Hi everyone, had something stuck on my mind recently.
I’ve succesfully switched from student to work (engineer) visa around January of this year. On December, I had some dental treatments and I had kept using the national health insurance card.
After working for a month, my shakai hoken card came in, but I didn’t know that I had to drop out of the National insurance by myself as this is my first year here. This ended up in me being a month late on a payment, which I got refunded for but due to an oversight I had also missed Decembers payment of 1800 yen also. I paid it immediately after being told.
My two questions are:
Is the late payment, or the fact that I dropped out of the national insurance late; likely to affect my visa renewals in the future? it was almost 2-3 months late.
They have explicitly asked if I used my NHI after changing visa status. As far as I remember, I had stopped the dental treatments a few weeks before. I’m pretty 99% sure that I haven’t used my NHI after. Even if I did, what would be the consequences. My visits cost no more than 1500 yen usually.
Sorry for the long post and thanks to anyone who reads it.
TLDR; Does forgetting to drop out of NHI, or late insurance premiums affect visa renewals?
by Ithrowthisaway3131