Travelling to Japan next month and looking at the online immigration form and have a few questions
Would the point of embarkation be the UK airport I start my journey or Dubai where I start the flight into Tokyo, obviously entering the Dubai Tokyo flight number ?
Travelling with wife and my adult son and his girlfriend, neither of them live with us so don’t have their passports to hand, is it ok if the 4 of us fill out the form separately or do I have to add the others as family travelling with me and if so can I include sons girlfriend as family?
As we may not have internet connection when we initially land can we just screenshot the QR code or can we print them off?
Thanks in advance
by Andrew1811
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Depending on whom you ask you’ll get a different answer for the point of embarkation. Either works – although by strict reading of the definition of embarkation that would be your UK airport. Interestingly, more recently advice has been to put in the last airport before arrival to Japan so, in this case, that’d be Dubai. When I entered the info I put in my original departure airport and that was fine. So… either. 🙂
For traveling with your wife, son, and his gf – each person filling out their own is best. You can fill out the visit Japan info for your wife if you like although she’ll need a copy of it when she enters.
[https://www.vjw.digital.go.jp/manual/main/visitjapanweb_manual_en.html#_Toc154157311](https://www.vjw.digital.go.jp/manual/main/visitjapanweb_manual_en.html#_Toc154157311)
Yes, take a screenshot of your QR codes (also take screenshots of everyone’s codes just in case…) and you’ll be fine.
Enjoy your trip!
Technically, the flight that matters is the flight that lands you in Japan. The Visit Japan Web chatbot gives [a clear answer to this](https://imgur.com/dB7frVK). So for you, that’s Dubai and the flight from Dubai.
>is it ok if the 4 of us fill out the form separately
Adults can always fill out Visit Japan Web separately if they want. Technically, immigration/customs defines “family members” as “spouse, lineal descendants, and relatives who are considered to be in an equivalent position”, so your son’s girlfriend wouldn’t count if you wanted to do things on a single account (again, I took that info from the VJW chatbot).
In practice, though, this doesn’t typically matter as long as you can adequately explain whatever you write down. They don’t tend to scrutinize anything as long as it makes sense.