It’s been my dream to move to Japan ever since I was little and I’ve been working extremely hard towards that goal. But I had to drop out of high school and get my GED. (It was out of my choice) I’m going to go to community college and then university. I’m wondering if I still have hope in moving to Japan or if my GED would hold me back from job opportunities there since it’s strict. If anyone has any sort of answers I’d be really grateful. Thanks!
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unless you either get married there or get an IT job first and transfer or change jobs to a position there, you’re not likely to move there permanently
this is a commonly asked question, please read the wiki: [https://www.reddit.com/r/movingtojapan/wiki/visas](https://www.reddit.com/r/movingtojapan/wiki/visas)
there’s no such thing as moving there and then finding a job, you need a visa and a sponsor, and if a company can find a local and not have to hire you and support your visa, they’ll do so
if you can get a good IT job here and make a career for yourself, then you can apply there like anyone else, but you’ll be competing against others, however the high school diploma is probably irrelevant
As long as you get your college degree, don’t worry. Nobody cares or will ever ask about your high school degree if you have a college degree.
The title confused me. If you only had a GED good luck. Nothing would be available. BUT if you have any college degree than you’re fine. Nobody will ever ask for anything but college transcripts and the degree. Only some really particular places actually ask for transcripts though. Most just want the degree and that’s it.
As others have said, if you have a university degree it’s fine. But you’ll notice that when filing job applications for Japanese companies they often ask for high school name and graduation date (at least for fresh uni graduates), and if you don’t write one it could raise flags, but only because Japan is in general not familiar with the US/Western system where there are multiple roads to success. In Japan, in my experience, there is only one acceptable pattern and being foreign is no excuse for being different. That’s a little cynical and a little exaggerated of course. But if it comes up, a GED is equivalent to a high school diploma in the US so the day you got it should count as your graduation date, right? I wouldn’t bother trying to explain and just simplify your life, since it doesn’t really matter what you did as a minor with limited autonomy.