Does anyone know if a language school can send a visa to an address in Japan (we own a house but have no residence status), and then if it’s possible fly to Korea to submit your visa application, rather than back to the US? We would like to stay for 3 months before the school semester starts (us citizens, thus visa waiver)
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Do you live in Korea?
>if it’s possible fly to Korea to submit your visa application
It is ***not***.
The embassy in Korea will only process visas for Korean citizens and legal residents of Korea. Almost every other Japanese embassy has the exact same rule as well.
You would be required to return to the US to do your visa applications.
>Does anyone know if a language school can send a visa to an address in Japan
They could send a certificate of eligibility to such an address, but the visa is between you and immigration.
>if it’s possible fly to Korea to submit your visa application,
You would have to be a resident of Korea to use a Japanese consulate there.
>We would like to stay for 3 months before the school semester starts
That’s fine, but you’d need to leave in order to apply for the visa and then use it to enter Japan. Even if you were able to use a proxy to submit your documents at a consulate in the US you cannot change your status from tourist to student while inside Japan.
Others have already given you excellent responses, but also bear in mind that asking the school to send your COE to a local address may appear a little suspicious.
Mostly being paranoid, but this could look like you’re using the student visa to do a bait and switch.
Hold on, there’s someone at the d