{"id":9623,"date":"2011-12-21T02:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9623"},"modified":"2011-12-21T07:56:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:56:14","slug":"gaijinwife-blog-on-her-house-check-is-having-authorities-visiting-permanent-residency-applicants-home-and-throughly-photographing-its-interior-now-sop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9623","title":{"rendered":"Gaijinwife blog on her house check — is having authorities visit Permanent Residency applicant’s home and throughly photograph its interior now SOP?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi Blog. Continuing on with arbitrary bureaucracy in Japan (particularly pertaining to NJ, see newfound arbitrary hurdles when getting married<\/a> or getting rejected for Permanent Residency<\/a>), check this blog out, excerpted below. This degree of background check used to be the domain of people applying for Japanese citizenship (see what it was like for me back between 1998 and 2000 here<\/a>, not to mention Sendaiben’s nasty experience here<\/a>)\u00a0Now it seems that even PR applicants may have their premises policed and photographed by the authorities. Is this happening to others as well? \u00a0Not according to the commenters on Gaijinwife’s blog, but let’s ask Debito.org Readers as well. \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n

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“Men in Black”<\/strong>
\n Gaijinwife blog, Posted on October 21, 2011<\/strong>
\n http:\/\/gaijinwife.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/21\/men-in-black\/<\/a><\/strong>
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Well, actually only one was in black, the other just had on a shirt and tie. Two men from the immigration office \u2013 waiting in their car across the street when I got home from shopping at about 3pm.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

They show me their ID badges and say they are here to do a checkup on my application for permanent residency that I submitted in August. They give me a piece of paper to sign saying that I give them permission to come into the house and have a look round. I have had no warning they would be coming so it is just pure luck I\u2019m not still in my PJs squiffing wine and watching horny housewife porn on an illegal streaming site.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The first thing they do is take a photo of the array of shoes in the genkan \u2013 focussing on the kids shoes. They ask me questions about the kids, where Granny K sleeps and then come into the lounge where they take a photo of the fire \u2013 the DVDs and the lego on the mantlepiece above it. We haven\u2019t used the fire this season yet but when we do all the toys and shit will go and the big metal guard will come out \u2013 they asked about it. I offered to show them but that wasn\u2019t necessary.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Then they wanted to know where the kids clothes were \u2013 as if shoes, lego, DVDs, and a pile of unfolded kids laundry on the sofa wasn\u2019t enough. He even took a picture of a pulled out drawer with kids clothes in it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I then got quizzed on the futon downstairs \u2013 was that the master bedroom? No, I said, it is where I am sleeping cause I\u2019ve got a hacking cough and no point keeping hub up as well. Oh, so you and your hub aren\u2019t sleeping in the same room? No, but we do usually. Would you like to see our bedroom \u2013 its upstairs.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So up we go where more photos are taken of our bedroom (bed miraculously made) and kids bedrooms. They inquire about the black and white photo of my parents when they were 20, don\u2019t ask about the empty suitcase out in the hall but do ask about the big backpack by the front door. Hiking? No, that\u2019s an evacuation kit. He wrote something down.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Am presuming it was highly safety conscious gaijin, with relatively clean house who obviously dislikes laundry and sleeping with her husband. Does appear to have all three children as stated on application…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rest at http:\/\/gaijinwife.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/21\/men-in-black\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gaijinwife: Two men from the immigration office [were] waiting in their car across the street when I got home from shopping at about 3pm. They show me their ID badges and say they are here to do a checkup on my application for permanent residency that I submitted in August. They give me a piece of paper to sign saying that I give them permission to come into the house and have a look round. I have had no warning they would be coming so it is just pure luck I\u2019m not still in my PJs squiffing wine and watching horny housewife porn on an illegal streaming site.<\/p>\n

The first thing they do is take a photo of the array of shoes in the genkan \u2013 focussing on the kids shoes. They ask me questions about the kids, where Granny K sleeps and then come into the lounge where they take a photo of the fire \u2013 the DVDs and the lego on the mantlepiece above it. We haven\u2019t used the fire this season yet but when we do all the toys and shit will go and the big metal guard will come out \u2013 they asked about it. I offered to show them but that wasn\u2019t necessary.<\/p>\n

Then they wanted to know where the kids clothes were \u2013 as if shoes, lego, DVDs, and a pile of unfolded kids laundry on the sofa wasn\u2019t enough. He even took a picture of a pulled out drawer with kids clothes in it. I then got quizzed on the futon downstairs \u2013 was that the master bedroom? No, I said, it is where I am sleeping cause I\u2019ve got a hacking cough and no point keeping hub up as well. Oh, so you and your hub aren\u2019t sleeping in the same room? No, but we do usually. Would you like to see our bedroom \u2013 its upstairs. So up we go where more photos are taken of our bedroom (bed miraculously made) and kids bedrooms….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,33,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinprick-protests","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623","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=9623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}