Online unversities and Japanese work visas
QUESTION: Is it possible to get a work visa with just a two year degree
from a Jr or Community College? How about a degree earned from an online university?
ANSWER: Basically, work visas in Japan require a 4-year degree from a university. A 2 year degree will not get you a Japanese work visa unless that 2 year technical degree is combined with 6+ years of real work in a technical field for a real company. Self-employment, consulting work, working for a friend is not going to cut it for you to get a Japanese work visa. You need the degree and/or a special skill such as being a chef.
A 4-year online university degree should be acceptable if and only if the online university has a fully-accredited brick-and-mortar campus. Japanese immigration has a secret internal list of fully-accredited universities so there is no use trying to scam them with a semi-fake online-only college. Bible colleges that offer 4-year degrees for a large “free-will” donation don’t work either.
Basically, Japanese Immigration is hip to all the scam online colleges and you should ONLY consider a real university program whether it’s a traditional or online course of study. If the 4-year online university degree would get you a real job working for a Fortune 500 company, then it will get you a Japanese work visa.
Sorry. No shortcuts.
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January 5th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
If we are talking on an Engineer visa then its either 10 years of PROVEN experience in the IT field (backed up with letters from the former employees) or a Scientific degree (3 or 4 years, depend where you come from).
October 4th, 2006 at 9:50 am
I would like to seek admission in any Japanese University,if provided an opportunity