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Visa

I'm all kinds of official now! Things are starting to really pick up. Last week I went up to the Japanese Consulate in New York and just a few days later, I have my visa! It was incredibly quick and easy once you have a little thing called a Certificate of Eligibility. Your employer in Japan has to apply for that ahead of time, but it basically says that the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no gripe with me. Aside from the fact that having the certificate makes getting a visa a breeze, I also am quite fond of it because it looks like a birth certificate with Japanese characters all over it and my picture. It was my first official piece of mail from Japan and I ran around showing it to everyone for days.

Certificate of Eligibility