Originally Posted by
Xenochria
BTW my number for my JGA ERFS application was 439xxx, and the middle name correction that I received about 24 hours later was 444xxx. Sounds like about 5000 applications in 24 hours? 150mil yen at 30k each...
ERFS numbers are systemwide and not agency specific. Also, I've seen agencies on non-english websites offering the same service, sometimes at prices significantly lower than 30k yen so it's not like JGA is the only one submitting ERFS.
One of them even "helpfully" advised me to wait and see until later this month (my trip is not until American Thanksgiving) as they think ERFS may be scrapped by then (I'm sure we've all learned our lessons over the past two years to take speculation on this topic with a massive grain of salt).