New Japan eVisa live for US/CA citizens
Aug 17, 2022, 12:08 am
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New Japan eVisa live for US/CA citizens
https://www.evisa.mofa.go.jp/index
Tourism still requires the tour package; but simpler for everything else at least. Considering they've invested in this, I doubt they'll ever go back to visa-exemptions.
Tourism still requires the tour package; but simpler for everything else at least. Considering they've invested in this, I doubt they'll ever go back to visa-exemptions.
Aug 17, 2022, 1:20 am
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It's not live. You still can not register. What you see there has been up for a week.
Aug 17, 2022, 7:44 am
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Privacy policy in JAPANeVISA (including JAVES: JapanVisaExemptionSystem)
Aug 17, 2022, 10:25 am
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Visa-exempt is different than a waiver of a visa. Exempt means you do not need anything (e.g. as was previously the case for most nationalities going to JP). I assume moving forward, once Japan elects to open to the non-guided tourism, that they will effectively require an ETA.
Last edited by MDTyKe; Aug 17, 2022 at 11:44 am
Aug 17, 2022, 6:18 pm
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This system has been planned even before the pandemic https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...ts-april-2020/ and the Visa exemption part was aimed at Indonesians, who needed to register their passport with the Japanese embassy to gain Visa free access to Japan.
Aug 17, 2022, 6:35 pm
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This system has been planned even before the pandemic https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...ts-april-2020/ and the Visa exemption part was aimed at Indonesians, who needed to register their passport with the Japanese embassy to gain Visa free access to Japan.
I wonder how that plan working out for them.
Aug 18, 2022, 5:35 am
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They are two different ways of saying the same thing.
Aug 18, 2022, 7:00 am
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“Japan eVISA [Notice of completion of account registration]
Thank you for using Japan eVISA website.
The account registration for (xxxxxx@Yahoo.com) is now complete.
Please log in to the following URL.
https://www.evisa.mofa.go.jp/personal/login
□□□ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan □□□
□□□ Japan eVISA □□□
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Aug 18, 2022, 12:44 pm
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I was able to complete registration as well and poked around a bit with the visa application form.
It was interesting to see that the required fields for Destination and/or Accommodation only give the choice of:
It was interesting to see that the required fields for Destination and/or Accommodation only give the choice of:
Iwate / Miyagi / Fukushima
Okinawa
Other
Okinawa
Other
Aug 18, 2022, 1:21 pm
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When registering, it asks you to choose your Nationality but then the application destination has to match the selected Nationality.
I guess they have not considered the use case of Canadians traveling from the US or vice versa?
I guess they have not considered the use case of Canadians traveling from the US or vice versa?
Aug 18, 2022, 3:16 pm
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"At this time, the JAPAN eVISA system is only available to foreign nationals of CANADA or the USA who reside in their own countries. The visa to be applied for is a Temporary Visitor Visa."
Aug 18, 2022, 3:24 pm
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Aug 18, 2022, 4:42 pm
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I will try anyway and report back on how it goes.
Aug 18, 2022, 5:38 pm
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Good luck but be careful. If they do reject it and depending on how the rejection is filed that might cause you issues with attempting to obtain another visa within the next few months. I believe the rules are if you have applied for a visa and been rejected it's an automatic rejection for like the next 3 or 6 months after that.
Aug 18, 2022, 8:31 pm
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Looks like my wife will need to return to Japan for more surgery so will be using this soon -- will report on how it goes -- it did warn me that I needed to have a phone that worked in Japan when I arrived as there was no way to print out a confirmation of Visa -- quite odd but perhaps they are still working out the bugs.... Can't wait to try and check in at United or ANA with my phone as a Visa lol....