Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Nagoya Immigration relocating Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:40:19 +0900 Lines: 39 Message-ID: <40BED5E3.40907@hotmail.com> References: <40BEC962.2050903@hotmail.com> <2i829mFkeoohU1@uni-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de GtkDLxubxt9EanoISg1V3Qr7WRHFyHaUvwUdSnW6h1zNIq1byk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <2i829mFkeoohU1@uni-berlin.de> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:14120 mr.sumo.snr wrote: > Have you ever used a 3rd party to sort out your visa? I'm just interested > to know how much such services run to in notoriously expensive Nagoya. I haven't because its only about 50-60 minutes away (closer from August) and in terms of fares about 1700 yen or so, much much cheaper than from Iida. From my perspective 40,000 would appear expensive, since I don't have the costs of forgone income, and I don't have to use up my store of holidays etc. Especially since August last year, as I don't have either :-) I don't know about Nagoya services. I'll ask around and see. > I pay my man 40000yen on top of the cost of the visa/re-entry permit. This is for processing at the Nagano city bureau? > In fact I'd suggested to a local GEOS 'serf', who wanted to renew her > re-entry permit only, to use my man at a cost of 10000yen on top of the > 6000yen for the permit. She eventually declined saying that since she was > heading off to Tokyo anyway at some time in the future she'd pop to the main > immigration office there. There was a time when you were supposed to use the bureau allocated to your district. So for example an Aichi resident couldn't apply for a change of visa status in Fukuoka, without first changing alien registration etc. Whether this is still the case, or applies to re-entry permits as well I'm not sure. I'd suggest to her that it might be worth checking first. -- "Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ No, don't you give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit"