CL wrote:
> Dave Fossett wrote:
> 
>> "Elbow" <tokyoelbow@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Its been a long time sionce I renewed my spouse visa.
>>> Does this list of docs look about right ?
>>>
>>> stuff to take
>>>
[list and discussion of list snipped]

> I didn't have / need that the last time I renewed (last September) and 
> yes, the list seems complete.  Then again, I used the "new" Shinagawa 
> Immigration Office and they're so jumpy up-and-down happy that you're 
> the day's renewer who doesn't need a Portuguese, Tagalog, or Hausa 
> translator that maybe they ignore such forgotten things.  I've renewed 
> my spouse visa something like four or five times now, refusing the offer 
> of permanent residence each time.  I guess I still want to feel that I 
> can pick up and leave any time I want (among the other assorted lies I 
> tell myself).

Hausa?  I guess I'm revealing my ignorance.  There are that many people 
who speak Hausa that need visas?  Where do they all go?  They can't all 
be guards at Roppongi nightclubs, can they?  And wait a minute, the 
guards I've seen all speak enough English insult people they are kicking 
out, at least.

-- 
Curt Fischer