I know there was a thread the other day from someone who got denied for a late tax payment but is there anyone who has succeded?
I assume he didn’t know and did not include any extra documents explaining.
We got hit by a home renovation scam and were living out of hotels and airbnbs for a couple of months (I know I still could have kept track of mail better or have changed it to automatic payments…)
Some things in my favor:
I also can prove I’m 4th generation Japanese with great-grandfathers koseki, passport and all the birth certificates down to me.
Passed the JLPT N1
Have a masters degree in a STEM field (Was only a couple points shy of being able to apply early by points)
We own property not renting (In wifes name)
My wife works for the government (公務員）
With a detailed explanation of the circumstances and going through a lawyer would there be any chance?
On a different note, my wife was planning to study abroad, and if she did that while I am still on the marriage (配偶者）would renewal be possible? I know they make exceptions to overseas transfers but would study abroad not work? The property we own is in her name.
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I think that unfortunately very little weight is given to the personal statement, and going via a lawyer just makes things more convenient, not quicker or likely to yield a better result.
They’ll just assess your documents.
If it helps though I was late filing my year end tax adjustment in 2021, paid extra taxes I owed 9 months late, and still got approved last year.
Regarding the spouse visa if your wife studies abroad, you really need to speak to immigration. As no one can really answer that.
If you want my speculative opinion though, I’d say it’s not possible. Because your visa sponsoring wife would no longer be a resident of Japan. Usually the exemptions immigration make are the other way around I.e when the non-Japanese national does not reside with the Japanese spouse for whatever XYZ reason. And a Japanese who is a non-resident cannot sponsor a spouse visa.
So you might need to check if immigration won’t let you keep the spouse visa while she studies abroad you could try see if they will give you the LTR visa for being 4th gen. That often only goes up to 3rd gen, but I have heard some 4th gen got it.
Also if your wife has a home loan she’s going to need to speak to her bank. She technically should no longer be entitled to the low interest rate if she’s no longer residing there. But speaking to the bank is imperative, not only because it’s a requirement but also as she (likely) intends to return in a few years then they will probably allow her to keep the low rate.
Regarding the late tax payments you will just have to submit your application and hope. The way the requirements are written though, would mean a rejection. But ultimately who knows. If you miss the payments they still have the ability to approve you, it just makes it easier for them to reject you.
I applied for PR as a spouse of a Japanese person.
Did not get it because my partner had one late payment because partner was abroad for work (Japanese company, CEO, legit reason).
We also own a house, have a high income and we wrote a beautiful Japanese letter explaining why there is a one time late payment and why I want to get my PR. It all did not work.
You can always try and you may get it.
Need to know when this happened.
Late recently = not happening unless you have some really good explanation (“I got hit by a bus and was hospitalized while my wife was in the hospital giving birth to our third Japanese citizen child.”).
If it is near the 3 year mark it might be okay but you can always just wait until it falls off…
Probably won’t happen unfortunately
You must reside with your spouse and have 2years of clean tax payment and they are very severe about it.
Even if you miss the tax payment by 1day they are most likely to deny you. (This is kinda absurd but this is how it works here).
Furthermore if your spouse lives abroad you won’t get renewal. So you’d better be ready to follow her the time she finishes her study or apply for another type of visa
It’s it just outstanding payments? It’s like any late tax payment ever?
Because I was late paying taxes for years when I first got here back in 2014 lol
I paid them all back and have been up to date since 2018-19, but I guess no permanent residency for me ever then.
I’ve heard its 3 years of no late payment and its like 90%+ chance of denial. Just throwing that # out of my ass but its hard to pass with late payment of any kind. The people working in immigration are real assholes looking for any reason to deny you.
You need the late payments to be 3-5+ years back and you’re fine.
Source: got PR with late payments
>I also can prove I’m 4th generation Japanese with great-grandfathers koseki, passport and all the birth certificates down to me.
This was recently announced…
[JapanTimes: Japan to offer permanent residency for fourth-generation descendants (2023-06-07) ](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/07/national/japan-permanent-residency-fourth-generation/)
I had a severely late tax payment, 9+ months late with a notice saying they were going to repossess my property to pay it. The cause was due to me moving and my mail/tax notifications not being forwarded to my new address — compounded by my own ignorance of how the tax system worked + my company telling me they had handled everything for me. At the end of the day it was my fault, I just didn’t know any better at the time.
Still got PR approved. As mentioned by another commenter below, perhaps because once I did receive a notice, I paid them and there was never a forced withdraw? OR perhaps because there is some look back cut off? It happened just over 3 years before I submitted the PR application.