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Who this article is forAn enquiry from a person who, while employed under 「特定技能1号」, received a job offer to change employers and has received notice that the examination of the application for change of status of residence is complete.
Receiving the new Residence Card is what amounts to receiving permission. At the point when you receive notice that the examination is complete, you have not yet received permission, so you may keep working at your previous job until you receive permission for the new job. However, since you become unable to work at your previous job the moment you receive permission, you need to have resigned from your previous job by the time you receive permission.
An enquiry from a person who, while employed under 「特定技能1号」, received a job offer to change employers and has received notice that the examination of the application for change of status of residence is complete.
Receiving the new Residence Card is what amounts to receiving permission.
Receiving the new Residence Card is what amounts to receiving permission. At the point when you receive notice that the examination is complete, you have not yet received permission. In practice, notice that the examination is complete arrives first, but this is only a notice that the examination has finished, and is a different point in time from formal permission (the issuance of the new Residence Card).
You may keep working at your previous job until you receive permission for the new job.
It is correct to understand that you may keep working at your previous job until you receive permission for the new job.
You become unable to work at the previous job the moment you receive permission.
You become unable to work at the previous job the moment you receive permission, and become able to work at the new job. For that reason, you need to have resigned from the previous job by the time you receive permission.
It is practical to resign with a margin of time, taking into account how much of the period of stay remains.
Taking into account how much of the period of stay remains, and whether the change of job involves moving to a new place of residence, it is practical to resign with a margin of time and have the person wait in a state where they can start working at the new job straight away. Since the exact date permission will be received is hard to fix in advance, if you set the resignation date as late as possible, there is a risk that, if the examination finishes and permission is received earlier than the resignation date, a gap will arise during which the person cannot work at either the previous or the new job. Resigning a little earlier and having the person ready to work at the new employer while waiting for permission makes it easier to avoid this kind of risk.
As long as permission is received by the deadline of the grace period, it is not thought to become a serious problem.
Even if the timing of the resignation slips and the person ends up in the grace period, as long as permission is received by the deadline of the grace period, this is not thought to become a serious problem.
We recommend resigning from the previous job with a margin of time, taking into account how much of the period of stay remains.
We recommend, taking into account how much of the period of stay remains and so on, resigning from the previous job with a margin of time, and being ready to start working at the new job as soon as permission is received.
No. Notice that the examination is complete is not yet permission, so you may keep working at the previous job until you receive permission (the new Residence Card).
No. You become unable to work at the previous job the moment you receive permission.
As long as permission is received by the deadline of the grace period, this is not thought to become a serious problem.
We recommend resigning with a margin of time, taking into account how much of the period of stay remains and whether the job change involves a move, and being ready to start working at the next job as soon as permission is received.
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