visas

Some 40,000 foreign workers are expected to be accepted in the first year the new visa categories go into effect, with the total rising to 250,000 after five years, government sources said Saturday. The government, which submitted a related bill to revise the immigration control ...

The Justice Ministry has announced the gist of draft revisions to laws including the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act to create two new types of visa.

Hundreds of Venezuelans swarmed outside the Chilean Consulate Monday hoping to get a new visa created by Santiago to offer a new home for people desperate to leave the crisis-wracked country. As the consulate is closed on Mondays, the crowd of some 400 jostled to ...

North Korea's men's and women's national soccer teams arrived Tuesday at Tokyo's Haneda airport from Beijing, gaining entry with visas issued despite Japan's ongoing ban on citizens from the country. The players are scheduled to take part in the East Asian Football Federation's upcoming E-1 ...

The United Arab Emirates said on Thursday it was ending the mission of North Korea's nonresident ambassador and terminating its own envoy's services in Pyongyang, the foreign ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency WAM. The UAE would also stop issuing new ...

The Justice Ministry has drafted guidelines to help companies that want to hire international students understand the types of jobs eligible for granting visas. The guidelines, released Friday, focus on fields related to creativity and culture, such as animation, manga, fashion, design and food. They ...

Claiming that its refugee system is being abused by foreign job seekers, the government considers arresting some asylum seekers once their visas expire.

Sayaka Hirose is a Tokyo-based immigration lawyer specializing in assisting Indonesians coming to Japan. She says that in the past two years her clients have been seeking legal advice on an issue she had never encountered before. In 2016, about 70 Indonesians asked her about ...