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Newland Chase offers full support with all aspects of corporate immigration to Japan. Please find an overview of the typical corporate immigration processes below. Every situation is unique, so please do get in touch, either through your usual Newland Chase contact or using the details on the right hand side of the page. Our immigration experts will be glad to discuss your needs in greater detail.

Newland Chase Japan provides corporations and individuals in Japan with complete support for all their immigration and visa needs – inbound to Japan, permanent residency of Japan, and outbound to more than 190 countries. Our full spectrum of services allows us to manage all of your requirements for business visas, employee immigration, and permanent resident applications.

Our Japan team, located in central Tokyo, supports every region of Japan—Hokkaido, Chubu region, Kansai region, Shikoku, Kyushu region, and Okinawa. With more than 17 years of experience supporting Japan immigration, we provide comprehensive strategic immigration solutions for complex business challenges. Offering a complete solution, we also assist with document translation, procurement, legalization, apostilles, consular authentication, and notarization in Japan.

Japan Leadership

Our Japan team members are highly qualified and dedicated professionals with extensive experience in all aspects of Japanese immigration. They come from the best of legal, consulting, in-house corporate and government backgrounds and bring a breadth of experience and insight both in immigration and a multitude of industry sectors. With a dedication to service and a consultative approach, our people act as your trusted advisors and partners in achieving your business goals in Japan.

Shuji Yamaguchi

Immigration Director, Japan

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We provide support in all areas of Japanese immigration for corporations and individuals – from short-term work authorization and temporary residency to long-term work authorization, and permanent residency, including both company employees and individuals, and also accompanying family members. Our approach covers the entire lifecycle of assignments, from comprehensive guidance of immigration options, pre-planning of new assignments, completion of in-country requirements, to ongoing compliance monitoring.

For up-to-date information on the most common work authorization routes in Japan, see the Immigration Summary section.

Comprehensive Global Immigration Management

For corporations and individuals located in Japan, we also provide support in all areas of immigration to more than 190 countries around the world. Our Japan team is part of the larger Newland Chase global team of 1,700+ expert immigration and visa professionals—specializing in everything from short-term work assignments and temporary residency, to long-term work assignments, and permanent residency throughout the world.

Business Traveler Management

Business visas are a key component of a globally mobile workforce—allowing individuals to enter Japan and other countries for non-work business activities. Business visas typically apply to business meetings, seminars, conferences, trade shows, limited sales activities, contract negotiations, and some supervisory activities. Newland Chase offers comprehensive services for business travelers both inbound to Japan and outbound to more than 190 countries.

Our services include everything from personalized assessment of the activities and destination for visa compliance, to obtaining the proper visas, to tracking the number and length of stays of your business travelers for legal compliance.

Immigration Policy and Compliance

Our Japan immigration experts offer an extensive suite of advisory services and immigration compliance strategies to ensure that your organization and employees remain compliant with all Japanese immigration and visa requirements. Our services include strategic guidance on immigration plans, development and implementation of immigration policies, sponsor compliance, education and training, audit support, and immigration compliance technology solutions.

Consulting and Advisory Services

Our Japan immigration experts act as trusted business advisors—supporting you in virtually any immigration-related need, no matter how unique or complex. Our Japan team can manage the scope of immigration in large-scale projects and employee moves, as well as guide you through the immigration complexities involved in corporate restructuring or mergers and acquisitions.

Japan Immigration Summary

Japan has several categories of working visa based on the applicant’s specialism or the nature of the employment or assignment. A working visa applicant first requires a Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Ministry of Justice. The visa is usually issued for one, three or five years and may be renewed indefinitely.

For Engineers or Specialists in Humanities or International Services, the applicant must have an employment contract directly with the Japanese entity. However, in some very limited circumstances, on a case-by-case basis, it may be possible for an intra-company transferee (where an appropriate corporate relationship exists) who does not have the twelve months of experience with the sending entity required to qualify for the dedicated Intra-Company Transferee category, to remain on home contract and still qualify for this category.

The Business Manager category is applicable to an applicant with more than three years of management experience who will work at a company in Japan, or a foreign national who is establishing a new business in Japan. The employment contract can be held either in the home country or in Japan.

For the Intra-Company Transferee working visa, the applicant must have worked for the sending company for at least twelve months and must not have a local contract in Japan. The sending company outside Japan and the host company in Japan must be linked by common ownership.

Applicants who meet certain criteria, assessed on a points-based system, may receive Highly Skilled Professional status, which confers preferential immigration treatment on the holder, including additional benefits for dependents, fast-track processing and a faster route to permanent residence.

To qualify, the applicant must score at least 70 points on the Ministry of Justice points-based system and be engaged in advanced academic research, advanced specialised/technical activities or advanced business management activities.

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Level 27, Tokyo Sankei Building, 1-7-2 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan 100-0004

+81 3 3242 6360

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