"Specified Skilled Worker" Visa
"Specified Skilled Worker" visa is categorized in Tier II of Group I defined in Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act ("ICRRA", hereafter).
I. Granted Activities
A. Specified Skilled Labor (i)
activities of business under designated contracts with domestic public or private institution by the minister of justice in accordance with "clause 1 to 4, article 2-5" of Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act(as the same hereafter), in designated field of industries as a field with difficulty of recruitment by the minister of justice(as the same, hereafter) requiring skills which are also need considerable knowledge or experiences specified by regulations also appointed by the minister of justice
* Fourteen fields are currently designated as follows:
Nursing Care, Cleaning of Building, Raw Materials & Shapes, Manufacturing of Industrial Machines, Electric & Electronic Information, Construction, Shipbuilding & Shipboard, Maintenance of Automobiles, Airline, Hotel & Lodge, Agriculture, Fishery, Manufacturing of Beverages, Food Service
B. Specified Skilled Labor (ii)
activities of business under designated employment contracts with domestic public or private institution by the minister of justice, in designated field of industries by regulations enacted by the ministry of justice, requiring experienced skills specified by regulations enacted by the ministry of justice
* Two fields are currently designated as follows:
Construction, Shipbuilding & Shipboard
II. Granted Period of Stay
A. Specified Skilled Labor (i)
1 year, 6 months or 4 months, can be extended up to five years in total
B. Specified Skilled Labor (ii)
3 years, 1 years, or 6 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 "Specified Skilled labor" is categorized in Tier I of Group II:
C-1. Specified Skilled Labor (i)
a) Applied activities are not false.
b) Applied activities coincide with activities defined for each visa in ICRRA.
c) The employment contract between the applicant & the accepting institution should be made in accordance with "clause 1&2, article 2-5" of ICRRA.
d) The public or private institution in Japan, as a counterparty of the contract, should correspond to "clause 3, except for item 2, & claus4, article 2-5" of ICRRA.
e) The specified skilled worker support plan for the applicant should correspond to "clause 6 & clause 7, article 2-5" of ICRRA.
f) The applicant should correspond to each of the following, provide that, if the applicant has completed the "Technical Trainee (ii)" program with good results, and the skills got from the "Technical Trainee (ii)" program should have relations with the required skills for the activities which the applicant is willing to be engaged in, the applicant should not be required to correspond to 3 or 4:
1. The applicant should be 18 years old or older.
2. The applicant should be in a condition of good health.
3. The applicant should be certified by an examination or any other method of evaluation to have experienced skills necessary to the labor to be engaged in.
4. The applicant should be certified by an examination or any other method of evaluation to have Japanese language ability necessary to life in Japan and to the labor to be engaged in.
5. The applicant should carry a passport issued by the designated foreign government or the designated regional authority by notices of the minister of justice, as it should be cooperative to execution of order of forced leave.
6. if the applicant has stayed in Japan under a visa status of "Specified Skill Worker (i)", the total terms of the stay should not exceed five years.
g) The monetary assets or any other properties held by the applicant, its spouse, a lineal relative, a relative who has lived together with the applicant or any other who has close social relationship with the applicant, should not be controlled in relations to activities in Japan of the applicant under the specified skill worker contract, with whatever formal reasons as guarantee deposit or any other, and also any contract which defines penalties on defaults in the specified skill worker contract or which defines transfer of money or any other assets, has not been made or should not been made.
h) If the applicant had paid expenses to a foreign institution for commission of proposal of the specified skilled worker contract or preparation of activities of "Specified Skilled Worker" defined by ICRRA, the applicant should have agreed with the foreign institution after having fully understood the total amount and the breakdown.
i) If the country or the region, which the applicant lives or the citizenship of which the applicant holds, has any procedure to be complied, the procedure should have been processed.
k) The applicant should have agreed on regularly paid expenses as dining, housing or any other title, after having fully understood the contents of dining, housing or other benefits provided as consideration of the expenses, the amounts of the expenses should be adequate like actual expenses and the details of the expensed should be indicated in documents.
l) If the applicant is willing to be engaged in activities in the designated industrial field defined by a notice of the minister of justice, the applicant should correspond to criteria which should be regulated by a notice of a minister who govern the industrial field after discussed with the minister of justice and considering special circumstances of the industrial field.
m) If the country or the region, which the applicant lives or the citizenship of which the applicant holds, has any procedure to be complied, the procedure should have been processed.
C-2. Specified Skilled Labor (ii)
a) Applied activities are not false.
b) Applied activities coincide with activities defined for each visa in ICRRA.
c) The employment contract between the applicant & the accepting institution should be made in accordance with "clause 1&2, article 2-5" of ICRRA.
d) The public or private institution in Japan, as a counterparty of the contract, should correspond to "clause 3, except for item 2, & claus4, article 2-5" of ICRRA.
e) The applicant should correspond to each of the following:
1. The applicant should be 18 years old or older
2. The applicant should be in a condition of good health
3. The applicant should be certified by an examination or any other method of evaluation to have experienced skills necessary to the labor to be engaged in
4. The applicant should carry a passport issued by the designated foreign government or the designated regional authority by notices of the minister of justice, as it should be cooperative to execution of order of forced leave.
f) The monetary assets or any other properties held by the applicant, its spouse, a lineal relative, a relative who has lived together with the applicant or any other who has close social relationship with the applicant, should not be controlled in relations to activities in Japan of the applicant under the specified skill worker contract, with whatever formal reasons as guarantee deposit or any other, and also any contract which defines penalties on defaults in the specified skill worker contract or which defines transfer of money or any other assets, has not been made or should not been made.
g) If the applicant had paid expenses to a foreign institution for commission of proposal of the specified skilled worker contract or preparation of activities of "Specified Skilled Worker" defined by ICRRA, the applicant should have agreed with the foreign institution after having fully understood the total amount and the breakdown.
h) If the country or the region, which the applicant lives or the citizenship of which the applicant holds, has any procedure to be complied, the procedure should have been processed.
i) The applicant should have agreed on regularly paid expenses as dining, housing or any other title, after having fully understood the contents of dining, housing or other benefits provided as consideration of the expenses, the amounts of the expenses should be adequate like actual expenses and the details of the expensed should be indicated in documents.
j) If the applicant has stayed in Japan under a visa status " Technical Trainee", it can be admitted that the applicant should make efforts to transfer the skills and others obtained, well-studied or experienced in Japan through the activities as the status to the home country.
k) If the applicant is willing to be engaged in activities in the designated industrial field defined by a notice of the minister of justice, the applicant should correspond to criteria which should be regulated by a notice of a minister who govern the industrial field after discussed with the minister of justice and considering special circumstances of the industrial field.
IV. Documents Required to Apply for a Certificate of Eligibility or Change of Visa
A-1. Specified Skilled Worker (i)
a) documents clarifying the summary of the accepting organization
b) documents certifying the contents, the term, the position and the wages of the activities
c) documents on supports from the accepting organization to the applicant
d) materials certifying the ability of Japanese language
e) materials certifying skills on the activities in which the applicant is willing to be engaged
f) a summary of the mediation, if the employment contract was mediated
g) documents certifying the healthiness of the applicant
A-2. Specified Skilled Labor (ii)
a) documents clarifying the summary of the accepting organization
b) documents certifying the contents, the term, the position and the wages of the activities
c) materials certifying skills on the activities in which the applicant is willing to be engaged
d) a summary of the mediation, if the employment contract was mediated
e) documents certifying the healthiness of the applicant
V. Documents Required to Apply for Extension of Visa
A. documents certifying the contents, the term and the position of the activities
B. certificates on annual incomes and paid taxes
C. documents on supports from the accepting organization to the applicant, if applying for "Specified Skilled Worker (i)" visa
D. documents certifying participating with social insurances and status of paying pension insurances and health insurances.
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