Highly Skilled Professional Visa or General Worker Visa

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1. Are you a regular seishain employee or a temp on a fixed term working arrangement? The latter may be hard to justify an HSP. HSPs are tied to employers and 1 year probably won’t qualify.

2. >he said it requires more paper work, scrutiny and money. He said, being a 1 year assignment to Japan, it doesn’t make sense to get HSP.

   Ultimately, if your company isn’t willing to do the legwork for a HSFP, you’re not going to get a HSFP. They’re the ones who have to do the paperwork, so ultimately it’s their call.

   As to whether it’s worth it in your case? If you’re only doing a one-year stay, I honestly don’t think it is. Most of the “flagship” benefits of the HSFP are really only benefits to people staying in Japan long-term. Things like shorter time to PR, the ability for a spouse to work full-time, and the ability to bring parents as caregivers if you have kids… All of those things won’t matter if you’re only on a one-year assignment.

3. If you don’t need to bring someone (other than a spouse) to watch your kid(s) and it will only be for a year, I tend to agree with your employer. The internal transfer would be much simpler for everyone.

4. > He said, being a 1 year assignment to Japan, it doesn’t make sense to get HSP.

   Yeah this. He’s right. you yourself said you don’t have plans to stay beyond a year. There’s no point unless you need to bring an adult dependent, like a parent.

5. > Do I get a lot of benefits (immediate and future) if go the route of HSP vs Worker visa

   No