Marriage and Spouse Visa in Japan
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- The Japanese ways this time talk about an important procedure that we faced to get married and apply for the spouse visa in Japan. We talking about papers, the time, and the cost of the procedure for the visa and the marriage.
This step-by-step guide experience will help you to understand the process and document its needs and takes for the stay in Japan by applying for a spouse visa and get married. I made this video just for the purpose to help others and solve many doubts that I also faced once I come to Japan.
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I wanted to say Thank you so much for making this video. My fiance and I had no idea on the process and we were getting mixed answers. But you guys gave clear explanations that helped calm us and also prepare us for our marriage in 2 weeks ^^♡
+Tokyo Pandita thanks for the feedback and which the best for your marriage and good luck with the application
Well done folks! Good explanation. Actually the Italian bit sounds a bit complex, but still reasonable. The US and sometimes the German admin can be monsters from time to time too. The Japanese marriage is very light touch based on my marriage experience and also on your explanation. I'm Hungarian, so I was also lucky in the sense that getting recognition for our marriage was very easy: only one form and the copy of the passport were needed. Now prepping for a visa status switch.
great video thax for sharing the information and you had funny bloopers at the end very nice do you know if someone with a disablity has to go through the same thing as I have a learning disability :)
Hi Cyber, thanks for the feedback and for your question..
I think you have to mention this on the application, there is a part in the form when they asking this kind of question, from there I don’t know if the process its the same or not....
Sorry, I hope this was helpful for you case and wish you good luck
Thank you for making this video. I’m an American planning to go through this process sometime this year. Appreciate the information!
Beau J Thanks for the feedback and good luck with the application
The Japanese ways I hear a lot that changing from tourist visa to spouse visa in one trip is really hard, and that it’s better to have your spouse apply for the COE on your behalf, then apply for the spouse visa at the Japan Embassy or consulate in your home country. Is this true?
Beau J Hi beau, yes is true I suggest to do that, but in my case when I applied the visa in the immigration office they gave a permission to stay more in case the visa was delaying so in this case I didn’t need to leave the country (but anyway I was just on time for 2 weeks before my 3 months visa expired)
Is a risk, if you can apply the CEO before come to Japan is better
You are right me to I did the same
Hi, thanks for the info. I just wanna ask if where u got the questionnaire that you had to fill out about your relationship? Can it be downloaded on the website? or do we have to go there are get it ourselves? I look forward to hearing from you!
Hi Jean, the only thing I had to do 2 years ago was to show prof of our relationship with 3 pictures if different places, I didn’t had any questionnaire to fill,
So I am not sure if now they changed
@@thejapaneseways2103 I see.. Thanks for the reply..
Congratulations guy's, we planning to go to Japan in Fukuoka to live and work , we have two kids and we hope can get Visa for everyone we not sure if we can do it but we going to try , maybe one day we can meet you guys , good lucky bello
Hi Marcelo, that’s nice, Fukuoka is a beautiful city, well I hope that your plan go week and maybe see you here 😉
Ciao
I am a new subscriber after seeing you on Tino’s video at the Maids bar !
It seems that they were making it difficult for you to marry ! Ate they discouraging foreign marriages, or just ensuring it is not for other reasons ? Your wife has an Australian accent , like Tino’s wife ?
Best wishes for your vlog and your marriage !
Hi Charlotte, thank you for subscribe, I appreciate that.
Some marriage in Japanese are fake, so they try the best to avoid fraud visa for stay in japan.
Yeh😂, I met my wife in Australia so she got a bit of Australia accent.
The Japanese ways ...💕
Lovely story and actually went really quick!
So you could do everything while being on a tourist visa.
In my case now, my work visa is ending and the documents in Germany won't be here in time. So I probably have to go to Korea for a few days. I just wonder immigration doesn't mind if I re-enter the country for the purpose of marriage.
+19andy90x hi Andy, thanks for the comment, I believe it will be fine we also were thinking the same thing If the documents were not ready......
But fortunately we got it on time....
Nice^^ Thank you, I hope it will be fine :)
+19andy90x I hope for you it will be fine, good luck 😉
Hello their!
So I have a question for you two!!
When you came to Japan did you bring any of the documentation with you? Also, when you applied for the visa was it without the COE or With COE. I know the COE is nessasary but I believe there are two options, as I listed before. I plan on doing something similar when I return to Japan.
Also, did you have a ceremony for your wedding or did you do it on a later date once everything was In order with your visa?
Thanks for the very informative video.
Hello Rougeln, I appreciate the comments,
So, when I come to japan I bring the documents from Italy which confirm that I am not married/single on my status,
When I applied for the visa I did with the COE, and about the ceremony we don’t after the visa, but you need to prove with picture that your relationship is true
I hope this info are helpful for you, if you have questions don’t hesitate to ask, I wish you good luck 😉
im married only city hall .is it problem to spouse visa
Hey, I am writing from Italy! This video is very useful since I am planning to get married with my japanese boyfriend who is in Japan now. If I am not wrong, you just need to get married in Japan to ask for the Japanese spouse visa. You don't need to get married also in Italy for it, am I right? You didn't mention any italian marriage certification within the documents required by immigration office.. Thanks!
hey thanks for video, I would like to know
if you got the nationality by marriage in japan ( in case of possible ) , can you still work on getting a visa through work while you have the mariage citizens ?
because let's imagine you're maried for 8 years, and suddenly you divorce and you worked 8years, it would be weird to have to work 10 years from now to get the visa ?
thanks for the answer ! have a great day !!
Hi you two! Nice that it all went so well for you! :)
I'm going to the immigration office in the next few days and it's about filling out these papers now.
And I'm stuck with the financial part ("Method of support"), money is no problem for us, but I don't know what they wanna hear...
So I assume the "Guarantor" would be my wife, but there's an extra field for "supporter" which would be a third party (but not necessary I guess?).
You mentioned that a confirmation document about the income (in my case my wife's) should be added as well, right?
Did you prove also personal savings?
Was the tax document no problem? As you lived in Australia before and my wife was the previous year with me in New Zealand...
Thanks in advance and have a nice day :)
Hello beerus, sorry for the late reply, but I am very busy in this days....
For be supporter, we ask my wife father to be our supporter, for the tax documents I think they should be added as well even if she didn’t pay any taxes because of living overseas, But again I am not an agent so I am talking in base my own experience, hope it went well, thanks for asking anyway
@@thejapaneseways2103 Thanks for your answer! I also asked immigration about this. She is now both guarantor and supporter, we just needed a copy of her current full time working contract and a employment certificate signed by the company. We also added the tax documents (just in case).
Should be fine now, but the waiting game just begun^^
;) good on you, good luck, me too I am in the game as I am waiting for renewal of the spouse visa 🙌
@@thejapaneseways2103 Thank you^^ Renewal is an easier thing, just about getting 1,3 or 5 years^^
Hello, congratulations on your marriage! I can imagine how happy you are, since i'm applying for the same visa next month. I would like to ask some questions if you don't mind.
- From what I read on the Immigration website, one should apply for a COE first before having the visa issued, and it takes from 1 to up to 3 months, but in your case it took 2 weeks as you said. How is that possible?
I've been already twice to Japan to marry at the city hall and then to get the marriage recognised in my country embassy (portugal) so next step will be applying for the visa. I would really save a lot of time and struggle if I could get it in 2 weeks...
Cheers for the new half couple!
Thank you, Julio,
And congratulation to you too.
Yes, True I have been very lucky, What I Can suggest to you if you didn't go to the immigration office yet, you might want to prepare all the photo of your relationship and the I.d. (you can do it in 7eleven) and you wife might need to ask the tax certification in her town hall, so you might want to save some time with the application.
In my case, when I applied they put me in kind of bridge visa, so in the case, if the visa was not ready I didn't need to leave the country...
Then for everyone is different for the time process
Let me know if you have more questions, I hope this was helpful and I wish good luck!
@@thejapaneseways2103 Thank you very much! Grazie! I see. I'll do that and get everything prepared beforehand. It's hard to understand how the process works because there's so much ambiguous information. It really comforts me to know it might be faster this way. Your case was really helpful! Thank you for sharing it. Wishing you a lot of happiness and healthy half babies!
@@julioperestrelo3859 Is pleasure, hope everything it will be fine.......
And maybe we will meet In Japan with our half babies
Very good question. I'm glad you asked. Now I have an answer. I hope all is well with you and your famly.
How long you wait certificate of eligibility?
Hi Dimayaomel, I had my certificate in 3 weeks and after that I had to come back to the immigration office to get my residency card
The Japanese ways, wow its so quickly) Congratulations! Where are you from originally? And where live in Japan?
True is very fast.
I am Italian and in Fukuoka
What about you ?
The Japanese ways . I am from Belarus. Now i move to Estonia to work, because i wait this certificate, to go to my wife in Japan. She from Chiba ken. She apply 7 December, i hope we wait 1 month, but they can make this certificate 3 months🥺
how much effect does your spouse salary affect your application ? I'm asking because my girlfriend's Japanese she wants to get married after graduating University she works right now but it's a part-time job.
Hi Naruto, that’s a good question, more you girlfriend earn and better it is, but she can have someone from her family to guarantee for both of you in case of support,
Hope this is helpful and good luck
Hi! question here, lets say after you been married in fukuoka and got your spouse visa/resident card you can live anywhere in japan right?
+M Bof hello, thanks for the question, yes I believe so
Yes Mb you can live everywhere, you just need to change the address in your resident card if you move to a new place
Congratulations for your marriage.
I have also Japanese girlfriend and we decided to married in this year . So can you please tell me what kind of documents I need for spouse visa !!!
Hi world info, all the document need it are describe in the video, thank you for wartching
Thanks to reply
But I already get spouse visa and married with my Japanese girlfriend last year . And also I get married visa for 1 year but because of this pandemic I can’t go back in Japan
@@worldinfon3247 Oh no I am sorry to hear that, hopefully everything will come back to normal, now I am editing a video about the situation of Covid 19 in japan, hope it will be helpful
What do you mean "no crime documents " lol, are u saying you need some sort of background check? What if I had a crime 15yrs ago but I'm married to a japanese national? Idk why that should effect anything.
Hi sir and man iam from usa want to get merried japanise pilipina recident but give us hard time to get lccm here at us embassy of tokyo
Hi. My Japanese husband and I just got married this May 2019. We are thinking if is it easy or difficult to get spouse visa? Requirements are not a problem but I guess about interviewer or immigration officer's decision has power to decide about it in any way. Please message me what options are there if spouse visa get denied. Or if Immigration is not that strict anymore. Thanks
mcv333 hi There, I am not an immigration agent, but what I know that you have to proof that your relationship is real, if you guys been a lot of time together and have proof, should be no problem.
For me fortunately was not so difficult to have the visa, but that depend from case to case.
For your question, I am sorry but I am not able to known which visas you can apply if your spouse visa get denied or if is becoming hard or not.
@@thejapaneseways2103 I see. My husband and I will talk to the lawyer anyways. My Visa is from student to spouse. I checked in the internet about this situation but I never saw any post about that. So I was quite wondering what could be the outcome.
+mcv333 well, I wish you good luck with the application
The Japanese ways Hi, I am back. My visa was approved. wahaha, I am sooo happy. 😅 Thanks for your video. It arrived in just 19 days. 😂
@@mcv333 wow we're on the same situation from student visa i applied to spousal visa and still waiting for the results , almost two weeks waiting now :) praying for positive results :)
Wow! it is a long complicated process.
Mudathir Ali I agree with you, but once you understand the process, is very simple😁
@@thejapaneseways2103 What is the procedure if someone already married in Australia before moving to Japan?
i want japan visa because i liked japan people
I'm Swiss, my girlfriend is Japanese. Out of curiosity, I asked the Swiss embassy what it would cost to get married. They wrote me that I would have to pay an advance of 70,000 yen to process the documents. how much did you have to pay for all the documents and translations? and all fees for the embassy? Thank you for you Help, Grazie Mille :-)
Hi Produktest, congratulations for your marriage.
For the translation and the fees for embassy I pay much less then 70.000¥, with the visa include it costs less then 10.000¥
I don’t know why they ask you so much 🤔
@@thejapaneseways2103 because Switzerland is a very expensive country. I'm not getting married yet, I just wanted to find out about the process. with me it would be so that I would have to do it through the Swiss embassy. First I need the certificate of marital status. I have to apply for this through the Swiss embassy in Japan.
I see, yes Switzerland is very expensive you might to do by yourself all the translations if you girlfriend helps you...
You might save a lot of money and you don’t need agency to get married
@@thejapaneseways2103 I think I have to do it through the embassy that it's official. But I ask the embassy again.
@@thejapaneseways2103 do you think that there can be a problem to get the spouse visa if the age difference is big? I'm 34 and my girlfriend is 21 years old. In addition, she has no income as a student except for a small part-time job
Questionaire: how long have you been together? WE JUST MET, AND I LOVE HER, PLEASE GIVE ME SPOUSE VISA lol.
sir, so when your staying here in japan, no need to apply certificate of eligibility~~~ spouse visa already
+nez ko I did apply for That, but every country is different, please talk to your embassy
The Japanese ways i applied already for change of status as of now we are waiting for the result.
thank your advice.
The Japanese ways thank you so much it really help your video for my spouse visa.
after 3week after applying in the immigration., i got my residence card already., god bless you ., thanks a lot
@@neznaka8433 Awesome I am happy to hear that, at the beginning of next year I will make one more video of how to renew the visa for others 3 years, stay in touch. Good luck
The Japanese ways i will wait for it.
Complicated? you should try to get the visa in uk hahaha.. its is 20 times more expensive and 20 times more complicated.. this seems such simple process compared to uk.
Hi.. may I ask a question? I'm a filipina and my bf is japanese. Me and my boyfriend met 2018 on a dating site. We met personally in 2019 for three times that was in taiwan , hong kong and in the Philippines. I visited Japan using 90 days visa temporary visitor. We got married in Japan this year April 2020 and I am still here in Japan. We applied my spouse visa and it is now processing. No worries about my husband's tax and income too. is it possible that they will grant me a visa? Thank you so much
Hi Doni
Thanks you for asking this question,
I’m not an immigration agent, but in my understanding as long your relationship is true and your husband paid taxes in last years, in the mostly cases will be fine.
So don’t worry you will get the visa soon, if you have more questions don’t hesitate to ask 😉
I am so worried right now. But I will update you soon about the result. Thank you so much for the positive reply! ☺️
It will be ok, you will the visa soon, good luck 🙏🏻
Hi again sis/bro, my lawyer sent the documents today and the immigration gave me a letter saying that I can stay 2 months while my spouse visa is processing and will update us again once visa is granted or not. is that the normal process? thank you so much
Yes, Doni is a normal process, they need to verify all the documentation, in my case it took 3 weeks before I got the visa, I hope yours will be faster...
Good luck 😉
can i contact you in social media like Facebook messenger ?
Hello guys
I'm Arminder Singh form India I want study in Japan and I'm married pls tell me details spouse visa
LOL they talked about their experience, yours is completely different. I suggest you call up immigration office and ask them. As they mentioned and also from my experience, it will depend on what city(prefecture) you are in/you want to live in.
Do your search mate.
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