so when i got a 1 yr contract at a shitty eikaiwa, i applied for 1 yr and immigration just GAVE me 5. this got my hopes and expectations way up and had me believing future interactions would also go well…
fast forward to last year: i get a new job at a “real” japanese company with a fancy job title to boot. the company helped me renew, and i get 1 year?!? i began the process for naturalization a few months later and asked my lawyer about it and he said maybe because it’s a new job and also a new field for me. once that application was in, they told me i’d have to renew my work visa in the meantime (results can take up to a year) and that “it would be best” if i got 3-5 years. everyone around me assured me that since i’ve stayed on for a year with no problems i’d surely get a longer visa next time…
nope, just 1 year again, and now i’m stressed this will hurt my naturalization, i’ll lose all the money i paid the lawyer, and i’m so stressed and confused as to why immigration is being stingy???
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Luckily from everything I read the naturalization process doesn’t care much about the length of your current visa.
But then again your lawyer would know no better.
Usually renewals happen 1year, 1 year, 3, 5.
I got all the way to 5 years and then switched to a spouse visa and I got the stupid 1,1,3 cycle again, but I applied for PR.
I don’t think it has anything to do with YOU it just happens to be their weird system.
I’ve had 1,3,3,1,1,1,3 in that order. The last 4 renewals were with the same company, so it really sucks to go their office every year.