CuddleCub83

@Urban_Moogle @gaijinthoughts Failing to pay is quite easy. Not everyone is part of the shakai hoken system, so paying is left up to the individual. Thus missing payments and the like can happen easily.

@gaijinthoughts How do you even fail to pay? I mean, if you left to retrain and got an official exemption since you were again a student, which I don't think this is related to this, that's one thing, but not paying at all?

So it begins…. For permanent residents with unpaid taxes or social insurance premiums, revocation of permanent residency is explicitly listed as a possible consequence in the draft of new immigration guidelines. sankei.com/article/202607…

@gaijinthoughts @Msamalam Naturalized citizens are naturalized and have become Japanese, which means they have to be treated the same as other Japanese nationals according to the constitution.

@Msamalam I’m mostly fine with this. In the USA or other developed countries, you can lose your PR if you commit crimes. My only concern is that it’s a slippery slope and they will chip away more at the rights of PR holders and naturalized citizens.

I disagreed with your hot take on laziness, gave examples on how your opinion is wrong and/or misguided, you doubled-down on being an asshole, so I returned in kind. People who are here longer than 10 years don’t automatically qualify for PR; if you didn’t get a 3 year visa at least twice in a row, you would get turned down. A lot of people were stuck on 1 year visas for a very long time. I only recently was mostly eligible, and have been preparing for the last year or so trying to get everything in order to apply, and then this change happened. So your analysis and “hot take” is just plain misinformed. Maybe pull your head out your ass for a second and realize that not everyone is in the same situation as you where they’re able to apply right out of the gate at the 10 year mark.

@CuddleCub83 @yuyuyu2525357 Classic social media moment. You can’t find a way to disagree so just let your feelings dictate your response instead.

I’m not a big fan of the new permanent residency changes, but I’m seeing people who have been here 15+ years saying they’ll be impacted. Why no application before now? If they were never going to apply, nothing changes. I got mine in when changes began. Why wait if you want?

@bunburyoudoujp I worked for Canon in their R&D dept. Based on the new rules, I wouldn’t make enough to qualify. I was the lead of my department, and I was still having trouble scraping by. So sorry, salaries across the board for many foreign nationals are low.

There is no one size fits all for what industry you should work in. It’s more about what industries you should avoid. I don’t work in IT (it’s not my specialty). But I never see IT guys complaining about salaries in Japan. All the salary complaints seem to be coming from career ALTs and people in the anime industry. Both of these positions are saturated with people who will accept the low salaries. Working as an ALT is fine as long as you accept it is a way to get your foot in the door. Anime industry…can’t say I’ve come across a good reason to work in that industry.

@katakana_kurisu @yuyuyu2525357 Yeah…I think this is a case of fucking retard syndrome. You should prolly get that looked at.

@CuddleCub83 @yuyuyu2525357 If you haven’t been here 10+ years already then my post isn’t aimed at you. It’s aimed at people who ignored the easy time to apply and are now complaining about a problem they made for themselves by being lazy.

@katakana_kurisu You applied on the points system and you paid an immigration lawyer to do everything. Glad you had the money to do that; not all of us do. Nor are we eligible to apply on the points system either. It’s not a case of lazy, you arrogant asshole.

@CuddleCub83 If someone was here for 10 years before these rules changes, it was always easy. And yea, I did make an essay. I also had evidence to share around voluntary work, not that it’s any of your business.

These were just announced, after the fee hike, language requirement, and 5-year visa requirement was added. I was preparing to do mine (I don’t qualify to do the point system) for next year, as I’ve been saving up to do so, and also getting all the paperwork and the like ready. Not everyone is eligible for the point system route, and I have a feeling that a lot of those who have been here long term are in the same boat.

@yuyuyu2525357 It is harsh, yes. Whether accidentally or intentionally, it is going to negatively impact people who have done nothing wrong other than have a low salary. But my irk is long-term residents complaining on social media after they didn’t apply before these impediments were added.

Why? Here are some reasons: 1) many companies will only hire foreign nationals on a contract basis. As they are contract employees, they don’t have a track to becoming permanent employees, which have raises and promotions built in. 2) while there has been a law to help prevent this from happening, many companies have instituted contract renewal limits so that they can get around the “five year rule”. 3) while some places will hire foreign nationals into special job positions, these are usually at a fixed salary as they are a special role, and don’t receive raises indexed to inflation 4) unless you live in a major center like Tokyo or Osaka, the options for jobs for foreign nationals is pretty limited; meaning they are even worse than what I’ve described above. There are always exceptions to the rules, and the above is a generalization, but from my experience of living in Japan, in many different locations, and working in both the public and private sectors, they hold fairly true. Not only for myself, but to many foreign nationals that I’ve spoken with. To be clear: I don’t believe that I am OWED PR. It is something that is earned, and is a privilege. What I don’t like is that when I’ve devoted half of my life to a country and it’s promotion, and have worked towards applying for PR, that they’ve moved the goalpost once again, basically telling me that everything I’ve worked hard to achieve is basically worth nothing. It just hurts.

I’m 100% against Japan’s proposed tightening of permanent residency requirements. But after reading dozens of comments from foreign residents who’ve lived there for 10–20 years and are now panicking, it’s also made me reflect. Many seem to have remained in low-wage, entry-level jobs for decades. I’m not saying this to judge anyone, but it does raise a difficult question: what are we actually building for ourselves if that’s where we still are after all those years? #japan #prvisa

@JackPosobiec Then he and his cronies should prolly just start walking into jail then….

Melania Trump: "My husband would like to have a country where all of the people can walk down the street and not be harassed or murdered or women raped"

@Karai_Dan @harrynzmi @engardey @gaijinthoughts Let me guess, with a Japanese co-signer? Or because you have a Japanese spouse? Seriously, how are you able to without that otherwise?

@CuddleCub83 @harrynzmi @engardey @gaijinthoughts Well, it’s not true. Foreigners without PR can absolutely get loans.

Lots of heartbreak on here today. To the foreigners in Japan who are ready to answer: What will you do now that the permanent residency rules have changed?

That all depends on where you’re from and what agreements your home country and Japan has. For Canada, 100% gets transferred back to Canada to be used for a Canadian pension. So there is no loss there. However, once you’ve paid into the pension system here for 20 years, it gets locked in, so you are unable to take any of it out and it has to be taken in Japan. Which means you need a Japanese bank account, which also means you’ll need residency as banks lock accounts if your visa has expired.

I get goal of the PR rules. But pension refund system is unfair: departing foreigners get a partial refund of ~60 mths of *their* contributions. Japan pockets the employer share + anything beyond 5 yrs. 100% refund is fair fix. 🇯🇵

For the “humanities” visa, the minimum wage requirement is 3mil yen per year, which is working poor in a large part of the country so, I get it but at the same time, I’ve had to fight to get companies to pay at least that. Japanese companies lowball foreign talent because they know they can get away with it.

Them making the salary requirements for PR be above the national average with the underlying reasoning of not being a financial burden is a strange way of admitting the average Japanese wages are too low to support a regular life.

@Karai_Dan @harrynzmi @engardey @gaijinthoughts Every bank I have talked to (over 20 at this point) has said they will not give loans to foreign nationals unless they have PR. This includes mortgages, car loans, and in many cases, even credit cards. Where is the fabrication?

@harrynzmi @engardey @gaijinthoughts Completely fabricated statement you’ve just made.

@illusionofease In order to make enough to beat the threshold, you need to make between 450,000 to 500,000 yen per month. I’m not sure how the 30 year projected pension thing will work though :(

How is this anything other than a doom loop based on a delusional sense of the attractiveness of Japan to foreigners? Nobody skilled will be moving here for the salaries offered, and nobody who loves Japan enough to work long-term for Japanese wages will ever make enough to stay.

Some people have been denied outright when they tried to apply, while others were referred to their local politician about it. I was curious if someone had outright told you no or not. The main hurdle for two Japanese nationals being the Koseki system doesn’t support it. As a foreign national, you don’t have a Koseki and thus could be treated as an exception (as they do with hetero couples where one is a foreign national). That’s why I asked.

@CuddleCub83 @RaraSensei I have never asked any individual person or organization if a thing I know is not legally possible is possible. I’m not sure why I would. we don’t have the time/money/energy to engage in a years-long court battle like this couple had to. call4.jp/storyen/?p=686

Every person who is suggesting people “just marry a Japanese person” to secure visa/residency in Japan in light of these rules is just showing how little they know about how any of this works. Also, the people suggesting these changes are to encourage such marriages????

@RaraSensei @canicuIa It’s a little more complicated and nuanced than that. I was asking the question specifically because there has been talks of exceptions as of late and I was wondering where the information was from. No need to be rude about it.

@CuddleCub83 @canicuIa The law

@canicuIa @RaraSensei I’m really not trying to be a dick here; I’m just trying to see what’s happening. Who told you that you couldn’t? Was it the ward office/city hall? Or was it somewhere else?

@CuddleCub83 @RaraSensei it’s expressly impossible if one partner is a Japanese national unfortunately.

@teststerone07 めちゃくちゃエロいなぁ🥴🥵

Not trying to be a dick….Have you tried to see if it’s possible? There have been gay couples who were married abroad that were able to get spousal visas here. They were both foreign nationals, and by UN law, Japan has to recognize foreign marriages. That said, with one of you being a Japanese national, it would have to be challenged in court (most likely)….

@CuddleCub83 @RaraSensei this. I AM married to a Japanese person! …in America. and our marriage doesn’t count for shit here. so now I have no hope for a spouse visa (because let’s be real, marriage equality ain’t happening here any time soon) AND no hope for PR. love it.