I am near the end of my working holiday visa and was offered a seishain position at my work so I recently submitted the forms required to switch to a working visa. However after submitting I saw people mentioning a minimum salary requirement for the visa. Since I only make 2m a year as my current position, will my visa application realisticly be denied?
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They better offer free housing with that kind of pay or 6 month bonuses.
I’ve heard 3M is the defacto minimum if no other benefits.
The seishain position should have more benefits and potentially better pay compared with your current contract. If not, you can do better and still get a visa.
Also, as pointed out by another person in a separate thread, depending on the agreement your home country has with Japan, you may not be able to switch from a Working Holiday visa to a working one while in the country. If this is the case, you have to return to your home country and obtain a Certificate of Eligibility via your local Japanese embassy.
This was 10 years ago, but I was granted a work visa on a 1 year contract that paid 2.3M annually. So if there is a minimum requirement, it must be lower than that.
My first job in japan was less than 200.000 monthly lol. 3 years visa. Lucky 🍀
Yeeeeesh the fact companies can get away with paying that is criminal.
I work at a small power harassment manufacturing company. The entry was 2.3m 4 years ago. You can’t live on 2m… But there is no requirement for a work visa
I set my salary to 150,000 a month (net) which was enough to get a 3 year visa as seishain.
Many a person getting approved with 180,000 a month (2.16m annually).
They just want to make sure your income keeps you out of homelessness. They aren’t only approving solid middle class.
I got my status of residence renewed with a salary ¥1.92m a year (160,000 a month). I’m seishain and work as a system engineer. My status of residence is the international services/engineering/humanities one. It was a 3 year extension as well. You’ll be fine.
I think the salary requirement is not a hard number, but rather that you should earn no less than a Japanese person would do. So if a Japanese person makes the same horrible salary at a similar position , you could be fine.
But on another note. Don’t do this to yourself and fuck employers who pay so little. Especially with all the inflation and devaluation of the yen.
Even with your 2man rent. You will make like 17man a month before taxes. (That is if your employer has not included other shenanigans like bonus or transport allowance in the 2m yearly salary). How is someone without family to fall back on supposed to live on that? That’s crappy(but not uncommon) even for a shinsotsu outside the big cities. You even have experience working at that place. You might be able to scrape by on the salary, but any sudden expense will break your neck and you will not be able to build up a reserve to look for something better.
Just think about what your 17man have to pay for before you get to spend money on food and toilet paper:
– 2 man rent
– income taxes
– insurance
– resident tax
– Phone
– Internet
– Energy, gas, water
– Maybe building maintenance
You’ll be left with like ~3k/day
10 years ago 150.000, I get 3 years work visa