I am in Japan on an engineering visa, and I am in the process of applying for a dependent visa for my wife (half-Japanese and from a different Asian country). We are working with a company based in the Tsukiji area to apply for her visa since we are new to the process.
My wife is currently in the US and has a job there on a working visa, and because my wife earns more than I do, they are concerned that immigration will deny the application because she earns too much to justify her depending on my income.
Is this accurate? If so, does anyone have suggestions of how to resolve this issue? My wife quitting is a possibility if required, but I would prefer to let her keep her job through EOY when her US work visa expires if possible.
Edit: I should probably add that my income is enough to justify supporting her. Her income would not be required for us to be financially stable in the short/mid term.
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**Dependent Visa – wife makes too much to be my dependent?**
I am in Japan on an engineering visa, and I am in the process of applying for a dependent visa for my wife (half-Japanese and from a different Asian country). We are working with a company based in the Tsukiji area to apply for her visa since we are new to the process.
My wife is currently in the US and has a job there on a working visa, and because my wife earns more than I do, they are concerned that immigration will deny the application because she earns too much to justify her depending on my income.
Is this accurate? If so, does anyone have suggestions of how to resolve this issue? My wife quitting is a possibility if required, but I would prefer to let her keep her job through EOY when her US work visa expires if possible.
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Unrelated to immigration but to claim a spouse as a dependent, tax and social insurance wise, his/her combined income must be less than 1.3M yen ish.
Although I don’t know if it is a strict or de facto requirement for immigration that your taxes accurately reflect the dependent working spouse relationship but I definitely think it is possible.
Aside from sex work, dependents arent limited in what kind of work they do, though it must be limited to 28 hours a week or part time work and if the income significantly exceeds what would normally be considered part time work, then it is also problematic.
>for my wife (half-Japanese
Does your wife have a Japanese parent/grandparent/greatgrandparent? If so she could get an ancestor based visa of her own with no work restrictions whatsoever.
Wouldn’t she be unemployed when she moves here? At that point she would have no income.
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The people at company, processing your wife’s dependent visa paperwork, are idiots. You could have directly dealt with immigration and would have got better advice. Find someone else to help you. The company is just trying to milk you.
Her income in US has no bearing on her dependent visa status in Japan. Dependent Visa is not same as dependent for tax purposes. Immigration will not deny her application for this reason.