Declan Murphy wrote:
> Dustin C wrote:
> > The majority of my experience is relevant, and the skill set required for
> > the role I believe is relatively hard to find. However I have not had any
> > luck getting info from immigration (via attorney)
> > stating what is relevant experience, and if I resubmit after I have 120
> > months experience whether it will be rejected or not. From what you said
> > Declan about the people that work there, it seems I will never get that
> > info....
>
> I applied for an engineer visa (using change of status from shugaku)
> for a new employee in late March. 3 months later still waiting for a
> reply. Over 10 years IT experience including prominent Swiss banks (all
> well documented), language at strong pass for JLPT2 etc. It is a lucky
> dip at times.

FWIW - Visa for the new employee was approved June 27th (applied for on
March 22nd). Pls note that this was a shigakuhenkou (change of visa
status, not a new certificate of eligibility) from shugaku (student) to
gijutsu (engineer). The work visa arrived instead in the form of a
jinbunchishikikokusaigyoumu visa (whereas my other SE received a
gijutsu visa), even though the new bloke will do exactly the same job
as the other SE.

New guy can still work as a software engineer on that visa category
though so there is no problem in terms of getting him onto the payroll.
Today I asked Immigration why the new SE received a humanities visa and
whether the renewal next year should be in the same category or
shikakuhenkou? Answer was - regardless of his experience his initial
degree was not in computing, and SE can work on this visa, so thats it,
go away.

I thanked them and left.