WH conversion working visa

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1. This is a copy of your post for archive/search purposes.

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   **WH conversion working visa**

   Hy everyone,

   I had a nice interview with a recruiter from Robert Walter yesterday morning. He explained thoroughly to me what are the things that would prevent me from finding a job in Japan.

   One of the thing was simply that first arrived, first served; it would increase significantly my chances if i was in Japan because a lot of companies want someone immediately. But for a work visa i need a work first.

   So we talked about the working holiday visa, and he explained to me it would be a good way, because i can work with it, i would do first a haken contract anyway and then they could convert my position to a permanent one at the end, and do me the papers work for a job visa. So i would just need to fly out and in .

   Now i have two questions.

   – how will it look from a japanese immigration point of view ? If i had a work contract for most of my WH and ask for a work visa? Is it a problem?

   – From what i understand from the immigratin website, in order to get a new visa after a working holliday visa i need to go back to my country (france), but the interviewer told me i could just go to South Korea and the French embassy ( because it is outside Japan but a french territory). Is it true?

   Have a nice day,

   Math

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2. A long time ago, I came on a WHV and all companies I interviewed with required me to switch to a proper working visa before starting with them. I think it’s because the tax for a WHV is annoying for payroll to deal with as it’s not standard.

   **But**, this was back when switching from a WHV to a work visa was easily done in country.

3. >- how will it look from a japanese immigration point of view ? If i had a work contract for most of my WH and ask for a work visa? Is it a problem?

   It’s not a problem. You’re allowed to work on a working holiday. You don’t *have to* move around every few weeks. You spend your time how you like.

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   >From what i understand from the immigratin website, in order to get a new visa after a working holliday visa i need to go back to my country (france), but the interviewer told me i could just go to South Korea and the French embassy ( because it is outside Japan but a french territory). Is it true?

   Technically, whether you would need to leave Japan at all depends on the specific terms of the agreement between France and Japan. Some agreements stipulate that you must leave and some don’t. Also, immigration has been known to ignore the ‘you must leave’ requirements and process change of status requests in country without any grief. Your mileage may vary.

   Regarding popping over to the French Embassy in South Korea… that doesn’t make sense at all. Why would the French Embassy help with issuing a Japanese visa? The Japanese embassy to South Korea has been known to process visa applications for non-residents, but its very much a case-by-case basis and their website does explicitly state that they will only provide services for Japanese citizens and legal residents of South Korea. So you’d want to call them yourself before making any specific plans. It’s also worth noting that you can’t apply for a visa if you’re currently holding a status of residence. Meaning *IF* your application to change your status is rejected you’d need to go somewhere that you can live for a few months to start the application process for a new visa from scratch.