straighten up your back and draw it in
your chin slightly 3 2 1 now
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you cheese filling out the paper loving
you what you need if you want to get a
picture for any Japanese document not
the passports for immigrants but for
Japanese documents our house take a
photo maybe it's a thousand yen no
9700 or 500-800
sorry Oh 800 and also if you wanna make
dinner
beautiful they're gonna so this is the
one that you need for you
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treyton up your back and draw it in your
chin slightly
please touch photoshoot and three
seconds later three two one
now you're not are you okay with this
photo one kid if it's open please
collect your photos from the tray on the
outside
my hair looks pink it's weird it looks
kind of weird it looks like white hair
oh wow
but I like this photo it looks it made
me actually Photoshop II a little bit
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okay so we're in Chiba right now and
we're I'm just waiting for Yugi to get
out of the bathroom I haven't been here
in a really long time I don't I haven't
actually never walked around here I know
we might go explore a little bit but I'm
so nervous about my visa and we're
number 97 and were their only m56
we should have came earlier like but
Nicky be on the floor bring our fake
socket a tree okay we've been doing
BuzzFeed quizzes for the past 30 minutes
with a very very low Wi-Fi and actually
there's no Wi-Fi it's just poor GLG or
3g juji's an introvert apparently I'm an
extrovert so he just finished getting
training in the whole all the stuff that
we needed to turn in and I was so
nervous and freaked out but it was nice
to have Yugi with me I feel like they
were so much nicer when I was with him
they're usually kind of rude when you
come here
this time they were like super nice and
we got everything turned done and and
everything looked pretty good so now I
just have to wait about a month or two
weeks hopefully it's gonna be two weeks
but you never know we'll have to see
that was a long wait I've been getting a
work visa for as long as I can remember
it's always a tedious task so make sure
you pay your taxes because if you don't
then you won't get a renewal for me
getting a spouse visa with my new name
on it made everything real and official
alright we're at Disney
during the corona epidemic and there's
like nobody here it's kind of funny oh
it's very close to
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after two long weeks and things getting
worse with the virus floating around I
heard back from immigration about my
visa it was accepted and it was a relief
I braved the crowds
yes the schools were open and people
were out shopping still to finally
obtain him
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I had a time limit to pick it up it was
a scariest thing waiting they're so
close to other people I did not like it
but I only waited 25 minutes and it was
official I only ended up with a one-year
visa but that was normal and my new name
was on the card so I'm super excited no
I am out and going home because I was at
immigration and now I'm outside and
there's people like over here at the
market in line super close to each other
people over here chatting kids playing
like in groups it's just ridiculous it's
madness people just don't care just
don't care they just don't care and the
government's doing nothing hey guys and
welcome back to my channel
I don't have my little mic with me today
but I do have another microphone
attached to my camera so hopefully you
guys can hear me okay so I wanted to
make a video about my marriage visa
because I got it it's called a spousal
visa not a marriage visa but I applied
for it I was scared I was nervous I was
like am I gonna get this aren't they
gonna believe us when it comes to being
a real couple because that's an issue
when it comes to applying for something
like this and it's not easy to get
especially if you just met like three
months ago and then you decided to get
married like that's very it's very rare
that they're gonna give you a visa
because of that that being said today I
wanted to talk about what the process is
and how I got it on the American side
because there are some things that you
have to do when it comes to name change
on the American side that's different
from any other country so after I did
the whole marriage thing we you know
filled out everything I made a video
about that as well so I talked about in
my last video how to get married in
Japan which is very simple and if you
don't know you can always call your City
Hall or your Embassy and they will give
you all the details about getting
married in Japan that's the easy part
that wasn't very hard took a couple
weeks for us to get everything but it
was super easy very simple
when it comes to getting a spouse visa
that is the most complicated thing
because a lot of the times they can be
rejected depending on how old your
partner is if they're much older than
you they tend to reject your visa if you
met recently or if you met online that
can also be rejected so I'm going to
talk about what you need to get a spouse
visa on the American side getting a
spouse visa in Japan is generally the
same I think for everybody but when it
comes to changing your name that's a
different thing you don't have to change
your name to get the visa but I opted to
do it because I wanted to show how
serious I was about this and taking
someone's name is that you're married to
just is a symbol of how you know
important the relationship is to me in
my opinion maybe not to everybody but
changing my name was important because
I'm married to him so it just made it
more official it felt more official so
the first thing that I did was I to
apply for a whole entire new passport
so I had to apply for that passport and
pay the fee I think it was a little over
a hundred dollars if I remember
correctly but you do have to pay a fee
to get a new passport and I applied for
that so the first thing that I did was
turn in a translation of our marriage
certificate they do have a template on
the American Embassy website where you
can just fill it out by yourself you
don't need your husband to fill it out
so I filled that out to show the that
the marriage is official and to be
completed it and then I had to turn in
the passport application and show them
my passport my current passport so I had
to get a whole entire new passport which
was insane because I just renewed my
passport like two years ago but now it's
renewed again so and it has my new name
on it it was super easy you don't have
to go back to America to change your
name you just go to the embassy turn in
those two things and your ID and
everything like that and signature and
then it takes about a month or so to get
your new passport I think it took about
three to four weeks to get my passport
and my name
well it's complete so I had my new name
which was amazing and I think that
really helps when you're going to apply
for a visa because it shows how serious
you are so after I changed my name then
I had to collect all the documents which
wasn't as hard as I thought it was gonna
be but it was a lot so he had to get you
G's family register which is in his ward
office in Toyama which is where he's
from so his parents sent that I filled
out an application I took a photo at the
train station which is another thing
that you need and then the most
difficult part was the questionnaire so
we had to fill out a questionnaire about
our life and how we met and you had to
just fill out our details about our work
and our job and where we came from and
just really personal things so that was
the longest part so basically I wrote
out how we met and then beauty
translated it and wrote it in Japanese
the questionnaire you cannot fill out by
yourself your spouse is the one that has
to fill the questionnaire out in
Japanese it took a couple hours to fill
out everything including the application
and then we had to fill out a letter of
guarantee from your spouse so again in
Japanese your spouse has to fill out a
guarantee saying yes I'm her husband I
am providing for her bla bla bla bla and
it was very simple that was very easy to
fill out it took like 2 minutes again
one application form questionnaire
letter of guarantee those are the three
most tedious things that you need so you
can print all of this out online from
your award office you need the Costa
Quito home which is the family register
which we got sent to us
you need a juninho Hill which is showing
all the family members in our household
so it's just me and my husband and you
can get that at the ward office as well
very easy took like five minutes and
your tax certificates now if you are
working and you're making over $2,000
which is two hundred thousand yen I
believe you can get your tax documents
you don't need your spouse's tax
documents so that was great because I
was working and I was paying taxes I'm
living independently in Japan for a very
long time so I got my what's it called
my nose a shil may show
and my causational may show which is
showing um
how much you paid for taxes and how much
you paid for health insurance so I had
to get those two documents took five
minutes when I went to the ward office
very very simple so you do not need your
marriage certificate they did not take
it at least so I would bring it with you
just in case but they didn't need to see
anything like that so you also need to
bring your passport yours ID you card
which is your resident card if you're
living here when it comes to getting
married and you're in America you do
need a CoA and that is to apply for a
visa to come over to Japan but I have no
experience and that I think you would
have to call the American Embassy or the
Japan Embassy in America in order to
figure that out
but if you're in Japan this is how you
do it and getting the gathering the
documents at the ward office was very
simple I didn't have any issue with that
it took a couple hours to fill out all
the stuff but generally it was pretty
quick and easy and then we went to the
immigration office which was the worst
timing to go because it's during the
virus and the season and it's just
really bad right now so that really
sucked we had to wait there for three or
four hours not not four hours maybe
three hours total which wasn't as bad as
I thought it was gonna be but we did
have to wait for a very long time so we
brought stuff to do when we were there
we turned in our stuff they looked
through it the guy seemed pleasantly
happy that I was living in Japan already
so that was a plus that made me feel a
little bit better and it's good to take
your husband with you if you're going by
yourself I feel like it's fine but I
feel like it looks better when your
husband is with you so I'm really glad
that Yuji went with me and he was able
to talk to the guy that you not speak
any English at any immigration office
which blows my mind to this day so you
do it would be ideal to bring someone
that can speak the language which was my
husband and then it took about two and a
half weeks to get the visa I was so
worried about it and it's always hard
waiting for the process when you do that
you have a receipt that's stamped into
your the passport and I brought that
with me
and then I had to go to the post office
downstairs in the immigration office
they do have a post office and then ask
for a 4000 yen stamp and that is to that
pay the processing fee so I brought the
processing fee stamp and the receipt and
my Ziya tu card my old one because
they're gonna punch a hole in it so you
can't use it anymore and then they're
gonna give you your new one I brought my
passport obviously because I had never
seen it it was insanely crowded I was so
terrified because you know this is the
worst timing but I really wanted to get
my visa they'll send you a postcard in
the mail saying what you need to bring
and if it has a checkmark next to the
price of what you need to pay for the
processing fee that means you got it so
I was really excited but I only had
until May to go pick it up which is
about a month so there is a deadline
where you have to go pick it up and I
just wanted to get it over with so I
went there got it came right straight
back I'm just so happy that I got it it
took a long time and a lot of stress
it's all good now and super happy where
it's official seeing my name on the card
was magical seeing and then hearing my
name was magical too because they were
like what did the Sun and I was just
like oh my gosh so I was super excited
about that it's official I got my
passport renewed and I got my new
resident card which is amazing it's only
one year which is normal when you get
married because they don't want to give
three years to somebody that you know
they might get divorced or something
like that you never know so when it
comes to relationship stuff they tend to
give you one year and that may happen
for the next two or three years and then
eventually if you've been together for a
long time they'll give you a three-year
and that's when you can apply for
permanent residency so I am NOT a
permanent residence I still have to get
a visa my husband and sponsoring me and
I'm gonna tell you what you can do on
this visa which is pretty interesting
it's similar to a work visa but this
time you can work anywhere you want you
don't have to work at all you can work
two part-time jobs can work one
part-time job you can work a full-time
job any way you want which is what is
super amazing about this visa I don't
have to worry about a company sponsoring
me
and getting fired or something or you
know trying to find frantically find a
good job in Japan when I have my husband
sponsoring me so it's it's really great
to have that freedom now I think it's
gonna be easier from now on to get a
visa after you get it initially so I'm
not exactly sure how to apply again for
the second time there must be some kind
of application where you can fill out an
update of your marriage and that's
basically what you have to do I think
it's the same documents that you need so
it's gonna be another headache of a
process I'm sure next year I usually
tend to reapply for a visa two months in
advance because that's how I am but you
can apply all the way up to like the day
before it expires and then they'll
they'll automatically extend your visa
once you turn it in so I'm sure that's
going to be a bit of a process as well
but anyway if you guys have any other
questions I'd love to answer them in the
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