I have been a long term resident of Japan, but during the pandemic I couldn’t renew my visa, as I was in EU at that time. The visa was, via embassy, reinstated last year. I got my ID card, which was due to renewal this year. I applied in June, and have to pick it up at the immigration office until mid October.
The thing is that I also need to submit juminhyou (住民票), which I don’t have, because I am still in Europe and need to be here for at least couple of months. I wonder if I could get issued such document from the ward of my previous apartment in Tokyo. I don’t live there anymore, but I also have not officially moved out from there. (never filled in the moving out form).
When I was submitting the documents at the immigration office the lady mentioned something about hotel address registration, but judging from the info I have read on several 区 homepages in Tokyo, they don’t do that.
Is there any way to get the juminhyou without going all the way of finding a new apartment?
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**Problem with juminhyou**
I have been a long term resident of Japan, but during the pandemic I couldn’t renew my visa, as I was in EU at that time. The visa was, via embassy, reinstated last year. I got my ID card, which was due to renewal this year. I applied in June, and have to pick it up at the immigration office until mid October.
The thing is that I also need to submit juminhyou (住民票), which I don’t have, because I am still in Europe and need to be here for at least couple of months. I wonder if I could get issued such document from the ward of my previous apartment in Tokyo. I don’t live there anymore, but I also have not officially moved out from there. (never filled in the moving out form).
When I was submitting the documents at the immigration office the lady mentioned something about hotel address registration, but judging from the info I have read on several 区 homepages in Tokyo, they don’t do that.
Is there any way to get the juminhyou without going all the way of finding a new apartment?
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>I don’t live there anymore, but I also have not officially moved out from there. (never filled in the moving out form).
Technically, you did file your moving out form, even if on your own perspective you didn’t because immigration did it for you.
when your status of residency and/or Article 26 re-entry permit and/or Article 26-2 special re-entry permit expired (also when one hole punches their zairyu card on departure), Immigration notify municipality offices to cancel the juminhyo, because the individual no longer has the right to reside in Japan as a register resident because the individual no longer holds a “mid to long term resident” status.
This is where a good friend comes to place.