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!CALA-MUZIK!news-out.superfeed.net!propagator2-maxim!feed-maxim.newsfeeds.com!feed.uncensored-news.com!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!i61-195-247-171.us.catvmics.ne.JP!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Changing visa Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 23:22:55 +0900 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3F856F3F.6010503@hotmail.com> References: <20031009231557.7dc502f5.tony@spamme.com> Reply-To: declan_murphy@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: i61-195-247-171.us.catvmics.ne.jp (61.195.247.171) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1065709291 19023497 61.195.247.171 (16 [139419]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:6292 Tony wrote: > Hi, > > I have foreign student visa now, and I will graduate in March. My visa is > until April by the way. I already found a job in Japan. How long does it > take to change my visa status from foreign student visa to working visa? > My friend says it takes around 3-6 months. Anyone has any experience? From my experience (having sponsored 11 work visas so far), it will be anything from 5-14 weeks depending on the following 3 variables: 1) Is your student visa "shugakusei" or "ryugakusei"? 2) Which category of working visa are you going to apply for? 3) Which bureau will you be applying at? -- "Kick it to the shithouse" - Bob Dwyer, Saturday 2nd November, 1991.