Filipino teen granted special permit to stay in Japan for 1 year

Tuesday 17th March, 06:11 AM JST

The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below.

› Login to comment

15 Comments

soldave at 08:34 AM JST - 17th March

So after a year she has to leave too?
shoguinn1 at 08:41 AM JST - 17th March

No after a year this will all blow over and people will forget and she will be granted another permit. And I bet her parents will be allowed to stay under some other "Special Permit"
IchyaWarFare at 09:16 AM JST - 17th March

Yeah, more than likely her parents will be back in about 6 months or so. Getting another job though will be kind of hard, unless the company wants to use them as a publicity stunt. Who knows.
Samuraiiki at 09:54 AM JST - 17th March

Here is an advice for the families: Have her relatives adopt her so she can get permanent legal status. Her parents can go to a lawyer to notarize the letter granting the relatives permission for adoption. Then her relatives in Japan can start proceedings with their local family court to adopt her. If her relative is married to Japanese, then she might be able to also secure Japanese citizenship. Then, when she is of adult age, she could petition her real parents to come to Japan. This scenario is possible in America where the goverment has less strict rules. Now, here in Japan, it could be different. I heard stories of Filipinos becoming Japanese citizens only after theyr were forced to renounce ties with their families back in PI. What it means is that maybe the Japanese Gov will not even consider her real parents for immigration petition if she became a Japanese citizen. But, maybe something worth looking at. My two cents worth of help. Rather than posting negative remarks, why not find ways to help them out?
noborito at 10:03 AM JST - 17th March

she should spend the year learning spanish. see ya
jocelasi at 11:41 AM JST - 17th March

Take care Noriko and maximize the opportunity.
TheguyNextdoor at 02:42 PM JST - 17th March

Well it seems the parents got a longer stay. They were supposed to be gone over two weeks ago. Seems like it keeps getting pushed back further. Good for the girl, just hope her aunt isn't illegal as well. That would just be funny.....kick two out and hand her over to another illegal.
goodlife640 at 02:46 PM JST - 17th March

This is so tragic to this family. 13 years old is the most fragile age for a child & for her to be away from her parents will be a traumatic experience for her. I knew two families here in Nagoya Japan same case with this family that was granted a special permit all six of them .

In my opinion for humanitarian ground let this family stay here to be a family don't be a home wrecker (breaker)Justice Mori..by your position prove to us that you deserve to be our Justice Minister by being JUST.
Okinawamike at 04:45 PM JST - 17th March

So does anybody know if being born in Japan still does not make you a Japanese citizenship? People have been known to come to the US just to have childern born there.
seesaw at 05:00 PM JST - 17th March

she should spend the year learning spanish. see ya

noborito: Are you suggesting she learns Spanish to prepare for life after this one year, meaning having to go back to the Phillipines? As far as I know people over there speak Tagalog. Why are you suggesting Spanish?
cleo at 05:18 PM JST - 17th March

So does anybody know if being born in Japan still does not make you a Japanese citizenship?

It's pretty simple; you have to have a Japanese parent. Where you are born is neither here nor there.
sangetsu at 08:22 PM JST - 17th March

No after a year this will all blow over and people will forget and she will be granted another permit. And I bet her parents will be allowed to stay under some other "Special Permit"

It won't happen, and they won't be allowed back. They were overstaying their visas and were living in Japan illegally. If they are lucky, they may be able to return after a 4 year or longer ban.

The daughter probably will receive an extension after one year.
usaexpat at 11:44 PM JST - 17th March

Good for Noriko although it would have been better for the family to stay together in my estimation.
martyman at 02:33 AM JST - 18th March

Oh my, they actually have a relative that lives in Japan legally? That is a shocker! What was all the concern in earlier posts of leaving Noriko with strangers all alone in Japan?

I hope she is able to speak tagalog to her aunt or she may have a lot of communication issues in the future. The parents are lucky the courts didn't just send the whole family off after their multipe attempts in court trying to stay in country.
escape_artist at 09:39 AM JST - 18th March

The Japanese govt... what a heartless bunch of xenophobes. 国際化？ Yeah right. What a bunch of rubbish, all a facade in the name of business.