Question about sponsor for spouse visa

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1. Your spouse would act as the sponsor.

2. On a spouse visa, unlike a work visa, where an employer domiciled to Japan is your sponsor, Your spouse is your sponsor.

   You need to have what immigration deem adequate household income, or, if your household have no income, a financial guarantor who financially supports your household.

3. Your spouse signs the guarantor paper. I forget what it says exactly, but something along the lines of them agreeing to pay for your return to your home country if your marriage doesn’t work out/you’re forced to leave, and swearing that you’ll follow the laws of japan and that they will support your living expenses here if need be. I might be a bit off on a couple of those though, so somebody correct me if I’m wrong.

   As far as their “requirements” the only real “requirement” is that you two as a household have what is deemed to be adequate household income to support the two of you. It doesn’t matter if only your spouse works and you don’t work, or only you work and your spouse doesn’t work, or both of you work, as long as when the money is seen as a whole it is enough to support the both of you (and anybody else in your household if it’s more than just you two)

   If both of you are unemployed or your household income is extremely low (like if it’s just one of you with a part time job for ¥100,000/ month or something for example) then immigration will want you to have somebody else in Japan be the guarantor, like one of your partner’s parents or something.

   You should also be residing with your spouse, or have an extremely good reason why you’re not.

4. It’s called guarantor or guarantee rather than sponsor.

   Anyway, if you want to apply for a spouse of Japanese national, your future spouse must be your guarantor. And the guarantor must,,,

   1. be Japanese national
   2. have 3M yen income or more per year
   3. must not have any delay in tax, health insurance and pension payment