It should be okay, your employer should know your residence address, nationality, status of residency, age, emergency contacts and so on, especially if they provide visa sponsorship for you. I’ve been asked these kind of things for all of my jobs.
If you want to be extra careful you can check some information online on your employer and check if it looks legit.
It really is getting ridiculous how even *recruiters* and *potential* employers are doing this with job applicants. They absolutely do not need *copies* of these things, though they will want to confirm the information on them. They’re asking for *their* convenience without paying much thought to your safety.
Almost every detail an employer would need can be covered using the *jūminhyō* certificate of residential matters, obtainable at city hall (or at some convenience stores if you have a My Number card); it’s a great system that everyone should make use of. If you send them a copy of that and it leaks, you don’t have anywhere near as much to worry about compared to if a copy of a passport or residence card leaks.
Another thing you can do if you really want the job and they won’t consider you if you don’t send them those copies is to put a post-it note over part of it and write the date and the name of the employer.
Even if you do send copies, odds are nothing bad will happen, but these days it can take hundreds of applications to find a job, so why tempt fate over and over? Protect yourself from identity theft.
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It should be okay, your employer should know your residence address, nationality, status of residency, age, emergency contacts and so on, especially if they provide visa sponsorship for you. I’ve been asked these kind of things for all of my jobs.
If you want to be extra careful you can check some information online on your employer and check if it looks legit.
It really is getting ridiculous how even *recruiters* and *potential* employers are doing this with job applicants. They absolutely do not need *copies* of these things, though they will want to confirm the information on them. They’re asking for *their* convenience without paying much thought to your safety.
Almost every detail an employer would need can be covered using the *jūminhyō* certificate of residential matters, obtainable at city hall (or at some convenience stores if you have a My Number card); it’s a great system that everyone should make use of. If you send them a copy of that and it leaks, you don’t have anywhere near as much to worry about compared to if a copy of a passport or residence card leaks.
Another thing you can do if you really want the job and they won’t consider you if you don’t send them those copies is to put a post-it note over part of it and write the date and the name of the employer.
Even if you do send copies, odds are nothing bad will happen, but these days it can take hundreds of applications to find a job, so why tempt fate over and over? Protect yourself from identity theft.