We submitted our application which had lots of evidence for our relationship. We have a 16 year gap, im from North Europe and she is Japanese. We have been together for 4 years.
The financial base is strong, and my wife was acting as my guarantor(she has good income)
Im on a student visa(and havent been working as i was living on savings and didnt want any issues later) which i came to Japan with almost 2 years ago. We planned to get married, so 5 months after I proposed I withdrew from my studies and married and applied for new visa all within 3 months. I had 8 months left on my visa at this time.
However, due to misunderstandings on my half, and ignorance in general over my activities and what i was enrolled in, I told immigration i “graduated” from language school rather than voluntary withdrawing. I simply did not know what counts as graduation in a Language school. This had issue with this particular item and are asking for lots of documents from my school now which i am getting together.
Will be getting a lawyer involved however would just like to hear if anyone had such experience before? Feel sick about the prospect of breaking apart over this.
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If what you are describing is correct, you should not have quit being a student.
Basically, you’ve probably violated the terms of your status of residence as a student.
You *should* have continued being enrolled as a student while your change of status if residence was being processed.
In the worst case, you may need to return to your own country, and your wife submit a new application for a COE.
See what immigration says first. Do not lie, and clear up errors and misunderstandings.