Hi all,
I have a question about the highly skilled professional visa in Japan. I’m a 30 year old American with a PhD in the biomedical sciences, and have been in pharma (cancer research) for about 3 years. I may go for N2 or N1 in December but even without that, I think I may already have >80 points. I’d be bringing my wife over as well.
Anyway, the ask is whether smaller companies are allowed to sponsor someone for the HSP. I’m seeing mention that it may be only mid or large-sized companies that can sponsor and am wondering if anyone else has had experience with this (or any experience at all doing this in pharma).
Thanks in advance for any input!
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I haven’t seen anything online about company size limitations. If you look at the point system [1] small companies are mentioned as a way to incur points:
>Employed by a small or medium-sized enterprise whose experiment and research expenses add up to more than 3% of the total revenue.
So I would imagine that the only requirement would be the Japanese organization sponsoring your visa and you meeting the point requirements.
[1] https://resources.realestate.co.jp/living/highly-skilled-foreign-professional-visa-for-japan-how-and-why-to-apply/
Any company can sponsor. I know someone who set up a company and sponsored himself.
Eligibility aside, may I ask what the reason you want to go for HSFP over a regular work visa is?
One of my colleagues just got a HSP Visa last month. My company has less than 30 employees (but we do have some big revenue and pay tons of taxes).