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The revocation system for permanent residence was created by the 2024 amendment to the law. In screening for permanent residence, whether you have paid your taxes and social insurance contributions by their due dates is said to carry particular weight in practice, and your annual income, days spent outside Japan and guarantor are looked at as well.
A guide for people who want to know about the revocation system for permanent residence and the points looked at in screening in recent years.
A system created by the 2024 amendment to the law, under which permanent residence can be revoked in certain cases.
Until now, permanent residence has been treated as a status where, once you obtain it, there is no longer any limit on your period of stay. The 2024 amendment to the law created a system under which permanent residence can be revoked in certain cases.
Because of this, permanent residence is no longer a matter of "obtain it and you are done". It is now positioned as a status that assumes you go on meeting your public duties after obtaining it.
This article does not deal with when the system takes effect. For the date on which it starts, please check the information published by the 出入国在留管理庁 (Immigration Services Agency of Japan).
Your payment record for the last several years is checked, and whether you paid by the due dates is said to carry weight in practice.
In screening for permanent residence, it is said that in practice weight is placed not only on there being no arrears, but on whether you paid by the due date (payment on time). The items that are checked include the following.
In practice, it is said that the payment record for roughly the last 5 years is looked at. Besides the tax payment certificates you submit at the counter, it is said that data on payment dates may also be referred to.
These points are stated as guides in practice. They are not published standards.
For a single person, about 3.5 million to 4 million yen is said to be the guide figure in practice.
The guide figure used to be said to be around 3 million yen (300万円), but given the cost of living in urban areas, in recent years about 3.5 million to 4 million yen (350万円〜400万円) for a single person is said to be the guide figure in practice.
As for the idea of adding a couple's incomes together to meet the guide figure for annual income, where the main applicant's own income is low and it is topped up by a spouse's part-time earnings, it is said to be hard to have the income accepted as stable, on the basis that the household could not support itself if the spouse left their job.
These amounts are stated as guides in practice. They are not published standards.
It is said in practice that going over 100 days outside Japan in total in a year tends to count against you.
When it is decided whether you have lived in Japan "continuously", as the permanent residence requirement puts it, your trips outside Japan are looked at. In practice it is said that a single absence of 90 days or more, or a total of more than 100 to 120 days in a year, is treated as breaking the count of years of residence.
It is also said that the tendency is growing to look at business trips abroad made on the company's instructions in the same way, on the basis that you are absent from Japan either way.
These numbers of days are stated as guides in practice. They are not published standards.
Someone in a position to know the applicant's situation in daily life is said to be preferable.
As for the guarantor, it is said that not just any Japanese national will do, and that what is looked at is whether the person is in a position to know, in daily life, how the applicant complies with the law. A supervisor at your workplace is one example.
It is also said that the guarantor's own tax payment status may be checked.
3 things: check your payment record, adjust the timing of any job change, and prepare a 理由書.
It is a fact that the system was created by the 2024 amendment to the law. This article does not deal with when it starts, so please check the information published by the 出入国在留管理庁.
About 3.5 million to 4 million yen (350万円〜400万円) for a single person is said to be the guide figure in practice. However, this is not a published standard, and it also varies with things such as the number of dependants.
Going over 100 days outside Japan in total in a year is said to tend to count against you, and it is said that business trips made on the company's instructions tend to be looked at in the same way.
Changing jobs just before applying is seen as an unstable element. Applying once at least 1 year has passed at the new workplace is said to be the standard approach in practice.
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