I have a long term visa and I really want to quit my current job since I found a better one and my visa expiration is closing in……can I quit my current job and be able to extend my visa or will I get denied for extension?
There’s no such thing as a general ‘long term visa’.
There’s a long term resident which you get if you don’t meet any of the other resident types but you have a good reason for being in Japan (i.e. divorced but your child is remaining in Japan) or something. This visa typically isn’t tied to a job but rather a family reason for remaining in Japan.
There’s also the specified visa: long stay for sightseeing. This visa does not grant the ability to work.
If your visa/status is based on your employment to a certain job – it’ll get denied once you are no longer employed at that job. Both the company and you have to inform immigration within 14 days of leaving said job so it’s not like they won’t know that the contents of your application have changed during the middle of it. They’ll know.
The best thing to do would be to renew your current visa, quit, and then inform immigration of your new job if it falls under the same category.
Your post is rather vague. Is your visa a work visa? If so then your ability to get an extension would be tied to your job sponsoring your visa renewal.
So the new job would have to be willing to help you with the extension if you quit your current job.
An extension shouldn’t get denied as long as you have everything required for it.
But you can’t apply for an extension without your job giving you the required documents. You still need that paperwork just as you needed it to get the visa in the first place.
Why not just apply for your extension, then switch jobs?
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What visa do you have?
There’s no such thing as a general ‘long term visa’.
There’s a long term resident which you get if you don’t meet any of the other resident types but you have a good reason for being in Japan (i.e. divorced but your child is remaining in Japan) or something. This visa typically isn’t tied to a job but rather a family reason for remaining in Japan.
There’s also the specified visa: long stay for sightseeing. This visa does not grant the ability to work.
If your visa/status is based on your employment to a certain job – it’ll get denied once you are no longer employed at that job. Both the company and you have to inform immigration within 14 days of leaving said job so it’s not like they won’t know that the contents of your application have changed during the middle of it. They’ll know.
The best thing to do would be to renew your current visa, quit, and then inform immigration of your new job if it falls under the same category.
Your post is rather vague. Is your visa a work visa? If so then your ability to get an extension would be tied to your job sponsoring your visa renewal.
So the new job would have to be willing to help you with the extension if you quit your current job.
An extension shouldn’t get denied as long as you have everything required for it.
But you can’t apply for an extension without your job giving you the required documents. You still need that paperwork just as you needed it to get the visa in the first place.
Why not just apply for your extension, then switch jobs?