So.
Yeah, it's not clickbait.
You know, I really, I really, really wish that it
was clickbait, but nope, my Japan working visa extension
application that I talked about in the video like months ago,
it was rejected and that's why I'm back in Australia and
that's why
it's why so many things.
Oh, it's just been one
one hell of a year, is what it's been.
I'm really going to try my best to get through this
video without crying.
I'm in a good mood today, so maybe I won't cry,
but we'll see, Gosh, where to start?
So I've obviously known about this for months and I didn't
want to talk about it on the channel because I still have a
bunch of videos left to edit.
And if I put this out and then I have a bunch of videos and
there's like this sad undertone of like, "this is her last trip
before she leaves" kind of thing.
So I wanted those videos to just be fun and on
their own entirely, without this this terrible
storm just like looming over it.
I applied for my visa extension.
When was it?
At the end of May.
You know, there's a two month kind of waiting period where
you're like, will it be extended ?
Will it not?
And, you know, like up until this point, everyone around me
had just told me, like, "you'll be fine.
Like you'll be totally fine.
You've got nothing to worry about.
It's a legit company.
It's a legit job.
You're not lying about anything on the application.
Everything's going to be fine." Then.
It was a couple of weeks later that I found out that the
application was rejected.
My heart just, like, sank.
Like this thing that I knew was entirely a possibility.
Of course, I knew that it was possible that it was going to
be rejected, but I just never thought that it really would
happen because everyone around me was saying, You'll be fine,
everything will be fine.
I was just entirely in shock.
Still, we don't know the reason for the rejection yet, so we
have to go to immigration to actually talk with them and
they'll give us like a rough explanation of why it was
rejected and the reasoning behind it to see what
my options are.
I can see that...
Um.
I should be able to see that on Monday.
Yeah I've staked a lot on being able to stay in Japan
this year.
It's not the end of the world.
I know it's not.
It's a relatively small problem to have in relation to the
problems that there are out there.
So I went to Tokyo.
Oh, my stomach was like, in knots the entire time.
So I had to just, like, watch Sex in the City again and
again because it's that comfort movie that I always put on.
Like if I, if I'm feeling sad or anxious or whatever,
just put on Sex in the City, you'll be fine.
So basically, the inspector said that the reason that my
visa was rejected was because the details in the application
and the job description didn't match the kind of visa that we
were applying for.
It was just in my best interest to go home, back to Australia
and try again from Australia, because the visa application,
if you're trying from outside the country, is quite different
to when you're trying from inside the country.
And so I picked a date, the earliest date possible that
I could leave.
I left August 5th and I have been back in
Australia ever since.
And
oh, boy.
It's been really...
Here it comes.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's been really rough.
It's been a really.
really rough month.
I left Chris at the airport and that sucked.
And then I...
I came back to Australia.
Um.
Get back in there.
I'm not crying on camera today.
It's not that I don't
love Australia and that I don't love my family and my friends.
It's been amazing catching up with all of them
But.
The thing that really sucks...
Oh, all right.
Come on.
Come on, come on.
The whole time in the pandemic-t he whole time in the two and a
half years that I was away from Australia.
I was so homesick.
I just...
I wanted more than anything to go back to Australia.
And I was...
I was just so excited for the day that I could finally go
home and see my family and my friends again.
And I was
like, "That's going to be amazing.
That's going to that's going to be so exciting."
Come on.
I was really looking
forward to it.
And then this happened and it just..
.
It felt like
it stole the joy away that I was supposed to
feel coming home.
I didn't get to do that this time.
Oh, I'm crying now.
It's happening.
It's all it's all flowing.
Especially for the first month.
I just felt really lost and ohhh come on.
And I felt like I...
lacked any purpose.
or
direction.
I wasn't excited
to meet them.
because it meant that I was going to have to explain this.
This really bad thing that's happened to me.
And I was going to have to explain all the details.
And I knew that I wasn't
much fun to hang around anyway.
Because I'm just kind of sad and and I didn't want to
*sigh*
I didn't want to be a downer on my friends and my family.
So I didn't want to- I just didn't want to meet up
with some people.
I couldn't bear to talk about it anymore.
It's been bad.
It's been really bad.
I don't mean to be dramatic or anything, but it's
been pretty terrible.
And it's not just about
leaving Japan because "I love Japan so much."
Like my-
Is that a spider?
Welcome to Australia.
My whole life is in Japan.
My loving boyfriend and my apartment that I'm still
paying rent for, and my jeep that I just finished building,
I just got the rooftop put on and then I can't
use it anymore, and my job, in so many ways, is in Japan.
I know that YouTube, I can take it anywhere and I
am so, so thankful for that.
But it's
all there.
My whole life is there.
My whole life has been there for the past like eight years.
And then to have to leave and I don't know when I'll be able to
continue my life.
So basically that's a part that really,
really sucks and it's
not just this as well.
There was another big, big, big.
Big thing that happened in my life, like just a couple of
months before I found out that my visa was rejected.
So imagine something as big as getting a visa rejected and
just double it.
And both of those things happened to me in the span of,
you know, a couple of months.
And it's just like one thing after another that just really
made for a sad, sad, sad Hannah.
So to apply for a visa from outside the country, the job
that's going to sponsor you, they have to apply for a
"certificate of eligibility" it's called.
"COE" It's basically like an entry permit.
Once they send that COE to me, then I can take that to an
embassy in Brisbane and apply for a visa.
Once you apply for the COE, it can take, they say,
about two months to get it back, to get a
response at least.
And so it could be a little bit less, but it could be
a lot longer.
And I found online there's a forum that a friend recommended
to me and it's just like a bunch of people talking about
how long this is taking and then people are saying they've
been waiting for three months and they still haven't
haven't heard anything.
So it's looking like it's going to take a lot longer.
It might not hear anything until like the end
of November.
Hi, everyone.
Just quickly, I would like to add some information that I'm
sure everyone's already thinking and
commenting already.
Also, hi, this is my quarantine hotel in Taiwan.
So, yeah, obviously it was announced yesterday that the
borders to Japan are opening from October 11th
onwards for tourists.
And so you probably thinking, why don't you just go back on a
tourist visa?
It would just be like a little Band-Aid on the on the whole
gravity of the situation because it's not
a sustainable thing.
And I, I don't want to visit my life.
I want to live my life there.
So getting a visa is my utmost priority.
Is it upmost?
But anyway look at my hotel, the bed is so big.
For what?
It's just me!
Here's the thing, though.
I am fully, fully aware and grateful and so thankful that I
have YouTube as my job and and I have this audience of people
that supports me.
And I know you guys just want the best for me and you want me
to make good content and that kind of thing.
And I, I am so.
over the moon and so grateful for.
this, you know, And people usually say, I had a
really terrible year.
It usually starts with, you know, a family member died
or something like that.
No one is injured or sick or dead in my in my life.
I know like the gravity of the situation,
it's not that big.
I know that I'm probably going to look back on this in a years
time and I'll be like, "Oh, I was so stressed about that.
It was only three months long.
What was I so stressed about?" A nd I'm looking forward to that
time to when I can just look back at this and and
shrug it off.
But yeah.
Oh, my tea is just cold now.
I've been filming for 32 minutes.
That's why.
I do want to make a video of things back in Australia.
I've been filming little things here and there and little trips
that have been going on, but honestly, the first month
of me being here, I wasn't feeling up for
filming anything.
I think I cried like, like every second day
in August, I think, yeah.
Anyway, that's what's been going on.
It's not the end of the world.
I will be back in Japan.
I have to be because my entire life is there.
I'm sorry if this video is really, really sad...
Because it is because I'm sad.
I want to put a positive spin on things, but I am not coming
up with a lot.
Hopefully I will put together a happy video from Australia.
It will not be this sad because this one was pretty sad.
Damn, I'm rambling so much.
Thank you so much for all of your support.
It means- it means
the world to me.
It really, really does.
And for you watching this video all the way to the end and
supporting me: it's amazing.
And I will see you guys in a much happier video.
In a much happier place:
Taiwan.
That was a strange way to end it.
I'll see you guys later.
Goodbye.