Odds of Visa Requirements to Japan Changing in the future
Oct 7, 2017, 1:13 pm
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Visa requirement is based on citizenship, not where you depart from. Assume CA here refers to California rather than Canada.
Japan imposes no visa requirements on U.S. citizens (or most other developed countries), and that is unlikely to change in the next few years
Japan imposes no visa requirements on U.S. citizens (or most other developed countries), and that is unlikely to change in the next few years
Oct 7, 2017, 2:24 pm
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Oct 7, 2017, 5:21 pm
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On the chance that you mean Canada by CA, then they also have a visa waiver. I think it is also 3 months.
Oct 7, 2017, 9:00 pm
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If you are on a US passport, the visa waiver for Japan is up to 3 months stay for tourism. That does not mean you can go there and work without a work visa but you can visit. I doubt that will change. I've been going for almost 20 years on a tourist waiver.
On the chance that you mean Canada by CA, then they also have a visa waiver. I think it is also 3 months.
On the chance that you mean Canada by CA, then they also have a visa waiver. I think it is also 3 months.
Oct 8, 2017, 3:15 am
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Except for the USA which technically does not require a visa but does require an ESTA which a) must be obtained in advance, b) has limited duration and c) must be paid for. In other words is a visa in all but name.
Oct 9, 2017, 9:12 am
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Student visas, work visas, longer stays than 90 days...obviously that's a different story.
It's certainly possible that the U.S. could piss off the entire world in 3 years' time (we've done a pretty good job of it in the past 9 months), but we'd be getting into speculative OMNI P/R territory there suggesting that Japan will respond by requiring tourist visas between now and then.
Oct 9, 2017, 2:39 pm
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Australia also requires essentially the same thing for USA and a few other country's citizens.
Oct 9, 2017, 8:13 pm
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Except it's purely electronic and not something you get from an embassy. It's sort of a middle ground.
Oct 9, 2017, 8:19 pm
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From your past posts, you often seem to ask similar questions requesting speculation on pricing and other travel situations far into the future. Are you trying to plan something out and working out budgets? Something else?
Knowing your actual purpose might get you some more practical responses geared toward the root concern. But typically you'd only need to worry about entry requirements much closer to planned travel than half a decade out.
