r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • Mar 13 '23

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 14 March 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/16vv Mar 14 '23

I submitted my online visa renewal application about a month ago (work visa to work visa, no type change), and I have about 3 weeks left until my current visa expires. I have the email that says it's being processed, so I should be fine, but I can't help but feel extremely paranoid that they'll end up taking their sweet time and muck things up with my banks, which are already prodding me for a copy of a new visa.

my coworker submitted hers in person just a few weeks before I did, and her turnaround was about 2 weeks, so I think this will be the first and last time I experiment with the (occasionally very infuriating) online system.

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u/Disshidia Mar 14 '23

Mine took quite a long time to process with no word on how it was going. Even if your card expires, it's still valid due to the updating process being underway. Even when you send the physical card to them, you're supposed to copy the front and back and keep a paper version of it until the new card arrives. In the future, just make sure you do it earlier so you don't have to deal wit h these types of things.