Japan's Immigration Services Agency revised its permanent-residency guideline on October 1, 2026, raising income, pension and Japanese-language bars for applications filed from April 2027, and issued a companion guideline on ...
Japan's LDP-Ishin coalition is split over capping foreign-worker intake, even as immigration authorities draft guidelines that would sharply raise the financial bar for permanent residency.
A media report has put stricter income and pension standards for Japanese permanent residence into the conversation, and it is worth separating what is reported
Japan has moved a proposed increase in residence-related administrative fees into the public-comment stage. The e-Gov public comment case `315000136` shows that
May 29, 2026 — Japan's Parliament — specifically the House of Councillors — has passed a significant revision to the country's immigration law, introducing major changes that will affect foreign ...
