On this page below you will find all the information you need for your visa application

This Work Visa – Specified Skilled Worker is for the following professions;

• Work-ready foreign nationals who possess certain expertise and skills in certain industrial fields.

*You must provide the original document + a copy.

To get this visa, you must first obtain a Certificate of Eligibility.

The certificate of eligibility is issued by the Regional Immigration Office in Japan.

To obtain a Certificate of Eligibility, the applicant must ask a proxy in Japan (an employer, spouse, school, etc.) to contact the nearest Regional Immigration Office and apply on his/her behalf.

When you have received the original certificate from Japan, you can apply for a visa together with the documents mentioned below on the website.

Pay attention; a certificate of eligibility expires after three months. An applicant must obtain his / her visa and arrive in Japan within three months from the issue date of the certificate of eligibility.

If an applicant has not travelled to Japan before the expiry date, a new certificate of eligibility must be obtained before applying for the visa and travelling to Japan.

• Our order form, click here to open
• To avoid errors, please complete this form digitally, print and sign
• Everything you write on this form will appear on the invoice
• With this form, we also have your contact details if we need to call or email you
• We will send you the invoice by email.
• With this form, you authorise us to apply for your visa.

You must complete the application form once.

• Click here to complete, print and sign the application form
• After completing the application form, you must print the form and sign it with a blue or black pen.

• Your passport.
• We need to have the passport physically, so no copy.
• Your passport must still be valid for at least 6½ months after the validity of the visa (ie one and a half year valid if it is an annual visa).
• The passport must have at least two blank facing visa pages.

• One color passport photo.
• Note that these photos are according to the Dutch standard of ‘passport photo’, that is to say, looking forward, white background, do not laugh and do not show teeth.
• Wearing glasses in the photo is not permitted
• Nine times out of ten, the consulate does not accept a photo from your own printer. If you do so, make sure you use gloss paper and there are no stripes visible from the print.
• Do not staple the photo to the application form, but rather use a Pritt stick. If you do not have a Pritt stick, please include your loose photo and we will attach it to the form for you.
• Do not stick the photos with adhesive tape

Other conditions that you must pay extra attention to:

• The photos may not be older than 3 months
• The photos may not be the same as on the passport unless the passport is not older than 3 months
• The photos must have a white background.

A guarantee letter from your/Dutch company. The letter must include the following points:

Click here to open the letter in a WORD file

• Addressed to the Embassy of Japan in The Hague
• The guarantee letter must be drawn up in English!
• Name of the company.
• The question with a request to issue a visa.
• Details of the travelling person (name as in passport, date of birth, nationality, passport number and validity dates).
• Position within the company and date of commencement of work.
• Name the inviting company.
• The reason for the trip.
• The number of entries (single-multiple) with the dates of the entries and exits.Validity of the visa.
• Name the places that are visited.
• Guarantee for any costs that your company or the Company will reimburse in Japan.
• This letter must be signed by a manager or director.
• This letter must be printed on letterhead of your company or else with a stamp of your company.

1.)

If you are Dutch, you do not need additional documents.

2.)

For the EU or Schengen country nationalities:

If nationality comes from an EU or Schengen country (not for a Dutch passport), you must show that you are registered in the Netherlands.
You have two options;

• Option 1: a copy of the front- and backside of your residence permit.
• Option 2: a copy of the extract from the population register (GBA).

3.)

Other nationalities from outside the EU or Schengen countries:

• You need a copy of your Dutch residence permit’s front- and back-side for all nationalities from outside the EU and Schengen countries.