Permanent Residency Question

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1. Without checking the immigration site myself, yes you will almost definitely have to submit your husband’s tax document(s).

   I think. Not sure.

   I got PR back in 2017, and was required to submit my dependent (Japanese) wife’s tax docs. It doesn’t matter whether they actually worked the previous year, or not.

   If you do not include all of the required documents, they’re only going to request them anyway.

   The way to look at this is that immigration want to see evidence. They’re checking that all of your ducks are aligned.

2. >I just want to know if I have to submit my husband’s taxes and pension information. I am the head of the household as I have a full-time job and my husband just works part-time and goes to school and has a dependent visa. If I have to submit his documents I might as well not apply since there was a mix-up and I was late on one of his payments last year in October.

   Technically, your husband should not be paying tax, or if he is, not much. because on a dependent visa he shouldn’t be earning enough to be considered financially independent.

   So the guidelines should be not to exceed ¥1.3 million.

   Which when you combined the ¥480,000 basic deduction (¥430,000 for resident tax) + the employment income deduction for ¥1.3 million (¥550,000)

   Meaning if he’s earning ¥1.3 million then his tax bill would be about ¥13,500 income tax and about ¥27,000 resident tax…. For the whole year!

   If he is earning less than ¥1,030,000 then his taxes would literally be ¥0

   So exactly how much exactly is your husband earning? Because if he is violating his dependent visa, that could certainly have repercussions onto you because you sponsor his visa, so you’re responsible for him. And that would be picked up on a PR application as they take into account of dependents (they expect a higher income for each dependent)

3. Applied for PR recently, not on spousal visa, still got asked to submit husband’s documents.

4. so. If we have new thread today. How is it going with oct-nov applications?

5. Immigration asks for information from spouses not supporting the applicant fairly regularly – yes, it is not on their website, but it is quite common to be asked.

6. someone please correct me if i’m wrong, but late payments don’t matter as long as the payments are made within the valid timeframe, right?

   my understanding is that as long as you’re both paid up, you should be fine.

7. Please double-check, but you might not have to submit more than year’s worth of documents for him. If that’s true, just apply in November.

8. Hey I’m also applying for PR right now and our situation is similar (I’m head of household, husband is on dependant visa). And we’re both foreigners. So when I said I’m applying, immigration said we both should apply together. I think they said some documents can be submitted just one for both (eg reason for applying) but just in case I’m compiling documents for both of us.

   How are you getting your pension documents? Did you put in a request or doing it through nenkin net?

9. I was required to submit all documents for everyone in my household when I applied. That included my spouse, MIL, FIL and BIL since we all technically live at the same address.

   It could be just my experience, but they checked all of their documents thoroughly too. They had questions about my BIL and called us in for an interview to talk about it. This was back in February. I think things have been getting pretty strict with immigration these days.