Visas change and working in Japan?

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1. 4 years each or total? Usually it’s 10 years of experience. 8 years MIGHT work but it’s not a guarantee. 4 years is just not enough.

2. Without a college degree it is not likely you can get any kind of work visa, unless your country has some special arrangement with Japan.

   One such example would be a “working holiday” visa, which may be available to Italians in Japan.

   Why doesn’t your school want you to graduate? They know what they are telling you to do is nearly impossible and they lose money if you don’t continue to enroll. As long as you stay in school, they can sponsor renewals of your student visa. It’s not a once-in-a-lifetime visa.

3. You should focus on finding a job that will hire you without a degree. No point trying to put this effort into getting a work visa without a job offer, because that is what is needed for a work visa.

   So get a job offer first, then focus on the visa.

4. Sorry to be so frank, but get a little bit mature first and stand on your own, before thinking about marriage.

   It is good you are seeking advice, but it is also somewhat too basic things you are asking.

   Start networking on Linkedin and other sites, go to hello work, use recruiters and brows job sites like indeed and others. Be more active.

   Your knowledge is very limited though. The high school is no degree (I know the system from Germany). But at least you would need vocational school and a company for 3 years full time to call kt a degree.

   I would also advice you to think up really well how you promote working for two companies at a time. It can backfire rather quick. And if is is during high school times, it will not even count.

   Even more reason to start actively job hunting, as your only chance lies in finding the perfect place in practice. Theory is all against you. So no need to overthink it.

   Just my opinion.

5. How much longer do you have at your school on your visa? If you can’t find a job that will sponsor you soon (as someone else already mentioned immigration doesn’t necessarily need a four year University degree) you can switch to the “designated activities” job hunting visa. If you aren’t eligible for that you can apply for designated activities visa claiming “difficulty to return to your home country due to corona”. That visa is only valid for six months (maybe they reduced it four) but you can work part time and search for a company that will sponsor you

6. The way to get a work visa is that a company wants to work with you: You don’t apply for the work visa, the company applys for you, they tell immigration: we wanna work with that person, please give him or her a work visa so we can hire him / her. Which is called sponsoring you, being your sponsor. (The company applying is sponsoring you.)

   So what you need to focus on is finding such a company, meaning finding a job.

   If they sponsor you, there should be no issue to get the visa, as long as you paid your taxes and have no history of troubles with justice / police / kind of things.

   Sponsoring you costs nothing to the company, it’s just a bit of paperwork.

   Still, it can happen that the company feels like it’s a trouble, and doesn’t want to get through it.

   Foreign-friendly companies or companies run by foreign residents may likely be used to it and be ok with that, but it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t target the other companies. Basically just try everything you can.