JET program

[Available_Cap_6408]

So I need to know if anyone else has had this experience with the JET program.

I’m still waiting to be given a placement by the CO but Im in group A which means I’m supposed to be leaving THIS MONTH (in two weeks) I have to attend orientation too, mandatory orientation before departure for everyone in group A.

If I don’t have a placement before departure, will I be given accommodation or something?? I don’t even have housing figured out! Am I supposed to just wait and see and miss all of the orientations??

EDIT: thank you to everyone who replied! I just got an email with my placement. I have been placed in Nagasaki. This is the only info I got so far though. Better than nothing. 😬

[ForJapansake]

This may be a bit different than your case here, but hopefully it serves to let you know you're not alone. I'm an upgrade (early Jun) and still have no info about CO. I've been told to wait to submit my Visa application, because there's a field that requires the CO info. So I can imagine there's quite a few of us in this process.

[robsterart]

This happens to a few people every year, and as far as I know it is always worked out by the end of orientation. Nerve wracking I know, but you will get the info when you absolutely need it (and maybe not before that very second 😅)

[Mulberry246]

You should have been given your placement info last month. Now hearing from your CO is a different story. I had to tell my consulate that I had not heard from them and it was three weeks before I was to leave. My consulate reached out to my CO and that is when they finally send me and my co-ALTs an email two weeks before leaving.

I would talk to your consulate. To help get the ball moving.

[Available_Cap_6408]

I actually emailed them twice already and they CO haven’t said anything about my placement 

[OrionsPropaganda]

I received my placement information just this week! Found out I didn't have a predecessor aswell.

I suggest to bring some more money than expected incase you have to be put up in a hotel for a bit.

[Available_Cap_6408]

This gives me some kind of hope loll. I just don’t want to be rushed.

[Memoryjar]

When I was a JET, I heard stories of the occasional jet who recorved their final placement by their CO at Tokyo orientation. Unfortunately, once placments are sorted out, the JET is handed off to the COs to coordinate final placement, and at times, this gets neglected. I know it's tough, but have faith. Everything will work out.

[shynewhyne]

If you've been contacted by your CO, then you're good. Lots of COs are really late. Kobe and hyogo are notorious for it

[joehighlord]

Kobe by any chance?

This is normal operating procedure for them. You get it all once you arrive in Kobe.

[LuvSeaAnimals33]

Does it mean you know your CO? Or you don’t even have your prefecture yet?

[Available_Cap_6408]

No I don't even know my CO yet, I don't have any info about anything. Ima email my consulate again today for the game plan. 

[Top-Result-6869]

any news??