Procedures after Finding a Job

• Where the foreigner finds a job and plans to start working in Japan as soon as he/she obtains the applicable work permit, he/she is required to change his/her current "Designated Activities" status.

（※）The foreigner is unable to start his/her career in Japan without obtaining a working visa.

• Where the foreigner receives a tentative job offer, and will start working, for instance, on April 1st of the following year, he/she is required to change his/her current "Designated Activities" status.

1. The current "Designated Activities" status has been given to the foreigner for his/her "Job-Hunting" after graduation in Japan. Where he/she finds a job and continues residing in Japan until his/her employment, he/she is required to renew the current status of residence to the "Designated Activities" status which an employer and a duration period are specified.
2. The foreign students who graduate from universities in September and find a job when they are in universities, and if they intend to reside in Japan until April 1st of the following year, they are required to change their status of residence from the "Student" status to the "Designated Activities" status.

（※）The foreigner is able to renew the current "Designated Activities" status or change the current status of residence to the "Designated Activities" status only if he/she plans to start working in a company within one year from receiving a tentative job offer and 18 months after graduation.

（※）The applicant is required to submit the documents similar to the acquisition of a working visa when he/she files the application; therefore, the regional immigration services bureau simultaneously examines if the applicant satisfies the permissible standards of a status of worker.

（※）An employer is required to submit a written statement that an employer and an applicant constantly communicate with each other during a waiting period, and an employer properly contacts the regional immigration services bureau when an employer withdraws the tentative job offer to the applicant.