Hi All,
Apologies in advance for the long text
I wanted to see if someone could help me and or guide me the right direction.
My company is transferring me to their HQ in Tokyo. They applied for my CoE in 2019, received in November of the same year, got my visa on my passport in January 2020 but I was never able to land in Japan to activate my new visa status due to the pandemic. Due to this, my CoE and visa expired after 6 months.
In March 2022, Japan announced that they would extend the eligibility of the CoEs that were processed in 2019, allowing applicants to re-apply for their visas and avoiding for them applying again. When Japan announced this along the borders opening, I only had a short time to get my visa again and activate my “status”, neither my company nor myself were ready for my transition as we thought it would come later.
They sent me to activate my visa in July 2022, received my Zaryu Card and then return back to Canada to finalized my transition with the goal to fully move in February 2023. I only stayed in Tokyo for 7 days total and therefore I did not register an address. While in that time, we called immigration checking this as it was stated that I needed register an address within 14 days, they advised me to go in person and explain the situation as I would need a re-entry visa back and also to avoid issues of not having an address registered.
While my visit, I was able to talk to an agent explaining my situation and they advised me that as long as I register an address when I fully move i should be fine and also to explain this to the immigration officers at the airport so I could get my re-entry which I did with no problem.
Now I am moving on February 3rd and to be honest I am super nervous as I have been reading that I could get in trouble and or my status cpuld be revoked even though I was assured that it would be fine.
I am not sure if anyone has been on this type of situation that could advise and or if I need to prepare a company letter explaining so I can submitting it when registering my address in case they question the lack of address in the previous months?
Thank you in advance