{"id":2326,"date":"2009-06-07T07:23:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T14:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2009-06-07T07:23:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T14:23:39","slug":"obtaining-a-working-visa-from-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/obtaining-a-working-visa-from-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Obtaining a working visa from Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plan was (is?) to land in Japan two months from today. However, I was just notified that it would take 8 weeks for Japan to process my &#8220;Certificate of Eligibility.&#8221; Once this is approved in Japan it comes to the US and requires another week for processing in the US before I have my visa to travel and live in Japan. According to my calculations we, therefore, won&#8217;t be landing in Japan two months from today. I asked if there was a way to expedite or rush the process and was told &#8220;no.&#8221; They did say some people get their visa in less than 8 weeks though. 6 weeks was given as an example. Frustrating. It isn&#8217;t fun when your life&#8217;s plan is held in someone else&#8217;s hands, or more accurately sits on some government official&#8217;s desk for some indeterminate time period, like 6 or 7 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan was (is?) to land in Japan two months from today. However, I was just notified that it would take 8 weeks for Japan to process my &#8220;Certificate of Eligibility.&#8221; Once this is approved in Japan it comes to the US and requires another week for processing in the US before I have my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}