A few days ago, the news about the tightening of Japanese visa application materials has been rumored. Now, the news has landed, according to the latest news released by Japanese Visa Express official website.
From May 2008 17, the application materials for three-year multiple-entry visas in Japan have become more stringent. All applicants who submit three-year multiple-entry visas must provide real air tickets and hotel reservation forms.
Japan's new visa policy
1, simplified materials are limited! All information is reviewed by the embassy.
2, air tickets and accommodation key requirements, must provide real travel information!
3. Air ticket: e-ticket form (with reservation number of six digits;
4, hotel: everyone should provide (a family of three everyone, regardless of adults and children, but also reflect. In addition, for Japan's three-year visa-related travel requirements,
Precautions:
Although official website, the Japanese Embassy, has not made a clear announcement, it has informed all travel agencies that under the new policy of 2008, Japan's three-year multiple-entry visa must travel once within three months from the effective date of the visa, otherwise the visa will be invalid! ! !
After becoming stricter, the difficulty coefficient of applying for a three-year round-trip visa has increased compared with the past, so friends who want to travel to Japan in the near future must pay attention to these objective changes in order to pass the three-year visa more smoothly.
How to apply for a Japanese visa? What are the specific differences between various types of visas?
Japanese visa processing
I. Classification of Japanese visas:
(1 Japanese residents' individual tourist visas to China are free travel visas, valid for 90 days, with a maximum stay of 15 days. Japan's general tourism, free travel is such a visa;
(2) visas for Japanese residents to visit China in groups (that is,' group tours');
(3) Three-year multiple-entry visa;
Individual tourist visas, which can be used many times within the validity period of 3 years, are issued to:
1, "People with sufficient financial capacity and their families"
2. "People who have visited Japan with short-term visas in the last three years and have certain economic ability and their families", and those who visit Japan for the first time include any one of Okinawa Prefecture or three northeastern counties (Iwate Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture), that is, when tourists who apply for multiple visas for three years enter Japan, their first stop must be to Okinawa or three northeastern counties and stay at least 1 night before they can go to other counties in Japan.
(4) Five-year multiple-entry visa;
It can be used many times within the validity period of 5 years, and it is distributed to "people with high income and their families". Different from the above (3), the destination to Japan is not restricted.
(The difference between a three-year multiple visa and a five-year multiple visa.
Second, the handling method:
Japan does not support personal delivery, and it must go through a qualified travel agency or agency;
Third, the ownership of territorial area:
First of all, you must know the consular section of the Japanese consulate to which you belong. Visa requirements in Japan vary from place to place!
Beijing area: Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu, Henan, Hebei, Hubei, Hunan, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Dalian;
Shanghai: Shanghai, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi;
Guangzhou territory: Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian and Guangxi;
Territory of Shenyang: Liaoning (except Dalian, Jilin and Heilongjiang;
Chongqing territory: Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan;
Qingdao Territory: Shandong Province;
Hong Kong: Hong Kong and Macau
Office workers apply for a daily visa according to their workplace and whether they have a local work permit:
If the household registration is not in Beijing, but you have worked in Beijing for a long time and have a Beijing residence permit and residence registration card (Beijing residence permit, or social security certificate of more than 1 year (one of the three, show your work certificate and business license in Beijing), you can apply for a visa directly from Beijing.
Four, free travel visa information:
1, original passport, valid for more than 6 months;
Passport requirements: valid for six months. For example, if you go to Japan on June 1 and return to Beijing on June 6, you should check the validity period of this passport when issuing a visa. Whether it has been more than half a year before June 6 (counting from the date of returning to China;
2. Two 2-inch color photos with white background (nearly 6 months old, with dimensions of 3.5*4.5 or 4.5 * 4.5);
3. Proof of household registration and kinship
① ID card:
Copy the front and back on a piece of A4 paper. This is not difficult. The ID card cannot expire.
② Household registration book:
One household registration book for the whole family, one piece of paper per page. If the husband and wife are not in the same household registration book, please provide their own household registration books together. Pay attention to what is called page change (that is, page change with a small chapter on the back is called page change)
③ Relationship proof:
There are immediate family members (parents, spouses, children), and if the information cannot reflect the kinship, the original proof of kinship or the original proof of kinship issued by the police station should be provided.
Marriage certificate, note: a copy of marriage certificate is required for both husband and wife to travel together.
1. If married, provide a copy of marriage certificate;
2. If divorced, provide a copy of the divorce certificate;
3. If it is lost, please provide the original marriage certificate issued by the Civil Affairs Bureau and the police station and stamp it.
4, on-the-job certification requirements
Use the company's regular stationery to print, all contents are in Chinese, and stamped with the company's red seal. Note: The annual income in the employment certificate must be above 6,543,800 yuan!
5. Personal assets certificate
The following eight conditions generally meet 1: Travel agencies have different requirements.
A. The original personal income tax bill for the last 12 months (about 3,600 yuan was paid in the last year (consistent with the tax bill provided;
B, nearly 12 months of the original salary list (in line with the annual salary of 654.38 million yuan, need to reflect the words such as salary and bonus (in line with the provisions of the salary list;
C. Social security: printed social security (stamped with social security seal+social security website, password and user name (654.38 million yuan of employment certificate+social security receipt;
D. I have proof of fixed assets such as automobile production, real estate, stocks, funds, wealth management and deposits. In my own name (in line with the employment certificate of 654.38 million yuan+fixed assets certificate;
E, registered lawyers, accountants, doctors, teachers, architects, sommeliers and other relevant staff holding national accreditation certificates, registered online and practiced for more than two years (online search, and passed the annual review (in line with providing 654.38 million yuan of employment certificate+copy of qualification certificate;
F, civil servants and above positions (in line with the provisions of the 6.5438+10,000 yuan on-the-job certificate;
G. I have been to developed countries in Europe and America within five years, and my passport has a visa page, which can be signed by an individual/group/business (654.38 million yuan of employment certificate is eligible;
H. Those who travel to Japan freely within three years and have no bad record in Japan (qualified to provide employment certificate of 654.38 million yuan;
Freelance: write a statement of freelancing income (no fixed format+300,000 deposit certificate).
6. Application form for going to Japan:
7, personal information processing consent, generally also has a template, signed and printed by myself;
/kloc-The consent form for the processing of personal information of minors under 0/8 years of age requires the signature of both parents, and the child's name and both parents' names should be signed.
Note: If many people travel together and apply for a visa at the same time, you can only fill in one personal information processing consent form. Please print the names of all applicants in this consent form, and each name must be signed by myself.
8. Multiple visas for three/five years
More than three years.
You need to provide a hotel check-in form for staying at least one night in Okinawa or three northeastern counties (Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima) (when checking out, the hotel is required to provide the original, a copy of the passport front page and a copy of the border inspection stamp page.
More than five years.
You need to provide the original hotel check-in slip, a copy of the first page of your passport and a copy of the stamped page of border clearance.
Tips: In the past, all the materials were provided to the suppliers who applied for visas after you returned to China.
9. Air tickets and hotel reservation forms (if any) should also be provided.
Matters needing attention
If you use the gold card to simplify the processing, please submit two color copies of your credit card gold card (the front and back are on a piece of A4 paper; Credit cards must have the words Gold Card, Gold Card, Platinum Card, etc. Without these words, it can't be accepted; My signature is needed on the back of the credit card.
As for the deposit, this is actually a requirement of the travel agency. Ensure that you can return to China on time and try to choose the ones provided by the travel agency.
Special population:
Retirees: if the applicant is a retiree, a copy of the retirement certificate is provided, and the employment certificate and business license are not provided.
Students in school: If you are a student, you need to provide a copy of your student ID card or proof of studying, and provide proof of your parents' employment and business license, real estate and automobile production.
Unemployed person: If the applicant has no employer, he/she shall provide the certificate of residence committee. ★ About college students applying for visas
From June 65438+ 10/day, 2008, undergraduates, postgraduates and graduates of 1 243 universities affiliated to the Ministry of Education of China can apply for visas to Japan without proof of assets, and provide academic credentials online.
List of National Undergraduate Colleges Newly Published by the Ministry of Education
See official website, Ministry of Education for a detailed list.
Say the visa is ready, and then it's time to travel:
At present, the cherry blossom season in Japan is coming to an end, and students who haven't seen it can only wait until next year.
However, there are wonderful things everywhere in Japan all year round, and the curtain call of the cherry blossom season has also opened the curtain of this early summer # Japan Fireworks Conference #!
The Japanese are serious about setting off fireworks. Throughout the summer, fireworks were set off in an organized and disciplined way throughout the country. No other country will do this except Japan.
Put on a bathrobe, stand on clogs, watch fireworks, go to a garden party, eat octopus balls, roast squid, cotton candy, fish goldfish, throw darts and draw lots. You can try the classic pictures in Japanese dramas and comics during the Japan Fireworks Festival.
(Yamashita Tomohisa once said: "All the memories of summer are bathrobes, fireworks and Masami Nagasawa." In the romantic impression, how many confessions and how many beautiful moments are fixed under this gorgeous fireworks? Picture the light of life
Just like the map of cherry blossoms, the fireworks festival also has maps that can be queried by region and time. Suggestions/You can query by region or date, which is comprehensive and convenient.
(Note: Both the map and the date are available, and the date hasn't come out yet, but the time of the year generally won't change, for your reference. They are all concentrated in July, August, September,1October, especially in August, and there are fireworks exhibitions almost every day.