I got married with my spouse after being together for five years. Three years living and working in Japan.
Long story short, my work contract ended and visa expired so I went back to the Uk to see family and friends as a well needed break.
Came back to Japan with a tourist visa, and we got married. As we want to settle down finally and to be open to other jobs as well.
Is it possible to change status of visa from tourist to Spouse visa ?
Or will I have to retain the certificate of eligibility? (as it seems to be a longer process ) do you just send it back and forth or is it better to ask and check in person?
What are some of the tips you have to shorten the process and how long did it take you to process it ?
As I have tourist visa . Will they make me return back to the Uk to wait?
Has any one done this before? It will be a great help. Thank you.
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**Tourist visa to Spouse visa?**
I got married with my spouse after being together for five years. Three years living and working in Japan.
Long story short, my work contract ended and visa expired so I went back to the Uk to see family and friends as a well needed break.
Came back to Japan with a tourist visa, and we got married. As we want to settle down finally and to be open to other jobs as well.
Is it possible to change status of visa from tourist to Spouse visa ?
Or will I have to retain the certificate of eligibility? (as it seems to be a longer process ) do you just send it back and forth or is it better to ask and check in person?
What are some of the tips you have to shorten the process and how long did it take you to process it ?
As I have tourist visa . Will they make me return back to the Uk to wait?
Has any one done this before? It will be a great help. Thank you.
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Call the Embassy and Immigration just to make sure.
Generally speaking, Tourist -> Spouse is one of the extremely few visas that you can transfer to as a tourist in the country.
With that being said, Immigration is generally not a big fan of doing things this way, though I haven’t yet heard of a rejection. They might be a bit more harsh in their judgement however.