Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!s25g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: chuckers Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Permanent Residency- is it that difficult? Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 21:15:59 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 31 Message-ID: <565a169e-9420-4dba-88b7-7961d3587024@s25g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.36.179.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1268111759 3011 127.0.0.1 (9 Mar 2010 05:15:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 05:15:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s25g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=60.36.179.50; posting-account=iPkvIwoAAAAK9uQVY7lJ0Hck6k8yfmjW User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:168924 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? As Declan pointed out, it is certainly far from impossible. There are unmarried persons with PR. There are even married persons without PR. It is all a matter of motivation. My boss has been here about 20 years but is content with his spouse visa. He doesn't see a need for one. An unmarried friend of mine has been here for 14-15 years and has had his PR for about 4-5 or so. You need to decide why you want it. I wanted mine so that I would have to worry about finding a new job and sponsor immediately after my previous job. It is hard to over stay a PR but really easy to overstay a work visa. Re-entry permits are supposedly going away "soon" which will be a very welcome thing. Some banks require PR for loans (certainly loans over a certain size) but others banks may not, especially if you prove to them you don't need the money. You may as well go ahead and apply. You might get rejected but you can always try again later.