On Jul 4, 1:25 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> Scott Reynolds <scottr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm curious about the practical aspects when traveling internationally.
> > If the Japanese immigration people see that you seem to be using two
> > passports, what will they do? For example, if you enter Japan on a
> > flight from Gaikoku but don't have an exit stamp from the country you
> > just left in you Japanese passport, I would imagine it might arouse
> > suspicion.

Not really. If a Japanese passport holder flies to say, Germany, there
probably isn't going to be a stamp in the passport anyway. You would
have to be doing something fairly unusual, and often.

> You seriously cannot imagine the indifference of the Japanese
> immigration agents on that point.

Agreed.

Incidentally Immigration has done something with their databases since
April. Older data has been added. Leaving through Immigration my
passport was scanned, leaving the immigration bloke flummoxed. Its an
Irish passport issued last November, and I left and re-entered Japan
using it in December and March. My current visa was transferred from
my previous Irish passport and I had renewed the visa and done 1
change of status using that previous passport. He broke out in the
usual sweat and sucked through his teeth. Then he told me that he
couldn't let me leave because the computer system said (purely from
inputing my Irish passport number and alien rego card) that I was
Australian. No such "happening" occurred in December or March, or on
the previous passports.

I pointed out that he was holding an Irish passport in his hands with
my valid Japanese toushikeiei visa and valid re-entry stamp in it, and
an ARC that listed the same nationality, passport number and validity
dates. After 30 seconds he said the computer was obviously wrong, made
a note of my gaigin card and waived me through. I didn't bother
mentioning that I have dual citizenship and that my initial visas were
in an Australian passport. Coming back into Japan, the only stamp in
the passport was the Japanese exit stamp (no French, Irish or UK
stamps) and the problem appeared to have been solved.