Is there any minimum hours a week/month/year you must work as is required to keep your English teaching Visa in Japan?
For example, can an English school hire you to teach 2 days a week and get you sponsored for a Visa that way? Is there any requirement by immigration on how many days you must teach?
This may happen if an English school can only hire you to work 2 days initially. Or, if you already work full-time but want to drop down to 2 days a week.
Let’s ignore as to *if* you should do this or not. This is purely an immigration question to protect oneself from any surprises from the immigration bureau in Japan.
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There is no minimum working hours. There is minimum pay, which used to be ~3m a year but has been creeping down as salaries decrease. You need to be able to show immigration that you make enough money to support yourself on the visa that you are here under. If you’re only working 2 days a week, how would you support yourself? Where is your money coming from? If the majority of your money is coming from side jobs, those aren’t “side jobs”, they are your main job and you are on the wrong visa. If the majority of your money comes from a sugar momma, you need to marry her and get on a spouse or dependent visa.
I believe it’s a minimum 200,000円 per month in order to qualify for it. Some teaching jobs could let you by with a 4-day while still qualifying with that in mind. You have to report your financials to immigration upon renewal.
You can sponsor your own visa so long as you earn a certain amount across all of your contracts, but you have to prove you have the contracts to the immigration office. I think the amount is usually around 20man a month.