COE processing times

Finally, we have got our COE approved!
Both me and my spouse's dependent visa is approved!

COE type: Engineering/Humanities & Dependent
Nationality : South East Asia country
Application date: 28th June 2024
Application office: Tokyo Immigration
Approved : 25th Sep
Postage received : 28th Sep

Hope everyone will get your COE soon 🙏

Many many congratulation stay blessed,🗼🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎆🎆🎆

Another dissapoint week for me as I haven't received my coe yet.

Type : Engineering/Humanities
Date : 20th May 2024
Additional Documents : None
Immigration : Osaka

Hopefully get my coe next week 🙏

To Perry and others,

Don't lose hope and don't give up!
Sometimes without additional documents is a good thing, only the screening process will take time.

As for my experience, our agent try to visit or call Immigration weekly to follow up, perhaps can also inform the officer that your company would like you to start work on certain date so they could expedite the screening process.

Hopefully more and more good news is coming! 🙏

@apple1199

Thank you for your encouragement, I'm hoping I will get mine next week🤞😬

Got my husband's COE today! Praise God!

Type:Dependent
Nationality: the Philippines
Application Date: May 23rd
Applied personally, no lawyer assistance
Date Approved: Sept 26th
Date received via post: Sept 28th via mail
Additional requirements: None
Office: Nagoya Immigration

The secret is to pray and wait patiently. Have faith in the procedure. Would also like to thank this page for keeping me informed every day. For successful applicants, posting your COE status here along with the dates would be really beneficial for those who are waiting. When I noticed an approved dependent post one week ahead of my application,
I proceeded according to the computation I had in my head and it never missed my calculation. But still, it may vary from office to office and the number of applicants they have to cater, especially in the main regional immigration offices.

May all your COEs be granted ASAP! God bless us all!

@Clover

Hi Clover,
I’m already in Japan and about to start working on Oct 2 under Specialist in Humanities visa. I would love to bring my husband and daughter with me. Do you think I can already apply for their COEs for dependent visa application even if I haven’t worked for a year yet? I checked the requirements and a tax certificate is included, but I guess I can only obtain the tax certificate after working for a year.

Anyone here who can give an advice regarding my situation? How early can I apply for my dependents’ COE?

Thanks in advance for your time and response.

By the way, I’m also from the Philippines.

By the way, I’m also from the Philippines.

By the way, I’m also from the Philippines.

@Nika

Welcome to Japan!

I've watched a video bout someone who was in a nearly same circumstance to yours and, two months after arriving, she was allowed to bring her spouse here on a dependent visa. But that was about 3 years ago. Maybe things have changed drastically, especially after the pandemic.
She did not have a tax certificate back then so she just provided her pay slip and passbook to prove her capacity to support her husband while he’s here.

As for myself, I’m almost a decade here so I was able to provide all the listed reqs. I’m afraid I couldn’t strongly give my two cents as to how early you could apply for a dependent visa. Hope others here could respond to your concern the soonest.

@Clover

Hi again, Clover,

Thanks for your prompt response regarding my question and for somehow giving me an idea. I hope Nagoya IB will allow me to submit just my certificate of employment together with my payslip next month. Homesickness is really killing me.

Anyway, congratulations! Hoping everyone here in this forum will be able to obtain their COEs.

Dependent coe waiting
Tokyo immigration
July-3
Nepali
Waiting………….

Nationality: Nepali
Visa Type: Dependent
Apply Date: 30 may 2024(online by lawyer)
Submitted: Nagoya Immigration
Status: Still waiting
Please let me know if you get Coe on May month from Nagoya immigration.

@Nika

Same sentiments here. Please try. If you never try, you will never know. :)

@007
My application date is a week ahead of yours so you could expect this week or next week is your release date as long as you have provided all the docs. Keep the faith!

Alright so I got “news” about my application. My employer and I went to immigration in person to get info.

So the reason why I’m still waiting and got no news after 8 months, is because immigration actually never received my application (!). For a reason unknown to my employer and I, the lawyer has never sent my documents to immigration, even though they said they did so (they’re a certified and experienced lawyer, so I’m baffled this kind of things could happen).
To be fair, we should have been more suspicious earlier, when the lawyer dodged the question and found excuses every time we asked for the application number… (which we never got of course)

So we filed a new application on the spot (I had all the documents with me). The lady at the counter who received my application told me I should expect a 2-3 month wait.

I’m angry and frustrated to have lost 8 months with this absurd situation, but relieved we were able to regain full control of my application (I finally have an application number lol)

My new data:
COE type: engineer/humanities (cat 3 company)
Office: Tokyo Shinagawa
New application date: 09/30
Nationality: EU
Status: Waiting

Hopefully I’ll get the result by next year, that’ll be a nice Christmas present!

@perry
Thank you for your answer

Still no news for my coe today.
Anybody has good news?

Residence status :- Business manager
Applied:- 25 April
Immigration:- Nagoya
Additional documents :- no
Status :- waiting (160 days)
Nationality:-NEPALESE

My company owner want me as a manager
Then he sponsored and applied for COE
I didn't know company is in which category but It's (株式会社)
I spend about 5 years in nagoya japan already
Anyone who gets coe from nagoya Please update Here

@Enha

Sorry to hear that horrible situation of yours. Thankfully you are in control now

Its been helpful reading all this comments ,cus have been depressed with the whole coe delays
Application :- spouse

First applied in June 2021 with the help of an immigration lawyer in Japan ,payed him in full

Released in DEC 17 2022 was seized by him until it was expired.
found out by April 2023
started a new one by that same April 2023 ,done all the documentations still waiting for its release till date