College visa
When you receive education in Japanese education institution, the visa is College visa in general. Applicants who wish to study for long-term need to acquire this visa.
- Condition of acquisition
- 1Age 18 or over
Completed higher education institutions with high school or above - Remarks:
- Japan's educational system is consisted of 12 years of 6-3-3 and then students advance to higher education like university. Educational system of some countries doesn't fulfill 12 years before higher education. If applicants from these countries graduated from high school as final educational background, they can't advance to higher education in Japan. If you graduated from high school with grade-skipping, there is no problem about this matter.
- Duration of study:
- 2 years maximum
- Time of starting a course
- The starting date is only 4 times a year; January, April, July, and October. Also please note the procedure takes long time to acquire the visa. Regarding the necessary documents and procedure, please see here. It is permitted to take on part-time job within 4 hours a day. As the main purpose of this visa is study, your attendance rate should not be below 80%.
When you are going to study over 1 year, you are applied to National Health Insurance. If you acquire this, you can receive medical treatment at hospital with 30% of total cost.
Procedures for applicants who need College visa
Procedure |
Starting dates & deadline |
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| April | July | October | January | |
| Send necessary documents and processing fee to our institute. We will stop recruiting when maximum class numbers are reached.
↓ We translate and check all the documents you sent to us.↓ We hand your documents into Immigration Office in Japan.↓ Immigration Office checks your documents.↓ When your documents are confirmed by Immigration Office, a Certificate of Eligibility (Permission from Japanese Government to be granted a College visa) is issued.↓ We invoice the rest of the fees (Registration fee and Tuition for 1 year, Maintenance fee & Social Activity fee).↓ Applicants remit the invoiced fee to our bank account.↓ After confirmation of payment, we send the Admission Certificate and the Certificate of Eligibility to you.↓ Applicants hand in the documents to apply for the visa at Japanese embassy.↓ depart to Japan. |
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