For the immigration points system for PR, can the annual salary be sourced from the total of multiple jobs? Or does it need to be only from the job that your work visa status is based on?
I’m trying to Google, but I’m not getting the clearest picture and a simple yes or no from people who know would be helpful to me.
Let’s go with the following hypothetical:
Full-time job at a Japanese company in Japan, making ~¥3.5M, plus part-time freelance remote work for a company outside of Japan for ~¥1.5M. The total annual income would be ~¥5M, but that amount wouldn’t be from the principal sponsoring Japanese company. Would immigration consider the ¥5M or the ¥3.5M?
I made a post a few days ago about a potential job offer here and I’m trying to figure out any/all of my options to reach a salary consistent with PR on the 3-year path. That number for me is ¥4M but I can’t afford to wait more than a year to get that number before I’d cross an age boundary within the 3 years. It’s possible that I’m totally misunderstanding this whole process though so feel free to bring me back down to Earth. If this just isn’t possible for me, I get it, I just want to know now. This is how far I made it with Google so building a more nuanced understanding from those who have been through it or have known people who have would be great. Thanks in advance for your help!
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That’s how I did it, but they seem to care more about the stability aspect than the total amount.
So if you’ve been making 3.5m from one job and 1.5m from another you picked up recently (let’s say for under a year), you might get rejected. But as I said, if you’re seishain with 3.5m and have been paying your shit in time you could squeeze through.
Then again, I know some that have gotten it on a shitty teaching job making <3m so it can vary
From what I’ve been told by a lawyer, you need to prove you are going to make this much salary for the next year. So you’d need certificates from all your potential employers to provide an income certificate for the next year. You definitely can combine multiple sources of income, but there’s one slight issue with that too, that is, are you allowed to legally work for multiple employers? Do you have a permission to do so?
> plus part-time freelance remote work for a company outside of Japan for ~¥1.5M.
What type of status are you on? It very possible you’re [not allowed to be doing this](https://www.reddit.com/r/JapanFinance/comments/tbgtrg/work_visa_in_japan_remote_us_employment/i076rw6/?context=3), so informing immigration of that job would be a bad idea.
Unless I’m misunderstanding something.
My understanding from my lawyer was that if you want to be considered for X bracket, you have to both have actually earned at least X the prerequisite years, and your main work contract needs to specify that you will continue earning X (there’s a document you can get your company to sign that’s basically “yes the company expects to pay at least X to this person”)
I think part time stuff or overtime that isn’t always included is basically out of scope (a friend was barely out of range due to him earning more from overtime but it not hitting the rubric)
no. Even if you can prove that income, they won’t take it because it overseas.
I think other people have been trying to make this point, but I’m not sure it’s been clear:
1. you can work multiple jobs **in Japan** under an applicable work status (i.e. you could be an ALT for four companies under a single instructor status).
2. You cannot work jobs **outside of Japan** under a work status (if you were under a spouse of Japanese/PR status you have unlimited work permissions).
3. Also immigration is unlikely to grant permission for jobs outside of status for things outside of Japan because well … if you want to work outside of Japan, be outside of Japan.
All of that is a preface to the question you’re asking about whether you can add income from different employers to get to the income threshold for points-based PR.
Question 9 from [https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/930001663.pdf](https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/930001663.pdf) suggests that income from abroad can count but I’m not seeing anything on the immigration website about piecing together the income from multiple sources.
Does anyone have any experience in qualifying for PR via multiple incomes and applying? If you do have such experience or know of a post where someone succeeded in doing so please DM me as I want to apply for PR via multiple incomes.