I googled this and it’s very vague, just confirming the obvious if you haven’t paid pension it may affect your application.
I’ve been here 8 years, married for 6.
I was an English teacher for 4 years and didn’t pay pension during that time (classic) and when I eventually left that job and started a new one non teaching I was told to enroll in the pension through the company I need to pay backdated payments of around 400,000. I paid up and since then I’ve been paying monthly through my salary.
Do you think this will have a bad effect on my application seeing as how I’ve paid now?
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Usually if you have 3 years on time and 5 years+ back paid in full you will be OK.
They are checking for the last 2years of records (Yours and your spouse)
If your 2 last years of records are clean and paid in time then it’s ok, if not then wait until then
The guidelines state that they only look at the last 2 years for on-time payments. But the guidelines are the absolute minimum.
However, you do actually have to submit your whole pension record (either via Nenkin Net or the report from the pension office).
So if you were not paying pension for 4 years then your pension record is going to have 2 years as “not contributed” and another 2 years as “contributed… but paid late” (as you can only back pay up to 2 years). And then 4 years as “contributed… on time”
Can this affect your application? Certainly, it’s the law (national pension act) to pay pension every month from age 20 to 60. PR requires you to be law abiding resident.
Will this affect your application? Unlikely, especially as you’re applying via the spousal route. And as long as the most previous two years are paid, and paid on time.
Same thing happened to me too. Those damn English teaching companies, taking advantage of our gaijin ignorance 🙁