Sebastian in Could (learn extra right here) wrote a complete piece about his expertise making use of for Japan’s Trusted Traveler Program {that a} Korean reader alerted us about, as this program is someway stored “below the desk” and not likely promoted.
We each truly utilized for this system roughly on the similar time after we had been in Japan, and the purpose was to finish the method after we each left, however this course of takes considerably extra time.
You may entry Japan’s web page for the Trusted Traveler Program right here.
You need to familiarize your self with Sebastian’s piece first:
Expertise Report: Japan’s Trusted Traveler Program (TTP) Is Now Open For New Functions & Entry By way of Automated Gates
My preliminary software for this system was submitted on March 31, and it took six weeks for the immigration division to do the preliminary inspection, which was accomplished on Could 12.
Electronic mail From Japan TTP:
*This e-mail is being robotically despatched to addresses enlisted within the Trusted Traveler Program info system.
Utility ID：0000016XXX
The preliminary examination is accomplished.
Please proceed to take the second-stage examination at one of many designated registration locations by bringing the originals of paperwork submitted within the preliminary examination inside six months of receiving this electronic mail.
*If you happen to fall below Class D [Sufficient funds and credit], be certain to deliver with you the bank card whose info was entered on the time of your software. The bank card will probably be verified and returned after making a photocopy within the second-stage examination.For designated registration locations, please click on the next URL.
http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/ttp2/pdf/list_en.pdf Pay attention to the next while you come to a delegated registration place.
・The second-stage examination could take a while to finish.
Please be sure you arrive at a delegated registration place with loads of time.
・If you happen to meet the registration necessities for Class A [JTTP] or Class D [Sufficient funds and credit], you could have entered Japan twice or extra previously one-year interval on the time of the second-stage examination. (Entry to Japan for the second-stage examination counts in the direction of the requirement.)
・If the submitted photograph of your face doesn’t meet the specs, you could submit one other photograph taken in line with the specs at a delegated registration place.
・If you happen to meet the registration necessities of Class E [Family], you could take the second-stage examination collectively together with your partner or dad or mum who’s the principal applicant or after the principal applicant receives his/her registered person (TTP) card.
・In case your registration is accepted because of the second-stage examination, your registered person (TTP) card will probably be issued. To obtain the cardboard, you could pay a payment of two,200 yen per individual in income stamps.
Income stamps can be found at publish workplaces, comfort shops, and so forth. in Japan.
(Word) Income stamps might not be out there after you go a safety examine in an airport. If you happen to plan to take the second-stage examination on the passport management space, it’s endorsed that you just buy income stamps earlier than going by the safety examine.*Please don’t ship electronic mail to this e-mail tackle since this e-mail was despatched from an tackle that can’t settle for incoming e-mail.
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I used to be in Japan for 2 nights late final week, so I made a decision to finish the method throughout that fast keep.
I adopted Sebastian’s directions and walked to the Japan Publish Workplace to buy the two,200 price of particular stamps that I wanted on the airport when finishing the method.
You should have money to pay for these stamps (no playing cards accepted), so I used the ATM contained in the publish workplace to withdraw 10,000 yen.
I used to be on a morning flight from Haneda to Hong Kong on Friday. I made a decision to take the earliest doable public transportation from Hyatt Regency Yokohama to the airport and obtained there simply after 6 AM.
I went by the exit safety examine, and the girl within the immigration corridor was waving for me to make use of one of many cubicles/machines, however I requested her the place the TTP examine was, and I noticed her face (even the masks on) that she had no concept, and continued to ask me to make use of the common exit desks.
As an alternative, I walked to the immigration window on the furthest proper earlier than exiting the nation and gave them the printout from the TTP system and noticed the confusion.
No one knew about this till I uttered the phrases TTP a number of occasions, after which they sprung into motion and requested when my flight was, as this will likely take a while.
I gave them my passport with the income stamps and sat in one of many chairs normally reserved for many who have hassle exiting the nation (overstays and so forth.).
They apologized a number of occasions for taking a while after which requested for a passport photograph and a bank card (this is among the qualification necessities). I used Amex Platinum.
Then on the 30-minute mark, we moved to the desk that issued the plastic playing cards, and so they tried to learn my fingerprints that had been problematic (dry) however ultimately succeeded.
The 2 immigration officers had been studying the TTP instruction handbook with the required steps highlighted.
It took a complete of fifty minutes from beginning the method on the airport to have the cardboard in my hand, after which I went to the self-service machines that learn the cardboard and the passport to exit the nation.
Conclusion
This TTP software course of is slightly heavy and takes important time. I’m not certain what they did throughout the preliminary inspection interval that took six weeks. They actually need to hurry up the preliminary screening and the airport processes in the event that they plan to roll out this program to a big variety of passengers.
I contemplate this TTP card an insurance coverage coverage in case there are lengthy strains when coming into the nation. I can now use these automated machines, like in Hong Kong, that by no means have any strains.
My entry by Haneda was very clean every week in the past, and there was zero line to enter, and I might have been quickly on the lodge had Air France not left my baggage in Paris.
Each of my passports are expiring quickly, and this TTP card is simply legitimate by early 2025. I think about I’ll enter Japan 6 to eight occasions within the subsequent 18 months.