Japan TTP Notice for those with pending applications
May 26, 2023, 12:16 pm
#62
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Not too sure if this website has been updated or not. Currently the landslide offices at NRT are currently closed. Only those airside offices after security check (departure) are opened. There is currently a report in one of the travel blogs:
https://loyaltylobby.com/2023/05/26/...tomated-gates/
May 30, 2023, 2:12 am
#63
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FYI to save other time, I wasted a good hour or so shopping for souvenirs is Donki for the kids to get up to the tax free register to be told I have to have my passport along with the ttp card so they can prove it’s me. So if you want to do tax free shopping, you’ll need both. They didn’t even know that it was, took 4 people 10 minutes to read through some instruction book then finally got everything entered, but without my passport they refused to continue on. Sigh.
Jun 11, 2023, 8:00 pm
#66
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I went through secondary inspection at HND on Friday 9 June around 14:00 and it was very fast and easy, around 20-30 minutes altogether. They also gave me some helpful brochures in English. What was interesting was that the immigration official just scratched out the old date on my previous TTP stamp in my passport and stamped a new date, with a certification stamp. My passport expires in just over two years, so the expiration date for the card was set for the same day. I applied under Category A with a Nexus card, which I brought to the inspection, had no issues like the last time.
Jun 17, 2023, 9:50 am
#69
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Sorry to hear about your injury and losing your passport.
Since you have to produce your passport at the time of the secondary inspection, it would be hard to see how they would give you the final approval..
I think you might as well withdraw your current application and start again when you have a new permanent passport.
Others may have some additional advice but unfortunately that is how it appears to me in this case.
Since you have to produce your passport at the time of the secondary inspection, it would be hard to see how they would give you the final approval..
I think you might as well withdraw your current application and start again when you have a new permanent passport.
Others may have some additional advice but unfortunately that is how it appears to me in this case.
Jun 17, 2023, 7:05 pm
#70
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I even sent them an email asking if they could estimate current turnaround times for approval. After a couple weeks I got a reply that was essentially a polite "no".
And so I wait...
Jun 18, 2023, 10:04 am
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So just to be clear, the TTP office at NRT is post-security (but before passport control) as the landside office is currently closed? And at HND there are offices both landside and post-security (but before passport control). Hence, getting the TTP card can only be done once somebody is in Japan (either leaving or just arrived once landside)? So the issue of the revenue stamps is moot, as they can be purchased at the combini at the airports?
Jun 19, 2023, 6:00 am
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Jun 24, 2023, 2:03 pm
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So just to be clear, the TTP office at NRT is post-security (but before passport control) as the landside office is currently closed? And at HND there are offices both landside and post-security (but before passport control). Hence, getting the TTP card can only be done once somebody is in Japan (either leaving or just arrived once landside)? So the issue of the revenue stamps is moot, as they can be purchased at the combini at the airports?