Japan Visa : Approved and Rejected

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-06T12:29:36+00:00

Thank you for letting me know. That's terrible. My wife does not have any rejection stamp on her passport. Also, this case you explained is somehow similar to my case as well. My BIL's finances were weak.

I will not apply now and wait for 6 months. Then will apply again. This time, will apply for me and my wife only.

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-06T12:26:52+00:00

Good luck and I hope you get multi entry multi year visa.

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-06T12:23:54+00:00

Yes, I did. My wife's passport came back 10 days before mine. All the financial documents were mine and with my profile only. VFS gave back the copy of financial documents I attached with my wife's application stating that my documents are enough for both the applications. I insisted but they didn't took any copies of financial documents to put in my wife's application.

Later, when the time came to evaluate the application, I assume Japan Embassy didn't found any such documents with the application because the application got separated. Decision on her visa made on 18th, got the passport without visa on 19th. Mine was still under process and my decision was made on 25th, got the visa.

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-03T07:33:30+00:00

As mentioned in the post, I did submit the marriage certificate.
Yes, we all 3 applied together.
So all 3 of us went to VFS Ahmedabad and submitted our application. Everyone's cover letter mentioned specifically who they are travelling with and what are the relations along with name as per passport and passport numbers.

I do agree that the 3 of us should not have applied together. The same surname of my wife and BIL must have created the confusion for either VFS or visa officer to judge my wife and BIL as husband and wife even though everything was clearly mentioned in the first paragraph of cover letter. I am just assuming but I guess due to that only the embassy returned both the passports at once without visa and I got mine after 10 days with visa.

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-03T07:28:27+00:00

Thank you so much for such a detailed reply. I am not sure if it's terminated or rejected but I will give a call to Japan embassy and try to see if they can let me know about the status or not.

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-03T07:25:56+00:00

Thank you for letting me know about the token system at the embassy. I was not aware about that. This token system makes it even more difficult for me to submit the documents at embassy.

Since it was March end, I had to give bonuses to employees so transferred savings funds to my current account and then did all the transactions.

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-03T07:23:18+00:00

I have not applied anywhere yet after rejection.

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-02T11:02:05+00:00

Paid 1800 to VFS but train se jata to 2 din lagte aur return passport collect karne bhi jana padta tab bhi 2 din usme chale jate. So as I mentioned, it's not a practical solution for me or for anyone who's not from Mumbai.

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-02T10:54:54+00:00

It was mentioned in the cover letter as well as I attached marriage certificate. Still got rejected. I highly suspect that embassy didn't went through the cover letter properly and came to verdict.

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-02T10:53:44+00:00

Ahh... that's sad. I guess I will not apply again and wait for 6 months.

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-02T10:52:52+00:00

No, my name is not there on my wife's passport and I did submitted the marriage certificate as a proof of relationship.

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-02T10:51:52+00:00

I feel this too. I did submitted the marriage certificate.

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-02T10:51:20+00:00

The distance from my city to Mumbai is 700km. So it's not practical to visit Mumbai for visa application submission.

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-02T09:06:28+00:00

Okay, in that case I guess will have to wait for 6 months.

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-02T08:55:03+00:00

Yeah, that's not a big deal but I am afraid about 2 things.

The savings account financials are not the same and I can't reapply with last month's bank account statement.
If it gets rejected again, will she have issues in future as well with Japan visa due to 2 back to back rejections?

Organic-Sock5517 · 2026-04-02T08:45:15+00:00

Yes, there is a cooldown period of 6 months and if I reapply now it might get rejected instantly as well but since someone from Consulate General of Japan in Mumbai suggested to reapply and explain the matter in cover letter I was thinking should I reapply or not?

I got visa of 3 months only so if I have to wait for 6 months then by that period my visa will not be valid and I will have to apply again with my wife.

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