I married an Italian girl almost one month ago as I wrote in the article. After the wedding we went to Istanbul in the honeymoon and we started a new life together in Tokyo. Almost all my friends and acquaintances have asked me all the way, "Your wife has become Japanese?", "Did you get married so your wife can live in Japan forever, right?", "Congratulations, Your wife has taken the citizenship of Japan ", etc.. But not so in fact. Even if we got married my wife can not live in Japan without a visa, yet I can not live in Italy without a visa. International couples must take a visa for marriage to live together. And you need to sign up. (There is not that the State shall issue it without the request). Then you know that the deadline del visto per matrimonio è 1 anno o 3 anni la prima volta(bisogna rinnovare dopo 1 anno o 3 anni).Mi sono trasferito all'appartamento dove abito adesso nell'aprile 2008. Per trovare questo appartamento sono andato in qualche agenzia immobiliare. In una agenzia quando parlavo con un commesso, una ospite è entrata nalla'agenzia poi ha detto "Buon giorno sto cercando un'appartamento" in giapponese con la pronuncia un po' strana. Il commesso le ha chiesto "Di che nazionarità è Lei? Abiterebbe con qualcuno? Lei lavora?", l'ospite ha risposto "Sono cinese, vorrei abitare da sola. Lavoro in un ristorante cinese come lavapiatti". Quando ho sentito questa frase, mi è venuto un dubbio, perché in Giappone foreigners can not do the simple work such as the dishwasher, waiter, etc., except persons who have a visa for marriage, permanent resident or have a special visa. The clerk thought the same thing when he made a face of doubt, the Chinese guest said that "I am married to a Japanese." The agency has understood everything (I) that the Chinese made a fake marriage to get a visa for marriage (this thing is illegal). Because in Japan with a visa for marriage you can do any work. Sometimes I heard that there is this thing on TV in the newspaper, but it was the first time I discovered live. However, the agency has not agreed to submit the apartment to her.
As I wrote my wife need a visa to live in Japan. Of course it must take a visa for marriage. Before marriage, I checked as you take this visa so I had already understood that what we do. But I also realized that it was very difficult to join. Because many Chinese, Koreans and Filipinos want to take a visa for marriage in an unlawful manner. But how to get a visa for marriage? There is the agent (perhaps a kind of Yakuza) which prepares Japanese husbands who want to earn money illegally, and do all the international registration of marriage by paying money to "fake" husbands. And the foreign wives take their visa by paying a large sum of money.
According to the TV and newspapers, because their system of registration of the marriage visa has become very complicated. Then I read the blog that people who have married foreigners in Japan have written. They wrote that it was still hard and you have too much time. So there we were prepared to toil and wait.
.. But in the end my wife received the postcard by immigration approval last Friday (July 10) even if you have registered just last Monday (July 6), we thought it was not so soon .
To be continued ...
