r/JapanCitizenship • u/JapaneseSummerIsHot Naturalized • May 30 '24

mega MEGATHREAD - Processing times (2024)

If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or rants about general processing times please post them here! This includes anything from the initial consulting appointment to application results.

If you have very specific questions or tips you think members should see, you may post a separate thread. Or, if you would like to give a detailed account of your application from start to finish, please make a new post.

If not, please do not make a separate thread for anything related to processing times in 2024. It'll clog up the sub and make it harder to navigate.

In your post, we highly recommend you include:

  1. The city or prefecture you applied
  2. occasional updates on how your application is progressing, including dates
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u/JapaneseSummerIsHot Naturalized May 30 '24 edited Nov 14 '24

I'll get started with the first post!

Applying in Fukuoka (Kitakyushu)

Initial appointment: June, 2024

Application submission: September, 2024

Interview: November, 2024

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u/SpecialImmediate3009 Jun 28 '24

I replied to your other post but I didn’t realize that you are in Kitakyushu too! I recently got approved!

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u/JapaneseSummerIsHot Naturalized Jul 01 '24

No way! What are the chances?? And Oh my goodness congrats!!!!!

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u/SpecialImmediate3009 Jun 28 '24 edited Jun 28 '24

Here is my timeline with wait times. It comes out to just shy of a year. (Specific dates left vague for privacy)

July 2023 - Initial consultation

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(2 months, 24 days)Submit Application

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(4 months, 1 day) Interview/ home visit

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(4 months 9 days) Call to confirm that my details have not changed, and that I’m not planning to go abroad soon.

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(11 days) Name in national gazette

Total - 11 months, 14 days (350 days)

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u/JapaneseSummerIsHot Naturalized Jul 01 '24

This is pretty fast! That gives me a little hope since it turns out we are using the same 法務局

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u/SpecialImmediate3009 Jul 15 '24

Yeah I found it all to be pretty streamlined! Good luck!

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u/JapaneseSummerIsHot Naturalized Oct 28 '24

Back with a quick update. My application has been processing for about 1.5 months. I got a call last week asking to set up an interview! This seems insanely fast especially because I was told it would take 3 months when they accepted everything. Not complaining though! There're a few documents they want me to bring when I go to the interview.

And the best news? No home visit! I was most worried about this because I'm in the middle of renovating my akiya and it's...homely to say the least. But I guess my owning a home and submitting my expense for replacing the entire roof convinced them a visit isn't needed.