"Skilled Labor" Visa
"Skilled Labor" visa is categorized in Tier II of Group I defined in Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act ("ICRRA", hereafter).
I. Granted Activities
activities of business under contracts with public or private institution in Japan, which requires experienced skills on special fields of industry
II. Granted Period of Stay
5 years, 3 years, 1 year or 3 months
III. Conditions to be Permitted
A. Applied activities are not false.
B. Applied activities coincide with activities defined for each visa in ICRRA.
It is also required to meet the followings, or so called " Criteria of Permits for Landing" as "Medical Care" is categorized in Tier II of Group I:
A. The applicant should correspond to one of the following and should receive the same wages or more as a Japanese can receive:
a) The applicant should be engaged in business requiring skills on cooking or food making developed in foreign countries and unique in Japan and should correspond to one of the below, except for corresponding to "i)":
1. The applicant should have experienced business on the skills for ten years or more, including terms of majoring subjects of the cooking or food making in a foreign educational institution.
2. The applicant should meet "(c)-1, section 5-A, first division" of Supplement of Agreement on Alliance between Japan and Kingdom of Thailand.
b) The applicant should have experienced business of skills on architecture or civil engineering in the overseas for ten years or more, including terms of majoring subjects on the skills in a foreign educational institution.
If the applicant has been instructed by a foreign engineer who had the career of the business requiring the skills of ten years or more, the term of the business experience of the applicant can be five year or more.
The applicant also should be engaged in the business requiring the skills.
c) The applicant should have experienced business of skills on production or repairment peculiar in the overseas for ten years or more, including terms of majoring subjects on the skills in a foreign educational institution.
The applicant also should be engaged in the business requiring the skills.
d) The applicant should have experienced business of skills on processing of jewels, noble metals or furs for ten years or more, including terms of majoring subjects on the processing in a foreign educational institution.
The applicant also should be engaged in the business requiring the skills.
e) The applicant should have experienced business of skills on training animals for ten years or more, including terms of majoring subjects on training animals in a foreign educational institution.
The applicant also should be engaged in the business requiring the skills.
f) The applicant should have experienced business of skills on seafloor drilling for exploration of petroleum or drilling for development of geothermy and geological survey on seafloor for mineral exploration of seafloor, for ten years or more, including terms of majoring subjects on exploration of petroleum or drilling for development of geothermy and geological survey on seafloor for mineral exploration in a foreign educational institution.
The applicant also should be engaged in the business requiring the skills.
g) The applicant should have career of flight for two hundred and fifty hours on skills of control of aircrafts.
The applicant should be engaged in the business as a pilot on aircrafts utilized for air transportation defied in "clause 18, article 2" of Aviation Law.
h) The applicant should have experienced business on instruction of sports for three years, including terms of majoring subjects on instruction of sports in a foreign educational institution and terms of being engaged in the sports with rewards, or should be appointed as the same by a notice of the minister of justice and also be engaged in the business requiring the skills.
Otherwise, the applicant should have participated in an Olympic game, a world championship game or a worldwide athletic competition as an athlete of a sport and also should be engaged in business requiring the skills of instruction of the sport.
i) The applicant should have experienced the business of skills on judgement, evaluation and maintenance on quality of wine or serving wine ("judgement on wine or others", hereafter) for five years or more, including terms of majoring subjects regarding judgement on wine or others in a foreign educational institution, should correspond to one of the below and should be engaged in the business requiring the skill:
1. The applicant should have got an excellent result at a worldwide competition on skills of judgement on wine or others.
2. The applicant should have participated in an international sommelier competition, which restrict that just one participant could participate from one country.
3. The applicant should have obtained a license of judgement on wine or others recognized by the central government of Japan or any other country, a local government in Japan or any other country, the designated license by a notice of the minister of justice or a license recognized by a public or private organization equivalent to a governmental organization.
IV. Documents Required to Apply for a Certificate of Eligibility or Change of Visa
A. a certificate of the accepting institution and a copy of income statements of the accepting institution
B. a material which clarifies the contents of the business of the accepting institution
C. a resume and a public document which certifies the career on the activities and the license
D. a document which certifies the contents, terms, the position and wages of the activities
V. Documents Required to Apply for Extension of Visa
A. a document which certifies the contents, terms and the position of the activities
B. a certificate of annual incomes and paid taxes
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