It is indeed easier for many people to apply for a Japanese visa, because the visa conditions are relaxed year by year, but some hard conditions are still required, such as annual income, academic qualifications and household registration requirements. However, after the visa requirements were relaxed again this year, Starting from May 17, 2017, another wave of strict regulations began. Let me share with you the latest Japanese visa news.

In the past few days, there has been a lot of news about the tightening of Japanese visa application materials. Now, this news has been confirmed, according to the latest news released by the Japanese Visa Express official Weibo.

Starting from May 17, 2020, Japan’s three-year multiple-entry visa application materials have become stricter. All applicants submitting three-year multiple-entry visa must provide authentic air tickets and hotel reservations.

New Japanese visa policy regulations in 2019

1. Simplified materials are subject to restrictions! All materials must be submitted to the embassy for review.

2. Key requirements for air tickets and accommodation, real travel information must be provided!

3. Air tickets: electronic ticket (must have a six-digit reservation number;

4. Hotel: Everyone must provide it (everyone in a family of three must provide it, regardless of adults and children, and it must be reflected. In addition, the itinerary requirements related to Japan’s three-year visa

Notes:

Although there is no clear announcement on the official website of the Japanese Embassy, ??various travel agencies have been notified that Japanese three-year multiple visas issued under the new policy must travel once within 3 months from the effective date of the visa. , otherwise the visa will be invalid!!!

After becoming more stringent, the difficulty of applying for a three-year return visa has become more difficult than before, so friends who want to go to Japan in the near future must pay attention to these objective changes in order to be more cautious Successfully passed the three-year visa.

How to apply for a Japanese visa? What are the specific differences between various types of visas?

Japanese visa application

1. Japanese visa. Category:

(1 The personal tourist visa for Chinese residents to Japan is the independent travel visa, which is valid for 90 days and has a maximum stay of 15 days. This is the type of visa for general travel in Japan;

< p>(2 Group tourist visa for Chinese residents to Japan (i.e. 'group tour');

(3 Three-year multiple-entry visa;

A type of individual tourist visa, you can If used multiple times within the validity period of 3 years, the issuing targets are:

1. "Persons and their family members with sufficient financial ability"

2. "Have used short-term visas in the past 3 years "Persons and their family members who are going to Japan and have certain financial ability", and their first trip to Japan includes Okinawa Prefecture or any one of the three northeastern prefectures (Iwate Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, and Fukushima Prefecture), that is, , when tourists applying for a three-year multiple-visa visa enter Japan, their first stop must be to fly to Okinawa or the three northeastern prefectures and stay for at least one night before they can go to other cities in Japan;

(4 Five-year multiple-entry visa;

It can be used multiple times within the five-year validity period. It is issued to: "people with considerable high income and their families". Different from the above (3), the purpose of going to Japan is There are no restrictions on the location.

(The difference between three-year multiple visa and five-year multiple visa) 2. Application methods:

Japan does not support individuals. To apply for a visa, you must go through a qualified travel agency or agency;

3. Consular District Attribution:

First of all, you must clarify the consular district of the Japanese Consulate to which you belong and the Japanese visa requirements for each place. They are all different!

Beijing consular district: Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu, Henan, Hebei, Hubei, Hunan, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Dalian;

Shanghai consular district: Shanghai, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi;

Guangzhou consular district: Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian, Guangxi;

Shenyang consular district: Liaoning (except Liaoning Dalian, Jilin, Heilongjiang;

Chongqing consular district: Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan;

Qingdao consular district: Shandong Province;

Hong Kong consular district: Hong Kong and Macau

For office workers to apply for a daily visa, it depends on where they work and whether they have a local work permit:

If your household registration is not in Beijing, but you have worked in Beijing for a long time and have a Beijing residence permit, you must register your residence. Card (Beijing residence card, or social security certificate for more than 1 year) (one of the three types), showing employment certificate and business license for working in Beijing, you can apply for a visa directly from Beijing.

4. Free travel visa information:

1. Original passport, the passport must be valid for more than 6 months;

Passport requirements: valid for six months, For example, if you go to Japan on June 1st and return to Beijing on June 6th, when you send the visa, you need to check the validity period of the passport to see if there are more than 6 months left before June 6th (counted from the date of return;

2. Two 2-inch color photos with white background (taken within the past 6 months, the size is 3.5*4.5 or 4.5*4.5);

3. Proof of household registration and kinship relationship

① ID card:

Copy the front and back on a piece of A4 paper. This is not difficult. The ID card cannot be expired.

② Household register:

Copy of the household register for the whole family, one copy for each page. If the husband and wife are not in the same household register, please provide their respective household registers together. Pay attention to what is called a change page (that is, there is a page on the back) Changes stamped with a small seal are called change pages

③Proof of relationship:

If you have immediate family members traveling with you (parents, spouse, children), if the kinship relationship cannot be reflected in the information, you need to provide it as well. Original certificate of relationship or notarized certificate of kinship issued by the police station.

Marriage certificate. Note: A copy of the marriage certificate is only required if the couple is traveling together.

1. If married, provide a copy of the marriage certificate. A copy of the divorce certificate;

2. If divorced, provide a copy of the divorce certificate;

3. If lost, please provide the original marriage certificate issued by the Civil Affairs Bureau or the police station and stamp it.

4. Requirements for proof of employment

Print on the company’s official letterhead paper, with all content in Chinese, and stamped with the company’s red seal. Note: The annual income in the proof of employment must be 100,000 yuan. Yuan or more!

5. Proof of personal assets

Generally, one of the following eight conditions can be met: Each travel agency has different requirements

A. Nearly Original personal income tax slip for the past 12 months (approximately 3,600 yuan paid in the past year (approximately 3,600 yuan paid in the past year)) Bonus and other words (in compliance with the provision of salary slips;

C. Social security: Social security printout (with social security seal + social security website, password, user name) (in compliance with the provision of proof of employment of 100,000 yuan + social insurance policy);

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D. I have certificates of fixed assets such as cars, real estate, stocks, funds, financial management, and deposits in my name (if required, provide proof of employment of 100,000 yuan + certificate of fixed assets;

E. Registration Lawyers, accountants, doctors, teachers, architects, tasters and other relevant staff holding nationally recognized certificates must register online and practice for more than two years (available online and pass the annual review (in compliance with the requirement to provide proof of employment of 100,000 yuan + Copy of qualification certificate;

F. For civil servants holding section-level and above positions (eligible to provide proof of employment of 100,000 yuan;

G. Have been to developed countries in Europe and the United States within five years, and have Visa page, individual visa/group visa/business visa are all acceptable (if applicable, proof of employment of 100,000 yuan is provided;

H. Those who have a record of independent travel in Japan within three years and have no bad records in Japan (If applicable, provide proof of employment of 100,000 yuan;

Freelancing: Write a description of freelance income (no fixed format + proof of deposit of 300,000 yuan).

6. Application form for traveling to Japan:

7. Personal information processing consent form, usually with a template, printed out and signed by hand;

18 The personal information processing consent form for minors under the age of 1 must be signed by both their parents. The signature must be the name of the child and the names of both parents and indicate the signature.

Note: If multiple people are traveling together and apply for visas at the same time, you can only fill in one consent form for personal information processing. Please print the names of all applicants on this consent form and mark each name in the form. The back must be handwritten and signed by me.

8. Three-year/five-year multiple-visit visa

Three-year multiple-visit visa

Required documents from Okinawa or the three northeastern prefectures (Iwate Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, Hotel check-in form for at least one night in Fukushima Prefecture (when checking out, ask the hotel to issue the original, a copy of the first page of your passport, and a copy of the border stamp page.

Multiple times within five years

You need to provide the original hotel check-in form, a copy of the first page of your passport, and a copy of the customs clearance stamp page.

Tips: Just provide all the previous information to the supplier who handles the visa for you after returning to your country.

9. Air tickets and hotel reservations, if any, are also provided.

Notes

If you use a gold card to simplify the process, please submit 2 color copies of your credit card gold card (copy the front and back on a piece of A4 paper; the credit card must have a gold card , GOLD, Platinum, etc. (without these words cannot be accepted; the back of the credit card needs to be signed by the person.

As for the deposit, this is actually a requirement of the travel agency. To ensure that you can return to your country on time, try to choose a travel agency that provides guarantees.< /p>

Special groups:

Retired persons: If the applicant is a retired person, a copy of the retirement certificate is required, and there is no need to provide proof of employment and business license.

Students: If you are a student, you need to provide a copy of your student ID or proof of enrollment, proof of employment of your parents, business license, real estate, and car ownership.

Unemployed: If the applicant does not have an employer, he/she needs to provide proof of neighborhood committee. ★About college students applying for visas

Starting from January 1, 2020, undergraduates, postgraduates, and students who have graduated within 3 years of the 1,243 universities affiliated to the Ministry of Education of China will provide student status certificates from the Xuexin website when applying for a visa to Japan. That’s it, you don’t need to provide proof of assets.

The latest list of national undergraduate colleges is announced by the Ministry of Education.

Please check the official website of the Ministry of Education for the detailed list.

It said that the visa is ready. Next comes the itinerary:

The cherry blossom season in Japan is coming to an end, and those who haven’t seen it yet have to wait until next year.

However, Japan has wonderful things all year round. The curtain call of the cherry blossom season has also kicked off the #JapanFireworks Display in early summer!

The Japanese are serious about setting off fireworks. The whole country, throughout the summer, has organized and organized Let’s set off fireworks together in a disciplined manner. Apart from Japan, no other country does this.

(Put on your yukata, wear clogs, watch the fireworks, go to the garden party, and eat octopus balls, grilled squid, etc. Marshmallows, fishing for goldfish, throwing darts, and drawing lots, you can try all those classic scenes from Japanese dramas and anime during the Japanese Fireworks Festival

(Yamashita Tomohisa once said: "All memories about summer , that is, yukata, fireworks and Nagasawa Masami. "In the romantic impression, how many confessions and beautiful moments are all frozen under this gorgeous fireworks? The picture Lifeshine

is like a map of cherry blossoms. The Fireworks Festival also has a map that can be checked by region and time. It is recommended that you can check it by region or date. It is comprehensive and convenient.

(Note: The map and date are for the year, and the year version has not been released yet. However, the time of year generally does not change. For your reference, they are concentrated in July, August, September, and October, especially in August, where there are fireworks displays almost every day.