How to apply for a Japanese visa?

Japan is also a scenic spot that many people like to visit. Today, Bian Xiao will talk to you about Japanese visa. This is a problem that everyone will encounter. You must apply for a visa before you go to Japan.

Can I apply for a Japanese visa?

Since Japan opened its individual tourist visa, it has always claimed to lower the standard year by year, but one thing has not changed, that is, it must be guaranteed by a travel agency, and the applicant himself cannot go to the embassy to send the visa. Judging from the development of Japanese visas in recent years, the visa policies of Europe, America and Canada are far from being so close to the people.

As a developed country in Asia, many people think that as long as they have been to South Korea and have visas from several developed countries in Europe and America, they can easily apply for a visa to Japan. However, this is not the case. Because there are more and more people stranded in Japan in recent years, individual tourist visas to Japan have become more stringent. Let's take a look at what problems should be paid attention to when applying for a Japanese visa.

What should I pay attention to in different types of Japanese visas?

The types of Japanese visas are mainly divided into: tourist visas, business visas, visiting relatives visas, work visas, study visas and so on. This paper mainly introduces the Japanese tourist visa, which is suitable for tourists. Visa types are divided into three-month individual single tourist visa, three-year multiple-entry visa and five-year multiple-entry visa.

One-way round trip visa

At present, Japan's single round-trip visa needs to be handled through a travel agency designated by the embassy or consulate. As long as sufficient application materials (especially qualified asset certificates and bank accounts) are prepared according to the requirements of travel agencies, they will generally not be rejected. In addition, a single round-trip visa is a stepping stone to a three-year multiple round-trip visa! Don't believe it? Look down!

Three-year multiple entry visa

As long as you have been to Japan in the past three years with a short-term visa (such as a group sightseeing visa or an individual single round-trip visa) and your annual income has reached 6,543,800+or above, or you have never been to Japan but your annual income has reached 200,000 or above, you meet the entry requirements of the application. However, there are also the following requirements for issuing a three-year multiple-entry visa:

When you enter Japan for the first time after applying for a visa, you must include Okinawa Prefecture or one of the three northeastern counties (Iwate Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture) in your itinerary and stay there for at least one night. Although it is not required to enter and leave the above four counties, you need to submit the travel itinerary and accommodation reservation form as proof when applying. After returning to China, you need to submit the accommodation certificate issued by the local hotel to the embassy or consulate before the visa can be officially activated;

Tips: A three-year multiple-entry visa is valid for three years, and the maximum stay time is 30 days each time. However, the longest stay for the first entry is still 15 days, and the longest stay period of 30 days can only be enjoyed after the three-year multiple-entry visa is activated. The applicant's spouse and minor children can apply together even if their income does not meet the requirements, and one person can stay in Japan for up to 30 days at a time.

Five-year multiple entry visa

Facts have proved that "high salary" is indeed a passport for high-paying people! Japan's five-year multiple-entry visa is only open to people with an annual income of more than 500,000. As long as you can provide basic application materials and tax proof of the corresponding amount of annual salary, or a running bill marked with salary and bonus on the salary card for at least half a year, you can meet the application requirements and enjoy the following freedoms:

1. There is no requirement for previous travel experience in Japan when applying;

2. After obtaining a visa, there is no limit to the first time to travel to Japan;

3. The visa is valid for 5 years, with a maximum stay of 90 days each time;

4. Like three-year multiple visas, the applicant's spouse and minor children can apply together even if their income does not meet the requirements, and one person can stay in Japan for up to 30 days at a time.

What information do I need to apply for a visa?

Basic materials

1, the original passport, the only material that needs the original for daily endorsement, if you have an old passport, you should also provide it together, and the passport should be valid for more than 6 months;

2. Two 2-inch photos with white background (in recent 6 months, the size is 3.5*4.5 or 4.5 * 4.5);

3, a copy of the ID card, the front and back can be copied on the same piece of paper;

4. A copy of the entire household registration book, starting from the first page of the household registration book, except for blank pages without information;

5. Generally, there is a template in the application form for going to Japan, and you should pay attention to the following points when filling in:

First, the passport category is ordinary, and the purpose of going to Japan is to fill in the travel;

Second, if there is a work unit, fill in the name, address and telephone number of the work unit, and if there are students, fill in the name, address and telephone number of the school;

Three, the application form can be filled out by computer or printed manually, and the signature should be autographed;

6. Personal information processing consent forms usually have templates. Just print them out and sign them.

Economic materials

Conventional single lens:

1. On-the-job personnel: the employment certificate with an annual salary of100000 yuan shall be stamped with the official seal. Nearly a year100000 yuan salary in the run (need to provide a tax bill with the words above 3600 yuan salary in the past year (tax bureau

2. On-the-job personnel: annual salary100000 yuan, employment certificate with official seal, 5W deposit certificate (frozen for more than three months)

3. Freelancer/unemployed: provide 300,000 deposit certificate (frozen for more than three months)

Single travel in Okinawa: The materials are the same as those for regular single travel, but only for entering Okinawa.

Many times in three years:

/kloc-I haven't been to Japan for free travel for 3 years: the employment certificate with an annual salary of 200,000 is stamped with the official seal; A tax bill with an annual salary of more than 200,000 yuan (stamped with a red seal)

I have been to Japan for free travel within 2.3 years: the on-the-job certificate with annual salary of100000 is stamped with the official seal; Annual salary100000 yuan/tax bill above 3600 yuan (stamped with red seal)

PS: For the first time, you must stay in Okinawa and three northeastern counties (Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate) for one night and bring it back to the hotel (three-star or above, the hotel can't give us the check-in certificate, and give it to the consulate to activate multiple visas, otherwise the visa will be invalid.

Many times in five years:

Key materials: employment certificate with annual salary of 500,000 yuan and official seal; The annual salary of 500,000 yuan is above the running water/tax bill/12W (with red seal)

Other materials

1. Hotel air ticket travel itinerary: For multiple entry visas, you need to provide a specific hotel air ticket reservation form and travel itinerary. If there is any change before the visa is issued, it should be explained in time, and then apply to the consulate for change. If there is a single visa hotel ticket reservation form, if not, you need to provide the general hotel ticket and travel itinerary, which can be changed;

2. Property right certificate and real estate license (photocopy/automobile production certificate (photocopy, auxiliary materials, indicating that you have fixed assets in China and will not discard them at will, if any, you'd better provide them;

3, various relationships, husband and wife travel and provide a copy of either party's marriage certificate (you can use an economic material;

When the elderly travel, provide a retirement certificate or a copy of the retirement certificate (the children's economic materials are ok, but they need proof of relationship;

Copies of other birth certificates of the baby (economic materials * * * with parents);

Students also provide student ID card (copy of student ID card or school certificate, parental consent form (also provide proof of relationship with parents, parents' economic materials;

4. Travel alone and provide personal reasons for travel (there are usually templates;

5. If you travel alone but have a colleague, you will not apply for a visa together, and provide a copy of your colleague's passport home page and visa page.

Division of visa areas in Japan

Beijing area: Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu, Henan, Hebei, Hubei, Hunan, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Tibet and Inner Mongolia.

Shanghai: Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi.

Chongqing territory: Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou and Yunnan.

Shenyang area: Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning (except Dalian)

Guangzhou: Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian and Guangxi.

Dalian area: Dalian

Qingdao area: Shandong

Hong Kong: Hong Kong and Macau

Tips: the division of the territorial area is based on the unit of permanent residence. Applicants must live in the consular district of Beijing before they can apply for a visa at the Beijing Embassy. If the passport is issued in a foreign territory, the applicant living in Beijing territory must provide the original temporary residence permit of Beijing territory.

What materials should I provide for multiple visa activation in three/five years?

More than three years.

You need to provide a hotel check-in form for staying at least one night in Okinawa or Tohoku Prefecture (Iwate Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, Fukushima Prefecture) (the hotel is required to issue a copy of the original passport home page and a copy of the border seal page when checking out.

More than five years.

It is necessary to provide the original hotel check-in registration form, the first page of passport and the copy of the border cover page of customs clearance.

Tips: In the past, all the materials were provided to the suppliers who applied for visas after you returned to China.

How to find a reliable visa agent?

Japanese visa, I suggest you look at the list of travel agencies recommended by the Japanese Embassy in China first. The travel agencies in this list are all travel agencies that have the right to issue visas in Japan. If they are not on the list, they certainly have no right to issue visas!

Of course, Japanese visas for hornet's nest are provided by the most qualified and authoritative suppliers, and bees can buy them with confidence!

The following are recommended respectively: reliable daily signing agents in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Dalian and Qingdao.

Problems encountered in the process of visa application

Q: What if there is insufficient running water when signing tax bills in Japan?

A: If the ordinary visa lacks running water, it can be replaced by other fixed assets, such as deposits, houses, cars, etc., which will be recognized by the consulate, or the property certificate of immediate family members can be used. When using the property certificate of immediate family members to apply for multiple visas for three years and five years, the visa issuance rate will be increased to recommend peers for the first time.

Q: What if there is no tax bill for three years and five years? Running water is not in the form of wages and bonuses. What should I do for the self-employed

A: Three-year visa: Also known as Okinawa visa, the feature is that after obtaining this visa, you must include Okinawa in the first trip, stay for more than one night, get the accommodation certificate, and then come back to cancel the activation. If you have been to Japan in the past three years, you need to provide an annual salary of 654.38+ 10,000. If you haven't been to Japan in the past three years, you need to provide an annual salary of more than 200 thousand. If you can't provide an annual salary, you need to use a deposit certificate instead. At the same time, no matter whether you provide running water or deposit certificate, you need to provide the on-the-job certificate of the unit, and the annual salary or above needs to meet the requirements.

Q: Many people apply for it many times in five years, start their own companies, and then have no tax bills, but many large deposits have high income. How to deal with it?

A: A five-year multiple visa can be understood as a VIP high-end visa. If I start my own company or am a shareholder of an enterprise, I can provide a large deposit certificate in my name, which needs more than 500,000 yuan, and provide a work certificate.

Do I need a visa to transfer in Japan?

transit visa

Generally speaking, whether you can transfer to other countries through Japan International Airport depends on the specific situation.

If you have a connecting ticket and your luggage goes straight to your final destination, or if you don't have a connecting ticket but you don't have checked luggage, you can choose not to leave the international transit zone when you transfer in Japan. In this case, travelers don't need to go through the entry formalities, so they don't need a visa.

However, there are exceptions to the above situation. Among all ports of entry in Japan, except Haneda Airport and Kansai Airport, popular airports such as Narita Airport, Central Airport, Fukuoka Airport and Naha Airport will be closed in the middle of the night, and transit passengers are prohibited from staying overnight in the waiting hall. At this time, the only choice for travelers is to leave the airport and find another place to stay.

Therefore, even if a traveler holds a joint ticket, if the flight interval is long and he needs to stay overnight, and the airport is not open 24 hours, then he must enter Japan, that is to say, he must apply for an entry/transit visa. Otherwise, travelers will be arranged by the security company to spend the night in the designated hotel, and will be escorted by the security company until they check in and leave, during which they cannot leave the hotel. All expenses are borne by travelers.

Dock pass (permission to land at the port)

Many people think that if you need a visa to transit Japan, why not apply for ShorePass when you land? Actually, ShorePass is different from landing visa. Travelers have the right to apply, and Japan also has the right to refuse. Under special circumstances, only those who meet the following conditions can apply:

1. If you have a ticket, you need to stay overnight, but you need to enter and leave the same airport within 72 hours (72 hours is only the maximum time allowed in theory. In practice, entry-exit inspectors may ask airlines to check whether there is an earlier flight to verify whether travelers need to stay overnight;

2. The destination is the United States, Canada, Australia or New Zealand, and the destination country holds a valid visa, or these countries leave for China;

3. Hold an accommodation reservation form of a hotel near the airport (it must be near the airport;

4. apply for ShorePass for the first time (if you have already applied, you are likely to be rejected for the second time.

According to several passengers, some Japanese international airports have closed the application for ShorePass, and there are certain risks in applying for ShorePass. The review of ShorePass has become harsh, and many travelers' applications have been rejected. Therefore, it is best for passengers to know the actual situation of the transfer airport before departure and choose carefully.

Short-term transit visa

If passengers want to avoid the risk of being repatriated when transferring in Japan, or want to walk in the transfer city, the safest thing is to apply for a Japanese transit visa.

You can get a transit visa valid for 3 months and the longest stay time is 15 days. After arriving in Japan, you can enter and leave the airport and play in Japan. However, individual embassies and consulates may think that entry and exit from different airports do not meet the application requirements and need to apply for ordinary tourist visas. So the final result is subject to the feedback from the embassy or consulate.

Tips: In fact, the above can be simply understood as: you must apply for a transit visa when you leave the airport, and you don't have to apply if you don't leave the airport. If you have to stay under special circumstances, it is more reliable to sign the bill, at least there will be no mistakes!