Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!p3g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Permanent Residency- is it that difficult? Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 20:29:13 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 10 Message-ID: <248c01cc-af0f-4d33-af82-5257d918076c@p3g2000pra.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 125.207.90.182 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1268108953 10653 127.0.0.1 (9 Mar 2010 04:29:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 04:29:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p3g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=125.207.90.182; posting-account=dFdNnAoAAACo_-792nICp6wBtnsk5ZbZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100202 Firefox/3.5.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:168921 On Mar 9, 12:57=A0pm, sensyujin wrote: > It seems that many people, even after living in Japan for 20 years, > haven't even attempted to attain permanent residency. Is it really > that impossible to attain, especially if you're not married? Its not impossible, just unusual. The other considerations are that even with permanent residency, you still need a re-entry permit and therefore need to visit immigration every 3 years in any case, and still have to do the fingerprinting and registration card updates etc. PR wouldn't necessarily make life any easier, for me at least.