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Originally Posted by jcsag
... is the big scary immigration burea instead of the nice people at my local office.
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Yeah... and some people who live out in the boonies will have to travel to the big city once in a while but at least it's only once in seven years. I've never had any trouble with Immigration that wasn't of my own doing. I even forgot to bring my kids' alien registrations once when picking up their visa stamps and the lady behind the counter said: "just a second" and went in the back and looked it up online (and gave me a bit of a stern warning about 'next time'
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And somewhere the paperwork I read said that "in practice" the visa renewal period had been extended to five years. That is what the large majority of people will get.
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Actually, I hadn't even seen that until I was looking over the PDF you recommended. That's good news for me because it means my two kids should get 5 years next time and I won't have to visit on their behalf so many times. But... since US passports for children are only good for 5 years (and, because of the multiple 3-year visas, the expiration dates are not in sync), I doubt I'll soon forget my way around the Shinagawa Immigration office. Before I got my
PR, I was down there at least once a year for some reason or another.