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VISA Q and A on FM COCOLO 76.5 MHz Changing from student status to working visa (2) On Aired Data: July 17, 2001 |
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Summary of the Aired Program |
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There are two cases/clients mentioned in this broadcast. One is a female who graduated with honors from a computer school in Japan, and applied to change her student visa to a working visa to work for a trading company. The other is also a female who has a degree in archeology, and also applied to change her student visa to a working visa to work in the International trading department of a company. Unfortunately, in both cases the application was denied. The reason for the denial given by the immigration office was that “the field they majored in does not relate to the job they applied for, nor did they have 10 years or more experience in the field”. As you may already know, there are restrictions when changing the student visa to a working visa. The main condition would be that the job and what they majored in are related, or they have 10 years of experience in the field, which unfortunately both did not fulfill. If they had received legal advice before they had handed in the documents, both cases are not that difficult. But unfortunately they thought there was no problem. In the first case, the client worked in the company as a part timer and she did very well. So she and her boss thought there would be no problem in getting the working visa. And in the second case, she was going to work for the company as a translator, but since she would be helping out her colleagues in the International trading department, she and her boss agreed for her to apply for her to work in the trading department. Foreign students are normally permitted to obtain the working visa to work as a translator for a company, so if they did so in the first place, there would have been no trouble. Keep in mind that once a visa application is denied, it is very difficult to obtain permission on the second try. But anyway, in the first case, we handed in documents stating that although she would be working in a trading company, where it as though seems that there is no relation to her major, there really is. Nowadays, you cannot work without being able to use the computer, nor without the Internet, which obviously relates to her major. She would be helping the company by using the Internet as much as possible. And in the second case, we applied her as working as a translator in the International Department. |
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