Hello Nairalanders,
I need your advice badly to make an important decision.
Please your input will be highly appreciated.

I applied for a visa to travel to Japan in 2019 but it wasn't successful, so I forgot about it and focused on other stuff I was doing before that.

At the moment I have very good prospects and I'm very hopeful that my business would hit pay dirt very soon. I'm quite confident about that.

Now, sometime last year, a senior friend and brother who I respect asked me to send him my passport to be used in processing a Japanese visa for me. Incidentally, he was also involved in the first travel arrangements that failed.
Although I wasn't too keen on the idea by this time because I had my sights set on the project I was working on, but I didn't want to seem ungrateful to someone who was going out of his way to help; so I sent my passport thinking it wasn't going to click like the others.

But it worked out this time, I just received word today that the visa is out, in fact, I've received the soft copy via email.
Sadly, the visa was issued in the "AS TEMPORARY VISITOR" category which means that I cannot stay beyond 90 days, or work during the period.
It is purely a tourist/business visa.
When I expressed my reservations about this to my benefactor, he simply said that I should use the visa to get to Japan first, and find my way from there.
I'm not an immigration expert but I know enough to understand that I'll have to live like a fugitive if I violate the conditions of my visa, not to mention the risk of incarceration and deportation.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a pessimist or a coward, I guess I'm just trying to put my best feet forward, and minimise risks.

This has left me with mixed feelings and utter confusion.
I need good advise please.

So my questions to the "been to's" in the house are:
1. What are my chances of staying beyond my visitors visa and having it regularised into a work visa?

2. What are the risks of overstaying my visa?

3. Do I have great opportunities and prospects in Japan?

4. What skill set do I need to be employable in Japan?

Please kindly treat as urgent and important.

Thanks for your time and attention.

Bro Japaaaaaaaaaa to Japann!

Freemasonry:
Hello Nairalanders,
I need your advice badly to make an important decision.
Please your input will be highly appreciated.

I applied for a visa to travel to Japan in 2019 but it wasn't successful, so I forgot about it and focused on other stuff I was doing before that.

At the moment I have very good prospects and I'm very hopeful that my business would hit pay dirt very soon. I'm quite confident about that.

Now, sometime last year, a senior friend and brother who I respect asked me to send him my passport to be used in processing a Japanese visa for me. Incidentally, he was also involved in the first travel arrangements that failed.
Although I wasn't too keen on the idea by this time because I had my sights set on the project I was working on, but I didn't want to seem ungrateful to someone who was going out of his way to help; so I sent my passport thinking it wasn't going to click like the others.

But it worked out this time, I just received word today that the visa is out, in fact, I've received the soft copy via email.
Sadly, the visa was issued in the "AS TEMPORARY VISITOR" category which means that I cannot stay beyond 90 days, or work during the period.
It is purely a tourist/business visa.
When I expressed my reservations about this to my benefactor, he simply said that I should use the visa to get to Japan first, and find my way from there.
I'm not an immigration expert but I know enough to understand that I'll have to live like a fugitive if I violate the conditions of my visa, not to mention the risk of incarceration and deportation.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a pessimist or a coward, I guess I'm just trying to put my best feet forward, and minimise risks.

This has left me with mixed feelings and utter confusion.
I need good advise please.

So my questions to the "been to's" in the house are:
1. What are my chances of staying beyond my visitors visa and having it regularised into a work visa?

2. What are the risks of overstaying my visa?

3. Do I have great opportunities and prospects in Japan?

4. What skill set do I need to be employable in Japan?

Please kindly treat as urgent and important.

Thanks for your time and attention.

Japan embassy issuing visa?
You can deal on used Automobile parts and you wont regret it...
Please tell me the process you took to get your Visa and documents submitted.

I hope this thread makes it to FP.

Any young Nigerian who wants to leave this country LEGALLY should be encouraged by all and sundry. At the rate Buhari is going, I suspect he plans to trap all of us inside here, so run before he locks the gate.

In the next few years, only these Nigerians would be remaining inside Nigeria;
1)People who do not have the wherewithal.
2)People who have tried and have been unsuccessful.
3)The upper middle class. These ones don’t see the need to go start afresh somewhere else, they survive well here and can easily lock themselves out of 60% of Nigeria’s problem, while traveling around the world.
4)The rich who majority benefit from the state of this country.

Freemasonry:
Hello Nairalanders,
I need your advice badly to make an important decision.
Please your input will be highly appreciated.

I applied for a visa to travel to Japan in 2019 but it wasn't successful, so I forgot about it and focused on other stuff I was doing before that.

At the moment I have very good prospects and I'm very hopeful that my business would hit pay dirt very soon. I'm quite confident about that.

Now, sometime last year, a senior friend and brother who I respect asked me to send him my passport to be used in processing a Japanese visa for me. Incidentally, he was also involved in the first travel arrangements that failed.
Although I wasn't too keen on the idea by this time because I had my sights set on the project I was working on, but I didn't want to seem ungrateful to someone who was going out of his way to help; so I sent my passport thinking it wasn't going to click like the others.

But it worked out this time, I just received word today that the visa is out, in fact, I've received the soft copy via email.
Sadly, the visa was issued in the "AS TEMPORARY VISITOR" category which means that I cannot stay beyond 90 days, or work during the period.
It is purely a tourist/business visa.
When I expressed my reservations about this to my benefactor, he simply said that I should use the visa to get to Japan first, and find my way from there.
I'm not an immigration expert but I know enough to understand that I'll have to live like a fugitive if I violate the conditions of my visa, not to mention the risk of incarceration and deportation.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a pessimist or a coward, I guess I'm just trying to put my best feet forward, and minimise risks.

This has left me with mixed feelings and utter confusion.
I need good advise please.

So my questions to the "been to's" in the house are:
1. What are my chances of staying beyond my visitors visa and having it regularised into a work visa?

2. What are the risks of overstaying my visa?

3. Do I have great opportunities and prospects in Japan?

4. What skill set do I need to be employable in Japan?

Please kindly treat as urgent and important.

Thanks for your time and attention.

1)I don't know

2) deportation and ban, I guess.

3) yes, but you need to learn their language.

4) IT skills. And if you have your TEFL certification plus 12 years proof of learning via English, you can get an English teaching job. This requirements is only for non native English teachers

Freemasonry

Don't go!

If you ask me, I think you should go. Test and see first, Cause this country is hopeless..

Nigeria as it is presently today, is depression inducing. Anyone who have the opportunity to legally relocate to another Country with better prospects should not delay with the move.

uchman:



Japan embassy issuing visa?
You can deal on used Automobile parts and you wont regret it...
Please tell me the process you took to get your Visa and documents submitted.

Tnx for your advice bro.
I noticed you sent me a mail. Unfortunately I can’t access that now, so perhaps you could drop me your whatsapp number and I will hit you up.

Bodyodour:


1)I don't know

2) deportation and ban, I guess.

3) yes, but you need to learn their language.

4) IT skills. And if you have your TEFL certification plus 12 years proof of learning via English, you can get an English teaching job. This requirements is only for non native English teachers

Many thanks for your feedback.

pocohantas:
I hope this thread makes it to FP.

Any young Nigerian who wants to leave this country LEGALLY should be encouraged by all and sundry. At the rate Buhari is going, I suspect he plans to trap all of us inside here, so run before he locks the gate.

In the next few years, only these Nigerians would be remaining inside Nigeria;
1)People who do not have the wherewithal.
2)People who have tried and have been unsuccessful.
3)The upper middle class. These ones don’t see the need to go start afresh somewhere else, they survive well here and can easily lock themselves out of 60% of Nigeria’s problem, while traveling around the world.
4)The rich who majority benefit from the state of this country.

Succinct as always. Gracias!

Danielomisco:
Bro Japaaaaaaaaaa to Japann!

Your enthusiasm is making me giddy.
Thanks bro.

Sterope:
Freemasonry

Don't go!

You kept it really brief. Please more details will be appreciated.

Queenslander:
If you ask me, I think you should go. Test and see first, Cause this country is hopeless..

You have a really valid point.
Tnx.

Mindlog:
Nigeria as it is presently today, is depression inducing. Anyone who have the opportunity to legally relocate to another Country with better prospects should not delay with the move.

I thank you.

You can go to check out the place but never try to overstay your visa, you will regret it

Your future in japan is too uncertain. Don't fall for luck BS. It is too big a risk imo.

You definitely don't want to live like a fugitive or a prisoner for a good number of years. You can't move around freely. Friends and employers will take advantage of your illegal status, you will feel like shit. You will be forced to move around with people without questionable morals because of survival.

Freemasonry:

You kept it really brief. Please more details will be appreciated.

If your plan is to stay there illegally or overstay your visa you would fail woefully at it! Since Japan is a very homogeneous society a black illegal immigrant would never go unnoticed.

I would advise you go there and test the waters during the duration of your visa, if it fits then you can plan a second trip or extend your stay.

Speaking the host's country's language would open countless doors for you, learn it!

Mind you if you get deported you wont be allowed back into Japan for another 5 to 10 years.

For those who tried to reach out to me via email, I regret that I cannot access the email at the moment.
But I’m grateful for the effort you’ve made and would welcome the opportunity to interact.
You can either mail me instead at this address:
profitwithinternet@gmail.com or drop your whatsapp number.

Freemasonry:
Hello Nairalanders,
I need your advice badly to make an important decision.
Please your input will be highly appreciated.

I applied for a visa to travel to Japan in 2019 but it wasn't successful, so I forgot about it and focused on other stuff I was doing before that.

At the moment I have very good prospects and I'm very hopeful that my business would hit pay dirt very soon. I'm quite confident about that.

Now, sometime last year, a senior friend and brother who I respect asked me to send him my passport to be used in processing a Japanese visa for me. Incidentally, he was also involved in the first travel arrangements that failed.
Although I wasn't too keen on the idea by this time because I had my sights set on the project I was working on, but I didn't want to seem ungrateful to someone who was going out of his way to help; so I sent my passport thinking it wasn't going to click like the others.

But it worked out this time, I just received word today that the visa is out, in fact, I've received the soft copy via email.
Sadly, the visa was issued in the "AS TEMPORARY VISITOR" category which means that I cannot stay beyond 90 days, or work during the period.
It is purely a tourist/business visa.
When I expressed my reservations about this to my benefactor, he simply said that I should use the visa to get to Japan first, and find my way from there.
I'm not an immigration expert but I know enough to understand that I'll have to live like a fugitive if I violate the conditions of my visa, not to mention the risk of incarceration and deportation.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a pessimist or a coward, I guess I'm just trying to put my best feet forward, and minimise risks.

This has left me with mixed feelings and utter confusion.
I need good advise please.

So my questions to the "been to's" in the house are:
1. What are my chances of staying beyond my visitors visa and having it regularised into a work visa?

2. What are the risks of overstaying my visa?

3. Do I have great opportunities and prospects in Japan?

4. What skill set do I need to be employable in Japan?

Please kindly treat as urgent and important.

Thanks for your time and attention.

My advice is simple.

Make sure you have something here to fall back to if things do not work out over there. Life itself is an adventure so go out there and see things for yourself. Our destinies do not lay on the same part. The grass is not always greener on the other side does not apply to everyone.

Those questions you have asked can only be answered better by someone who knows the system over there. I dont. But i know you are a hustler so i tell you, go and see Tokyo. There is a world of possibilities out there. Goodluck and bon voyage!

Freemasonry:

Your enthusiasm is making me giddy.
Thanks bro.

welcme baba

If the Visa is a short stay, do according to the Visa terms (remember you're in another man's land). Japan have different category of Visa and each with their requirements and duration.

1. Anyone can overstay, it's their choice but, there each country with her consequences.

2. For Overstayers

stipulates that any overstayer may be
put into custody, deported from Japan
and will be rejected to enter in Japan
for at least 5 years after the date of
deportation.

3. S T E M ( science, technology, engineering and Mathematics ) are good field.

4. Good technical and engineering skills would help.

Freemasonry:
For those who tried to reach out to me via email, I regret that I cannot access the email at the moment.
But I’m grateful for the effort you’ve made and would welcome the opportunity to interact.
You can either mail me instead at this address:
profitwithinternet@gmail.com or drop your whatsapp number.

Hi Freemasonry
Please, Add me up on +2348132138153
I need some details from you..
thanks

Japan has opportunities, dont relent cus God will make a way!

Is better you go and have experience..
I think you w'd survive if you manage to enroll in language school over there, they'd help in either changing the visa status or give you guideline on what to do.
Secondly, stepping your feet their the first time, and having obeyed their visa dictates, w'd give you a good opportunity to secure another type of Visa for longer stay, that's if you must return at the exustion of this present visa...
Please go, do not allow this opportunity to pass you by..good luck.

Nicoswit:
You can go to check out the place but never try to overstay your visa, you will regret it

Thank you for your advice.

rafosky1:


My advice is simple.

Make sure you have something here to fall back to if things do not work out over there. Life itself is an adventure so go out there and see things for yourself. Our destinies do not lay on the same part. The grass is not always greener on the other side does not apply to everyone.

Those questions you have asked can only be answered better by someone who knows the system over there. I dont. But i know you are a hustler so i tell you, go and see Tokyo. There is a world of possibilities out there. Goodluck and bon voyage!

Much appreciated bro. Gracias!

Stephenmoka4:
If the Visa is a short stay, do according to the Visa terms (remember you're in another man's land). Japan have different category of Visa and each with their requirements and duration.

1. Anyone can overstay, it's their choice but, there each country with her consequences.

2. For Overstayers

stipulates that any overstayer may be
put into custody, deported from Japan
and will be rejected to enter in Japan
for at least 5 years after the date of
deportation.

3. S T E M ( science, technology, engineering and Mathematics ) are good field.

4. Good technical and engineering skills would help.

Thanks a lot.

Ninisun:
Japan has opportunities, dont relent cus God will make a way!

Thanks.

Alexbaby12:
Is better you go and have experience..
I think you w'd survive if you manage to enroll in language school over there, they'd help in either changing the visa status or give you guideline on what to do.
Secondly, stepping your feet their the first time, and having obeyed their visa dictates, w'd give you a good opportunity to secure another type of Visa for longer stay, that's if you must return at the exustion of this present visa...
Please go, do not allow this opportunity to pass you by..good luck.

I appreciate your insight, thanks.

Japan is a great country. One of the best in the world.
When you get there do your findings.