoya that time he run away from me.. that time i found a round my client place but i coundn’t get him.. but now he is in iwakura but i know when he stay can u help me advise how to report him?? return him out from japan
Hai,
I just come back from Iwakura, Nagoya City in Japan. I going for holidays for about 2 weeks. Nagoya is very clean and peacefull place to go. The problem is only, there is so many overstays people from pakistan and Philiphines. Its was okey if they only want to work in Japan, but they also give problem to another people. I always been disturbed by them. And I saw a lot of pakistan guys married to Japanese old ladies just to get a visa. Same to the Philiphines girls, they also married to old Japanese guys. When they get their visa they will find another guys much younger.
Why Japane immigration simply give a visa for this type of people. They also earn a lot of money for their service. Been a paper husband/wife for a several time until they get a visa.
hi,
i want ask you if i want to living in japan or studying??? how i want to apply??? how many cost if i want to study in japan??? can u help me let me know??? normally how much??? thank you
hi,
i have a friend,she is worried about the situation now,she was overstay for about 3 yrs,that time she used another name,but she come back to her country just to get married,and that time she used her true name,but she was worried about the situation right now,about the finger print,she want a forgiveness on what she did,if its ok to go to the immigration to tell the truth?what my friend should do?if it is her visa will affect it?lost visa?can you help her?any word can do.
thanks…………..
hello!i just want to know about the case of my friend,nahuli sya itong 2007 only at meron syang naiwan na bf sa japan at plano nilang magpakasal next year.nahuli sya na true name nya ang gamit nya sa maga papeles nya kung sakaling magpakasal sya legal at true name nya pa rin ang gagamitin nya maapprobahan kaya sya.makabalik pa kaya sya,at magkasama pa cla ng japanese bf nya.pls.advise her what she will do?thanks…..
please help me to inform mr. and mrs. yuji and emie nakagawa to visit their children here in the phils. they havent seen them for about 9 years. they havent send financial support for their children, not even a simple xmas gift for them. we cant contact them. 8036156262 is emie nakagawa’s # there. please kindly inform them. thank you
please help me to look for my parents in japan, mrs. emie nakagawa and mr yuji nakagawa. 803 615 62 62, they said ther in aichiken please help me
sir/man I have a Japanes girlfrirend and live in partner before, we have a plan to marry,may papers is under process in the philippines. But the Immigration police possess me and go to jail, after that my wife was marry me in side the jail. in side the jail i’m waiting for almost two months in nagoya immigration dention jail. After i’m waiting all my papers finish in September 5, and show to the immigration personel and say I’m sorry you most to go back to your netive country! The immigration was deny my visa the date is September 3 and give me a penalties 5years Up to 10years before im going back again inside japan, before my papers reales in cityhall. I have no choice,i’m going back to my country,my wife live in philippines for almost one month and live togethere but we have a big problem, it is not easy for her to adjust to live my own country,she have a sick and i decide my wife is going back again in japan . I think it is very unfair for me and my wife,everyday my wife call me and she cry because she not live with me,now my wife mother have a cancer only waiting for die.seriously worry about her sitsuation. Now i have a plan to apply visa again! How can i do to grandted my visa? It is possible give me a visa in the philippines or not? THANK YOU VERY MUCH…
good day. i have a son named yuki and he’s now 6 years old. His father is a japanese, we are not married but he did acknowledged my son by signing in my son’s birthcertificate. My son did not have any communication with his father since he was a 3 years old. my concern is, my son’s right to his father and can he go to japan and study there.
good day! I have a 6 years old son named yuki and his father is a japanese. We are not married but this japanese (based in hiroshima and had an office at Tokyo and have a company here in the Philippines) did acknowledged my son by signing in his birthcertificate. My son had no communication to his father since he was 3 years old. My concern is, my son’s right to his father, his father’s obligations.Can my son study and live in japan?
hello der! im ken c,. i have japanese husband and having a two kids with him,. but everytime,everyday having un argument with each other,. so i need to devorce my husband im so stressfull,. please help me my big problem is how to devorce him,. i always in my mind my kids, i dont what to do here becouse i have no relatives freinds here.,, please help me
ohayou!!!
nande ima made gifu yanagase no omise,philipinjin no onna noko shigoto shiteru?immigration wa nani mou shitenai ka?sorewa anatatachi no shigoto deshou?douyate nihon no seikatsu umaku narimasu,moshi anatatachi wa nani mou shinai?minna illegal visa sukateru,,,immitation kekkon,,overstay,,,demo nande sukamarenai?atou overstay no philipinjin nande nihon de kekkon suru daijobu?inchiki janai?dakara ima minna no overstay immitation kekkon yateru.immigration wa action shinai?
hello i am a single mother of a filipino/japanese daughter who is 4 yrs.old now.Since i had birth with my child i was really worried about how to raise her with the absence of her japanese father who did’t botherd to marry me or even sign to my daughter’s birth certificate..instead a japanese man friend of mine did sign it because of his symphaty to the child who is also a japanese blood.I am 100% sure and knew in myself the exact father of my child.
The story of mine as a single mother started when i dated with a japanese staff in the same company i worked in as entertainer last 2002.I was 2 months pregnant when i arrived back in philippines he promised that we will get married because he knew i was pregnant.But everything changed when i arrived in my country i call him many times and he only told me that he is not sure if the child that i have in my womb is his child and one time i caught him with another woman on the line when i tried to call him to ask and beg him that he should believe because i know in my heart he is the only japanese man i gave my whole with.i have worked a a lot here in my country to raised my child alone without the help or support from her japanese father who abandoned her since im pregnant.
I am really worried that my very young poor half japanese daughter will grow up without any privilages in japan or even see meet her real father, i am asking now if there is anything i could do so i can be able to give my child the right of meeting her father in the future or rights to have her visa in japan as well.I am positively sure and interested if i have to make them have dna test so that the japanese immigration will believe that my child has the right in enetering japan.
Please i really need consult and advices with this.I will appreciate it very well.
-thank you so much
we’ve just learned that finger printing is now required in the immigration and my husband, has grown wartz on his index finger which we plan to have operated once he vocation for two weeks in the philippines. my concern is, will there be any problem in the fingerprinting if there’s wartz or if the wound has not fully healed yet?if yes, what can we do to avoid any problem in the immigration, do we need to secure/present document such as medical documents?thank you for your attention.
I overstayed in japan for 1yr & 4mos. using my real name but I was caught last 2006. Now i was in the philippines. I have my japanese boyfriend and we’re planning to get married on 2010 I will use my real name. I just want to know if it is possible for me to go back in japan if we’re going to get married on 2010?
overstay igppai irru kanishi gifuken (KISS)omisenonamae!shirabetekudasai
good day to all of you! my cousin has been asking me this question for many times now and i think she is not satisfied with my answer so i decided to consult you this on her matter.she was married to a japanesse citizen in the philippines before.suddenly her husband divorced her because her husband had a relationship with another woman and the woman became pregnant,which is unfavorable to her.despite this she did not bring the case to a family court because she her guilt is upon the baby that she is bearing.but her concern now is that her visa has still 2 years remaining.she dont want to go back to the philippines yet because she want to put up some amount before starting a new life.could it be possible that she stays here until her visa expires? wouldn’t the immigration send her back home since her status is now abolished? pls reply my mail sooner because she’s really going paranoid now.and im sad about her.
pls help me i dnt know wat to do or go to help me to locate the adress of my wife ivy sto. domingo filipina she is in nagoya japan she arrived there on march 25 2008 i cannot contact the number she gave me 00819093719997 beacused she dnt know that our son is on critical condition right now our son is on hospital she never called yet becaused she don’t have any work yet there pls help me email me if ever u find my wife pls i am begging u all.my email add is adrianne0323@yahoo.com.ph pls any filipino out there pls help me help us to contact her\
immigration to japan seems extremely difficult. i plan on moving there and become a naturalized citizen. one thing i would like to know, from the websites ive seen, you need to live in japan for 5 or more consecutive years to apply for a naturization. but you have to sign up for visas that only last for only a little while. how am i supposed to become naturalized if i cant live there for more than 5 years before coming back? and would i need to apply a permanent residency before i apply for naturalization?