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!uinet.or.jp!Q.T.Honey!enews.sgi.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!yrmfa-01p4-111.ppp11.odn.ad.JP!not-for-mail From: "Ryan Ginstrom" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Spouse Visa from the US Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:42:46 +0900 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <73fde4f0.0403090838.47fbb6c6@posting.google.com> <73fde4f0.0403101226.2c1ff0cc@posting.google.com> <03av40d1qpcb0uckfv7mehdk9sq0r0rub9@4ax.com> <404FE8EB.8040609@hotmail.com> <4050116B.20209@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: yrmfa-01p4-111.ppp11.odn.ad.jp (61.116.165.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1079044817 66677940 I 61.116.165.111 ([101276]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:12570 "Declan Murphy" wrote in message news:4050116B.20209@hotmail.com... > For me (no spouse yet, no house yet) its not so much the not having to > renew bit, as much as the business side of things. I'm always receiving > the "how long are you going to be here?" question from customers, > investors and potential partners/investors, who at first seem to > basically assume that there is no point in doing anything with us that > has a time frame beyond a year or two, just in case. It has been > changing slowly, but anything that speeds perception change is helpful. I see. That's not really an issue for my present for planned future line of work. But yes obviously, the main purpose of permanent residence is to lend a sense of permanence to your residence (duh!) For me, it's just something to do. It was either this or go for the new awamori samurie cert., and my study partner wimped out anyway. -- Regards, Ryan Ginstrom