How To Change Dependent Visa To Working Visa In Japan

Application form for modify of status of residence

*The application class differs depending on the status of residence (purpose of stay).

Delight click "PDF" or "Excel" for the desired condition of residence (purpose of stay).
They are linked to the corresponding application forms.

* Every bit a result of diverse legal changes and reforms, the forms available on this page take been revised. Still, the versions which were available before the changes are still usable.

Status of residence - purpose of residence in Japan

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Temporary Company
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- Short-term stay
  E.g., Visiting relatives; short-term visitors in Japan on business
Highly Skilled Professional
*Applicants may use the applications in four, 5, 9, and 16 beneath depending on their activities in Japan

(1) Highly Skilled Professional (i) (a); Highly Skilled Professional (ii)
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- Foreign nationals working in research, research guidance, or educational activity at a university equally personnel possessing advanced expertise
  Due east.g., university professors
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- Foreign nationals working in inquiry, research guidance, or education every bit personnel possessing advanced expertise
  East.g., regime bureau or company researchers
(2) Highly Skilled Professional (i) (b); Highly Skilled Professional (ii)
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- Foreign nationals working at a Japanese business organization for a fixed menses of time as personnel possessing avant-garde expertise; position requires expert skills or knowledge in the fields of natural science or the humanities
  East.chiliad., resident employee of foreign capital company
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- Foreign nationals working as personnel possessing advanced expertise in positions that require skilful skills or cognition in the fields of natural scientific discipline or the humanities
  E.thou., automobile learning technician, marketing professional
(3) Highly Skilled Professional (i) (c), Highly Skilled Professional (ii)
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- Strange nationals working in business concern direction equally personnel possessing advanced expertise
  E.thousand., Representative managing director or director of a company
Professor; Teacher
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- Enquiry guidance or education at a academy
  Eastward.g., academy professors
- Language education at a junior high or high school
  Eastward.g., Language instructors at junior high schools
Artist; Cultural Activities
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- Financially compensated artistic activities
  E.g., composer; lensman
- Artistic or academic activities or research/training in traditional Japanese civilisation or art which is not financially compensated
  Eastward.g., Persons learning tea ceremony or judo
Religious Activities
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- Strange national dispatched from a strange religious organizations for religious activities
  E.thousand., Priest, missionary, etc.
Journalist; Researcher (Transfer); Intra-Company Transferee
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- Journalistic activities based on a contract with a foreign journalism organization
  E.g., newspaper reporters, cameraman-journalists
- Strange nationals working at a Japanese business concern for a stock-still menstruum in a position which requires adept technical skills
  Due east.thou., resident employee of foreign uppercase company
Business Manager
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- Business management
  E.g., Representative director or director of a company
Researcher; Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services; Skilled Labor; Designated Activities (research, etc.); Nursing Care; Designated Activities (Graduate of Japanese university)
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- Financially compensated research activities
  E.thousand., government agency or company researchers
- Strange national working in a position in the fields of natural sciences or humanities that requires skillful skills or cognition, or a position that requires thinking founded in a foreign land's culture
  E.thousand., machine learning technician, marketing professional
- Strange national working in a position that requires skills developed over many years
  East.k., melt of strange cuisine
- Foreign national with certification equally a nursing care worker working in a position of nursing care or nursing care guidance
  Eastward.g., nursing care worker
Entertainment
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- Entertainment
  E.thousand., singer, model
Educatee
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- Studies
  E.grand., international students; Japanese linguistic communication schoolhouse students
Trainee
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- Trainee
  Trainees
Dependent; Designated Activities (Research Activities Family); Designated Activities (EPA Family unit); Designated Activities (Japanese Academy Graduate Family)
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- Foreign national is the dependent of a person possessing a "Cultural Activities" or "Educatee" status of residence who aims to work in Japan
  Due east.g., Dependent of a person staying in Japan on a working visa, etc.
Specified Skilled Worker
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- Specified Skilled Worker (i); Specified Skilled Worker (2)
Technical Intern Training
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- Technical Intern Training
  E.g., Technical intern
Spouse or Kid of a Japanese National; Spouse or Child of a Permanent Resident; Long-Term Resident
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- Married to a Japanese national or permanent resident; resides in Japan based on child-parent human relationship
  E.thousand., Spouse of a Japanese resident, second-generation Japanese descendent, third-generation Japanese descendent
Designated Activities (Stay for Medical Services)
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- Stay for medical services
  E.grand., Patient planning to be hospitalized or their attendant
Condition of residence/purpose of entry besides those to a higher place
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Eastward.thou., Quaternary-generation Japanese descendent, lawyer, md, apprentice sport athlete, etc.