Okay last time I make any more questions about the proof of funds portion of the visa application, sorry I’m just a huge worrywart and spend too much time thinking of “what ifs”
Here’s my situation and what I’ve already had asked and answered:
I’m a Californian planning on applying on a long term study for 2 years in Japan that starts on April 2024 and start applying this coming summer. My first two times asking about the bank statement I was planning on self-sponsoring and was worried about not having enough funds by the time I’d apply and submit a bank statement even though by february/march of next year I’d have saved about or more than 3-4 million yen.
What I know or have heard is that I should have JPY 3,500,000 – JPY 4,000,000 saved for two years, even if I intend on doing one year then extending later, using savings account that has a consistent amount of money going into it and shows sign of use is acceptable, and using parents as financial supports is of course an option.
Now, the situation is a tad different now that it seems like my parents plan on helping me financially so having the funds isn’t exactly the problem but still how I’d go submitting it now.
Only up until now is one parent and likely the other offering to help me as just one of them alone make more than enough annually and we’re sure I’d be short by time applications open up if I tried saving alone. Both me and my mom thought it could be good to use a bank statement from my savings account since it has a steady and consistent income and that they could also steadily put money into my savings until I’m at my goal and I self sponsor that way. The thing is I’ve heard that even if you have sufficient money, if you show that your annual income is under that then you can still be denied so I’m ruling that option out for now. Then we thought of making a new savings account that’s a joint account between me and a parent, but since that would be under two different names it felt too complicated. I had a silly question on whether I could self sponsor and then have a parent as an additional sponsor and show their income, I figure it has to be one or the other but I wanted to ask anyways. The last option was one of my parents creating a new savings under one of their names instead and I move what I’ve already saved and earn into that account; the only concern is that I’d be scared those first transfers would look odd and the account would be only about half a year old by then.
The first and last option feel the most viable but I do like to overthink things so I’d just to like to ask since I’m having trouble finding answers to something similar. Thank you and regarding this topic if I have more questions I’ll also directly ask the school.