I know this has happen to other people like me. And found a few threads already, but still would like to ask on my own case.
I came to Japan on a Working Holiday Visa. And from ignorance had no idea about registering my address on my residence card. The company that issued the ERFS for me when I first arrived recommended me to register their own address since I was gonna be moving around at the beggining.
And I thought that was enough (because, as far as they made me understand this was mainly just to receive my mail from the government and to not worry) So when I moved to my current address (beggining of July) I did not hurry into changing it. Until now that I decided (for mail purposes) that was more convenient to me to write down my current address.
So, I went to the office from the people that helped me registering my address and they filled the paperwork for me, then wrote down my move out date as July 1st. I took this paper and went to Koto Ward to do the move-out process. AND THEN, AFTER I submitted my paperwork for the first time they told me :“you should have done this within 14 days”
They handled me the move out document and recommended me to go now to my current ward and finish the process there.
Now, I am very scared of receiving a fine for my mistake. And I understand it was my responsibility and that I should have known better. But, I have tried my best to do everything the best I could and is not like I have not tried to be careful with this kind of stuff. Is it mainly the way how no one warned about this situation made me over confident about it.
Has anyone went through this same situation? Particularly to know they screwed up after handling the move out document?
Thank you for your help
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It seems you have a knack for letting your residency become … undocumented?
You’ll just have to bite the bullet with a bunch of sumimasens, as you already got the move-out document. Just plead ignorance.
It would have been better if you just changed the move out date to Aug 1, but c’est la vie.
You don’t have much choice anymore. you could explain the same thing you said here. and apologize sincerely. hopefully they let it go. normally there isn’t any fine for Japanese. but for foreigners there is I think.
Think I saw someone get a 200k yen fine for not registering in time, but had it waived because they were in quarantine (early covid) for two weeks. Cant find the post to that though.
Well, by law you could be fined for 50,000 yen but they very rarely do so because they’d have to file the case with the summary court and that’s a chore.
It isn’t as if you repeatedly deliberately delayed filing your move-in notice to avoid paying NHI fees or anything. Don’t worry so much about it and just do it first thing in the morning tomorrow. You’re not the only one to forget to do it, those of us who grew up here and can read, write and speak the language natively fail to do so all the time because it’s not something people bother to tell you.
Rhis happened to me out of lazines. They did let me be do, they did not fine me or anything exept a bit scolding about doing it properly the next time. Just apologize and say you did not know about it and all and they might let you be without fine too. I hope