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HOW TO SURRENDED IF YOU ARE ILLEGALLY STAYING HERE IN JAPAN?

Miss your mother country so much and plan to go home after a long time of living and working here illegally? Well, this is the things you should know when you want to personally surrender at the immigration.

   

You can apply for "DEPORTATION PROGRAM" of Japanese government if you,
• (1) voluntarily surrender on the immigration office
• (2) illegaly overstaying here in japan
• (3) have no criminal records or alike done here in japan
• (4) have no records of overstaying here in japan

The following are the things you should know when you will surrender if you are illegally staying here in japan. This is the story when I assisted one of my friend when she surrender at the Tokyo Immigration office.


• (1) Go to the immigration main office personally. I prefer the Regional Immigration office and not the immigration branch office nearest you. If you cannot speak Japanese that much, I preferred that you must go there with someone who can speak Japanese language enough.
  
  
• (2) In the immigration office, try to go to information desk to ask for "SYUTTOU SHINKOKU", they will guide you and tell the section that handle it.
  
  
• (3) At that section, you will assisted by personnel and give you some forms that you must fill-up. Fill-up the form and fall in line and wait for your turn. this will be your first interview. At first interview, they will ask you some details how you get here? Why you are voluntarily surrendering and your present documents that you have.
  
  
• (4) The documents that you need to make your release or flight to go back in the Philippines much more early is only passport and flight ticket. If there is no problem about your passport and it is still valid, they will only request you to prepare for flight ticket. But if your passport is already invalid, you will be requested to go to Philippine embassy or consulate to get travel affidavit. You must go back again to the immigration after you get your travel affidavit at the date they assigned to you.
  
  
• (5) Go to the Philippine embassy or consulate to get a travel affidavit. They will give you schedule when you can get it. Then go back again to get it.
  
  
• (6) After getting your travel affidavit, go back again to the immigration office where you voluntarily surrender at the date they assigned to you. They will check your travil affidavit and give you a go signal to buy your plane ticket. This is the time where you can buy a ticket. Don't buy or pay for it unless not told by the immigration personnel. Your processing may takes time sometime so there is possibility that you cannot go back at the date you reserved. This will be your second interview. The immigration personnel will give you another schedule when to go back after you buy your plane ticket.
  
  
• (7) Go back again to the immigration office at the date they assigned to you with the plane ticket or the receipt of it. Proving that you have make your reservation. This will be your last interview. After the interview, they will give you the date of your flight to go back on your homeland. This time, all processing of your papers are completed.
  
  
• (8) Go to the airport where your flight is. There is nothing to worry on the aiport and in the immigration section. You just submit the papers given to you at the immigration. Don't get nervous, be calm like your flight when you get here in japan.
  
  

ONE POINT REMNIDERS:
• (1) Make sure that you can go back to the immigration office at the date they assigned to you. If there is a reason that you cannot do it, call the immigration and look for the personnel assigned to you and tell them that you cannot be on that date.
  
  
• (2) At the immigration office within the section where you will surrender, there are lots of personnels who came from airline ticket office and other legal consultants offices that will assist you, but after that they will try to make you buy a ticket from them. Never make a reservation or make a downpaymnet for your ticket as long as there is no go signal to buy it from immigration personnel. You cannot refund any amount you deposit on any personnel doing business there.
  
  
• (3) The penalty for those who voluntarily surrender will be a 1 year suspension to travel again here in japan.
  
  

Author (STRIVER) September, 2009