As the global competition for talented workers heats up, Japan has declared that it will create new, more straightforward immigration pathways for high-income earners and graduates of elite international universities.

The new visa routes are known as the Japan System for Special Highly Skilled Professionals (J-Skip) and the Japan System for Future Creation Individual Visa, and they will be put into effect in April after receiving public feedback (J-Find).

It would consist of international scientists and engineers who earn at least 20 million ($148,000) annually and have a master’s degree or more than ten years of professional experience. Additionally, the government declared that finding employment in Japan would be made simpler for “young people with great potential.”

J-Find
With the J-Find system, graduates from prestigious foreign universities can remain in Japan for an extended amount of time while looking for work. They can bring along family members as well.
A foreigner will be given a “designated activities” visa that will allow them to stay for up to two years and look for work if they graduated from a university that was rated among the top 100 in both of the world ranking lists chosen by the Immigration Services Agency of Japan within the previous five years and had at least 200,000 ($1,480) on them upon arrival in Japan.

The QS Top Universities, Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and Shanghai rankings will be used by the government. Graduates currently have 90 days under the “short-term stay” classification to look for work in Japan; however, J-Find would increase that to two years.

J-Skip
If you are
a high-level manager,
engineer,
or scholar,
you can use the J-Skip pathway.

As long as they satisfy specific income and job experience requirements, they would be able to skip the current point-based system and automatically be given consideration for a highly skilled professional visa.

An individual is only given consideration for the highly skilled professional status under the current system, which was implemented in 2012 when they earned 70 points or more through the “preferential immigration treatment system.” The system grades candidates based on their academic record published study, and level of Japanese proficiency.

After a five-year stay and employment in their professional area, those who achieve the status start out as Level 1 professionals. After three years of employment, they can upgrade to Level 2, which enables them to remain in the nation indefinitely with essentially no job restrictions. A master’s degree or higher, at least ten years of work experience, and a yearly salary of $20,000 or more are requirements for researchers and engineers.

Managers must have at least five years of management expertise and a yearly salary of at least 40 million yen. People who are given the “highly skilled professional” classification are able to move to Level 2 after just one year of working and residing in Japan. Instead of the presently allowed one foreign domestic worker, their spouses may work full-time and hire two.

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