I am currently planning how to move to Japan after finishing my masters degree. I lived there for like 3 years already and I speak Japanese well enough to do some freelance translation work already.
But I don’t really understanding how the working visa categories and COE work, so if someone who moved to Japan to work as a translator (especially freelance) and has some time to explain this and that, I would be super grateful for a DM, comment, etc.!
For example, I dont really get how you are supposed to get a job that will give you a COE before moving aka. how they schedule the job start if you have to wait for the COE, apply for visa and then move..? Or how you can have multiple ‘jobs’ as a freelancer with a pretty strict Japanese working visa?
Thank you already!!
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**Experience with moving to Japan as (freelance) translator**
I am currently planning how to move to Japan after finishing my masters degree. I lived there for like 3 years already and I speak Japanese well enough to do some freelance translation work already.
But I don’t really understanding how the working visa categories and COE work, so if someone who moved to Japan to work as a translator (especially freelance) and has some time to explain this and that, I would be super grateful for a DM, comment, etc.!
For example, I dont really get how you are supposed to get a job that will give you a COE before moving aka. how they schedule the job start if you have to wait for the COE, apply for visa and then move..? Or how you can have multiple ‘jobs’ as a freelancer with a pretty strict Japanese working visa?
Thank you already!!
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Do you have JLPT?
Short answer is that you cannot use freelance work as the basis for acquiring a status of residence.
To acquire a status of residence you need an employer and an employment contract that details what specific work you’ll be doing (to ensure that the work is inline with a status of residence) and what your compensation for that work will be (both to ensure that you’ll be able to live and pay taxes as well as to ensure that your employer is not trying to undercut the domestic labour market).
Once you’ve acquired a status of residence you can use freelance work to sustain it, but you need a primary (domestic) contract to act as your sponsor for the paperwork.