Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau
If you’re in Tokyo, you will be dealing with the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau office. This is place you go to pick up and deliver forms and get those all-important stamps in your passport. Unfortunately it’s in Shinagawa, not near the station, which is very inconvenient unless you actually live nearby. The Immigration Information Center inside the Bureau has a useful telephone help line though.
They have staff speaking a variety of languages. Every time I phoned, I got an English speaker, and of course they also have Korean, Chinese and several others. However, while the information staff tend to be multilingual, many of the people who actually process your forms speak Japanese only. If possible, take a Japanese speaker to help. It’s not essential though — I managed all right by myself, so it can’t be too hard.
If you’re not near Tokyo,you’ll have to find your own local Regional Immigration Bureau. The Ministry of Justice has a list of immigration offices throughout Japan.
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pls help me to locate my wife adress there in nagoya japan she arrived there march 25 2008 her name is ivy sto. domingo 27 ylo filipina i dn’t know wat to do were i will go to help me to locate my wife she gave me number but i can’t not contact that number i can’t understand what the operator is saying her number is 00819093719997 she dn’t know that our son is in critical condition right now she is on the hospital my wife can not call me anymore beacaused she i had no work yet there but on march 25 when she arrived she call me pls help me filipino or filipina out help me pls email me adrianne0323@yahoo.com.ph
4 days ago, i experienced a horrible night in Narita airport. I was an overstay before and believed that i have served already the 5 yrs penalty. I got married (mean legally and truly) to my japanese husband now for almost 4 years,me & my kids were granted VISAS by the embassy so we went to japan… April 24, the most unforgetable and humiliating experience happened to me at the Narita Airport… some are kind, but some are very very arrogant as if i am a criminal… that experience was very traumatic for me that i am trying to seek an advise from a lawyer. I dont have any objection about the their argument of me being an over stay before… but the whole process of how they are handling and how they treat me is unforgivable!!!! Me and my husband agreed that i will not live with him in japan but instead after having enough savings, he will be the one to retire in the philippines. why is it hard for them to believe???? kawateiru deshio??? lot of foreign nationals get married and very eager to live in japan,,, I AM NOT (NO OFFENSE TO OTHERS PLS.)i only wanted to visit my husband with my kids !!!! my point is that …. here am i complete with legitemate, authentic documents and had filed my application with the datas with all honesty…. and yet they treat me as if i had afake marriage…. etc… how i wish i could explain and elaborate more of really transpired during that whole night of me being held at the NARITA AIRPORT. I dont question the LAW, but i questioned the way they handle an investigation there… japanese are supposed to be polite in any situation…. but what i have experienced made me change of what i thought japanese are.
I hope and i pray someone from the Immigration Bureau can read this or even a japanese immigration lawyer… i really wanted to make a consultation,,,, i am here now back in the philippines leaving my 3 kids there in japan with my husband…. please if somebody has something to advise, to recommend, please post a comment regarding of my story… thanks God bless….
hi anybody who knows this person name aizawa naruhiro we lost our communication 11yrs ago now i need to find him for our annulment here in the philippines,i suffered so many years waiting for him and now i need to annulled our marriage.so that for me to remarry…please help; he was in kuroiso tochigi ken when we have still our communication….thankyou so much
forget him bubbles, you know better than getting your life fucked up because of that oblivious guy. You can lead your life in a manner of not being dependent to him. Get a job at the call center or whatever. A lot of UP students made their way to graduation by sticking and setting their mind head-forward to their goals. Itampa dayun sa iya dude pag graduate mu sa Diliman. Hambala xa nga you did it not for his name but for yourself and your mom. Pabatyag ka lng nga buhi ka but show him you did the best for yourself and your mom without his help. Pucha, make him feel it bubbles. Law-ay2x gd yah ang feeling nga gna bayaan pero padayon ka lng yah eh.
hi ive read your story.tanong lng ang violation mo ba ay overstay lng at ones kalng ba nag tnt.kac i know somebody na nahuli rn sya pero nagpakasal sa hapon ngayon nandoon na kahit wala pa sya 5years d2 sa pinas….
jaan embassy,pl check those overstay people live hir in japan,espacially those who lived in shimohon machi
hey… thanks people…your words are very significant, it made me build up some guts to face those challenges… … i’m on my way back to diliman…ill do this, no matter what it takes…few yrs of suffering, hopefully mahabol ko ang mga majors ko… thank you pips….ill work my way out…the world will always be with me towards my goals, a lot of people love and care ’bout me…
btw, redbrandog21, kilala mo ko aw??? cnu ka palihog? may i know???senxa, i have no idea gid…
Hello people….anyone well aware of the Immigration bureau please share your thoughts with me. I am currently on a dependent visa & have applied for a work visa. I got a job but the company did not apply for me. They gave me the documents and i had to apply on my own. Actually i left quite a few jobs for this one. Whats eating me is that i dont know whether i will definitely get my Work Visa. Is there a way of checking the status of my visa? Or, if there is some problem in giving me visa, will they call & ask me for an explanation or are they just gonna come out one fine day & give their verdict?
I hope somebody can explain!
i thought our country are very strict to those illegal and overstaying people hir japan,JAPAN EMBASSY AND IMMIGRATION CENTER!!!!DO SOME ACT OF THIS!!! they are not supposed to be hir in japan.pls be aware of it!
good day, what can i do to deport my wife angelica catalan she was overstaying in japan and she live in choshi and she work in fishing factory in the morning and she work in moonlight club in choshi in during night hours and she plan to married in some old man japanese citizen to get a visa, can you help me to deport my wife and go back in the philippines.
Dear Sir,
First I want introduce my self I am from Pakistan and my family all we are 7 persons
I can speak Japanese and I want request to you for settle in Japan because
In Pakistan life come very hard so I request please issue me visa for save me and my family life
Please think about me with heart I can provide you information about me
Which you needed
I living a gentle life in Pakistan and I have no any criminal record in any where in Pakistan
I request please think about me with heart
I don’t know you have or not any law for this but I want your help on human race and for help others because are very kind and soft heart
I have no more words for write but only I want help
I come to Japan because I know Japanese are very good and nice and I
Live in Japan about 5 years
Now I need your favor for live a respectable life Please don’t ignore me
I am waiting for your warm full response
In waiting
Muhammad Wasim Baig
St Master Buder Din Mori Gate
House # 22\305
Sialkot Pakistan
i plan to enter japan as tourist to process my visa for canada. Can I used that as reason to enter Japan as tourist? Please reply. Thanks
30 08 2008 konichiwa.watashi wa davito des.watashi kuni wa cameroun des.niyon wa ga suki des.maye watashi wa niyon kara 2004.imma watashi wa cameroun des.nyongo wa
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attention! tokyo immigration
a person name ferdie or ferdinand sanchez is going to marry a woman name carmelita kambe who is carrying japan visa. ferdie sanchez is married here in the philippine and he is using fake papers in my full knowledge. check his paper and status at the national statistic office of the philippine.
i called many times in your office about overstay. i reported in your office this omise (pub new irene ) in katsutadai yachiyo-shi chiba ken that there is 7 overstay working there and the mama there (irene) is the worst mama that i’ve ever encounter. she did not pay the whole salary not only me there’s every one who is working in her omise.
but until now there is no action yet. irene said that her omise cannot be rade because they know some immigration officer who is giving them a tip.
kangke aru desu ka? yapari muri desu ka? ja, immigration no campaigh about overstay is MUDA desu ka?? datte nani mo yatenai janai ka. mo ichinen nan dakedo. asoko no onanoko tachi mina kawaiso. asoko no mama wa suguy warui hito dayo!!!
ACTION SHITE KUDASAI YO! ANATA NO CAMPAIHG MUDA NI SHINAIDE!
add mo po ako mikka2
I think soon their will be a big huge quake in Japan because japan Immigartion
Do not think about person feeling .They just follow their law.
im married in japanese national, and we are under CITY HALL or seikatsu hogo now, my visa now is 3 years. i just want to ask can i apply permanent?
i have a friend her in japan .married in japanese man . not using her real name in her passport .if she visit to the philippine / there is no problem to return her in japan?