I am currently engaged with a Japanese national.
Current status: working visa, engineer, 7 years now. (Didn’t have any other visa before that, and this visa has been already renewed 3x)
Which is better for approval?
Apply for naturalization first? or get married first?
How eager should be the reasoning why you would like to be a Japanese citizen?
Im honest and nothing to hide but I worry about not being convincing enough to their standards.
I send money to my parents and use it to deduct to my taxes during kakutei shinkoku, will it have negative points?
Should you speak Japanese during the interview? like is it a make or break if you are not fluent enough?
I have read and even commented on the past threads about Naturalization but didn’t find answers to my questions…
I hope people here who got naturalized recently can share their thoughts…
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What’s the benefit of naturalization vs PR?
No resident card to renew every 7 years.
Slightly quicker airport experience until it’s fully automated.
Advantages of naturalization over PR.
You can vote.
And you defo gotta be able to converse in Japanese.
> Which is better for approval?
> Apply for naturalization first? or get married first?
Does not matter. If you get married the process will be more involved, and your spouse will have to interview as well.
> How eager should be the reasoning why you would like to be a Japanese citizen?
Normally eager? Just wanting to settle down and live your life in japan is good enough reason.
> Im honest and nothing to hide but I worry about not being convincing enough to their standards.
You don’t need to convince anyone. If you meet the requirements and can submit all the docs you will be ok.
> I send money to my parents and use it to deduct to my taxes during kakutei shinkoku, will it have negative points?
Is it legal? Then no.
> Should you speak Japanese during the interview? like is it a make or break if you are not fluent enough?
Yes, of course you should. This can be a deal breaker. You should have a basic command of conversational Japanese at sort-of middle-school level. If they doubt your language ability you will have to take a very easy test.
You’re asking some very odd and tangental questions. I would look more into it by yourself first and you can ask more pertinent ones and get better answers.
Why not just PR? Got to have a plan B when the Ghosn thing happens to you.
I don’t think deducting overseas remittances from your taxable income is legal, but I may be wrong.
You need 3rd grade elementary school Japanese, but interview all in Japanese and alone for up to 2 hours. You’ll be asked tons of questions and they’ll look at all your papers carefully. Deducting from your tax seems weird. Are your parents dependants , is your deduction legal? Do you pay nenkin and taxes ?
Do you make enough to support yourself?
Being married is not necessary but even being engaged, they might interview your fiancee.
In any case, It’s best to hire a scrivener and they can give you better answers.
I have gone through the naturalization process and absolutely no part of it was conducted in any language other than Japanese. I don’t think anyone involved in the process even spoke English.