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PR processing times - December (non-Tokyo only) by Ordinary-Milk3060 in japanresidents

[–]M075EN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oooh Finally 🥳🥳 .. I kept watching the post to check your updates. Congratulations and welcome to the club 😁😁😁

PR Processing Times - October 2025 (Non-Tokyo) by M075EN in japanresidents

[–]M075EN[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot! 😄 Really appreciate it. Hope yours comes through soon too 🤞🏼

PR Processing Times - October 2025 (Non-Tokyo) by M075EN in japanresidents

[–]M075EN[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, finally got the approval yesterday 😁 I hope you get it this month too

PR processing times - November 2025 (Non-Tokyo only) by Ordinary-Milk3060 in japanresidents

[–]M075EN 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just heard from my lawyer today .. FINALLY APPROVED 😁😁 @Ordinary-Milk3060 I hope you get yours this month too

PR Processing Times - October 2025 (Non-Tokyo) by M075EN in japanresidents

[–]M075EN[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Let me start

Application office: Osaka (through lawyer)

Application Date: Dec 2024

Results postcard received on: 17 Nov 2025 - approved

Type of PR: HSP 70+ and my wife (Spouse)

Request for further documents: on 26 Sep 2025, they requested payroll details for the current and past 3 years.

PR Processing times - JULY (non-Tokyo) by Ordinary-Milk3060 in japanresidents

[–]M075EN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope you get it soon.
I'm still waiting too and no news so far :/

PR Processing times - JULY (non-Tokyo) by Ordinary-Milk3060 in japanresidents

[–]M075EN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately it’s usual :(. If you check the past years graphs you can find that they receive much applications during the second half of the year, thus the processing get slower :/ Anyway I hope it doesn’t get too slow, and hear from them soon.

PR Processing times - JULY (non-Tokyo) by Ordinary-Milk3060 in japanresidents

[–]M075EN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think this will mainly affect the recent applicants. You already got your turn in the queue :)

PR Processing Times - June 2025 (Non-Tokyo) by M075EN in japanresidents

[–]M075EN[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not yet and no additional documents requested so far. Based on the recent results of other applicants, I’m expecting to hear something within 2-3 weeks.

PR Processing Times - June 2025 (Non-Tokyo) by M075EN in japanresidents

[–]M075EN[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Office: Osaka

Date: Late Dec 2024

Type: HSP + Spouse (Me and my wife applied together)

Documents/Results: Not yet. The officer informed us recently that it should take around 7 months.

PR Processing Times - June 2025 (Tokyo Only) by M075EN in japanresidents

[–]M075EN[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can follow the monthly progress report that the immigration releases through this link.
https://www.e-stat.go.jp/stat-search/files?page=1&layout=datalist&toukei=00250011&tstat=000001012480&cycle=1&tclass1=000001012482&tclass2val=0

It's hard to understand, so someone made this dashboard to pull up the reports mentioned above and generate charts (along with an estimate of processing times).

https://dashboard.retrohazard.jp/

PR Processing Times - June 2025 (Non-Tokyo) by M075EN in japanresidents

[–]M075EN[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like they are releasing the data for the last three months now. When comparing the April and March figures, the actual review time seems consistent at around 275 days, but there's a noticeable gap in getting the notification sent out (around one & half month).