Hello everyone,
I am a US citizen living in rural Japan. My ultimate goal is to move back to the US with my wife, but I’ve been job hunting for over a year with no luck.
I was wondering if it is possible to work remote for a US company while living in Japan. Would any company consider hiring a citizen that doesn’t currently live in the US? I worked in supply chain for 6 years and I’m trying to find a remote role in a similar position. I’ve applied for a few remote jobs in the US but I want to know if I’m wasting my time.
Like I mentioned, my goal is to move my wife and I back to the US, but I don’t have family or anything to move in with while I get settled or anything like that. I’m also not ashamed to mention that I’m super broke and have been living paycheck to paycheck unable to save much, for the last year( I have applied to over 100 positions this year). So with that said I would need to save enough money for visa, flight, apartment, etc.
In case it matters;
I’m 30, have a BA in English
6 years military experience
1 year experience as a computer repair tech
Advanced experience in Microsoft office(excel, Powerpoint, outlook, etc)
Basic experience in HTML,CSS, JavaScript, and Python
Upper- Intermediate Japanese level
Spouse visa
Any help would be appreciated
3 comments
It’s certainly allowed by immigration if you are on a spouse visa.
Then the difficult part will be finding a company willing to hire a foreign remote worker and doing taxes and all unless you use one of those EOR (is that what it’s called) services.
It is allowed, but there are a lot of tax implications for you, and any company that wanted to hire you would need a physical presence in Japan (or use an employment agency). I’ve looked into it in the past and came to the conclusion it would be more trouble than it would be worth.
You could join the navy reserves in Japan and drill remotely for them. Depending on your rank, that drill pay is pretty decent with the current exchange rate. Could also get any security clearance you might have held back and then use it to leverage clearance jobs back stateside, which might be a lot easier to get. Just a thought!