{"id":656,"date":"2007-10-18T00:07:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T15:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=656"},"modified":"2008-04-23T12:19:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T03:19:39","slug":"martin-issott-on-kansai-intl-airports-funny-implementation-of-fingerprint-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"Martin Issott on Kansai Int’l Airport’s funny implementation of Fingerprint Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Blog. Martin has been reporting on the half-assed implementation of the new Fingerprint Law for some time. His previous entries
\nhttps:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=592<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=638<\/a>
\nUpdate follows. Debito<\/p>\n

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From: \t Martin_Issott
\nSubject: \tKIX IMMIGRATION UPDATE 171007
\nDate: October 17, 2007 11:02:40 PM JST <\/i><\/p>\n

Dear Debito,<\/p>\n

On return from a business trip this evening Oct 17 I began to distribute a protest letter<\/a> to Kansai International Airport (KIX) Immigration staff re the amended Immigration Law.<\/p>\n

The official who had started to process my re entry documentation refused to accept the letter, which resulted in my having a lengthy conversation with, to be fair, a sympathetic KIX Immigration official who was prepared to listen to my complaints, and to respond –<\/p>\n

1) Immigration have no way to accept my demands to pre register my biometric data before Nov 20, as there will be no Automated Gate established at KIX by that date.<\/b><\/p>\n

2) My statements that there was no plan to establish the Automated Gate at any other International Airport in Japan were denied – yes, eventually Automated Gates would be established at all other Airports – but as to when ref KIX, no idea now! ( Impression – not during 2008!)<\/p>\n

3) My letter would be given to more senior officials, and the more resident foreigners complained about the situation the more likely it was to speed up the Automated Gate establishment process.<\/p>\n

4) Meanwhile my situation was understood – a 2 minute immigration queue up to now going to a 2 hour one, each time, from Nov 20, 2 or 3 times per month – but KIX Immigration could do nothing except follow the law!<\/p>\n

So the message is clear, all resident foreigners – at least those of us living outside of the immediate Tokyo area – must complain repeatedly in writing , to MOJ and Immigration officials at the Airports they regularly use!!\n<\/p>\n

Martin
\nENDS\n<\/p>\n

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Martin Issott reports that Kansai Int’l Airport will not have an automated gate system for fingerprinting foreigners, confirmed, for 2007–and probably not even 2008. Which means, a 2 minute immigration queue up to now will change into a 2 hour one, each time you cross the border, from Nov 20. His conclusion: “So the message is clear, all resident foreigners – at least those of us living outside of the immediate Tokyo area – must complain repeatedly in writing , to MOJ and Immigration officials at the Airports they regularly use!!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-problematic-foreign-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}