How many years can an IT engineer work in Japan?
The type of Japanese work visa for foreign IT engineers is "Technical/Humanities/International Services". How many years will this visa allow them to work in Japan?
"Technical/Humanities/International Services" visa for IT engineers
The term "work visa" is one you hear a lot, isn't it? However, there is no visa named "work visa" in Japan. There are 19 types of visas that allow foreign nationals to work in Japan, and IT engineers, in principle, obtain one of them, the "Technical, Humanities, and International Services" visa. This type of visa is issued to so-called "white-collar" foreigners who are contracted by companies, organizations, etc., and require specialized and technical backgrounds, such as clerical workers and engineers. The majority of foreign nationals working for companies in Japan are working under this "Technical/Humanities/International Services" visa.
Renewable as long as being employed
Under the Japanese system, the number of years a foreign national can stay in Japan on a visa depends on the company that employs the foreign national and processes the visa application. Therefore, you will not know how many years of visa you will receive until you apply, but it will be one of the 1, 3, or 5 year periods. Even if the initial visa period is one year, that does not mean that you can only work in Japan for one year. The "Technical/Humanities/International Services" visa can be renewed as long as the foreign national continues to work for a company. Therefore, you can stay in Japan practically forever.
No need to worry about the number of years you can work
The "Technical/Humanities/International Services" visa for foreign IT engineers can be renewed as long as the foreigner continues to work for a company. With this visa, foreign nationals who are employed by a company in Japan can stay in Japan for practically the entire time. Therefore, it would be a shame not to take the option of working in Japan out of concern for the visa.
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