{"id":18,"date":"2008-07-03T14:58:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T05:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2011-10-19T22:17:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T13:17:24","slug":"i-got-my-work-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/03\/i-got-my-work-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"I got my work visa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/snolygoster\/200806IMLegal\/photo#5218660350299003042\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/snolygoster\/SGxn8F782KI\/AAAAAAAAAgU\/5zVY_NpESgU\/s144\/David%20Hed%20-%20visa%20dates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>I got my work visa! Technically a status &#8220;Change Permit&#8221; which changed my &#8220;Temporary Visitor&#8221; status to that of &#8220;Specialist in Humanities&#8221;, this little postage stamp-looking thing means I can earn money in Japan. More importantly, it means I can get my Alien Registration card, which I did, post-haste.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/snolygoster\/200806IMLegal\/photo#5218660345436505954\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/snolygoster\/SGxn7z0pB2I\/AAAAAAAAAgE\/01F4aLbBsqc\/s144\/David%20Hed%20-%20Alien%20Registration%20Certification%20Card.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a>Look! My Alien Registration Card! (Neat hologram, eh?) Now I can get health insurance! And a cell phone! And internet service! I signed up for NTT&#8217;s ADSL service on Tuesday. I should have it up and running in two weeks, thank the gods!<\/p>\n<p>While I was at the city office, I also registered my hanko. That little rubber stamp I showed you before can now be used as a legal signature here in Japan. Neat, huh? Now if I can only remember where I put it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my work visa! Technically a status &#8220;Change Permit&#8221; which changed my &#8220;Temporary Visitor&#8221; status to that of &#8220;Specialist in Humanities&#8221;, this little postage stamp-looking thing means I can earn money in Japan. More importantly, it means I can get my Alien Registration card, which I did, post-haste. Look! My Alien Registration Card! (Neat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6],"tags":[41,42,44,46,47,43,45,40],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalities","category-matsuyama","tag-alien-registration-card","tag-cell-phone","tag-change-permit","tag-hanko","tag-inkan","tag-internet","tag-specialist-in-humanities","tag-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}