Japan Permanent Residency Self-Diagnostic Checklist & Points Calculator

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PR Self-Audit Checklist
A statutory self-audit covering 10-Year Standard, Spouse of Japanese/PR, 70-Point HSP, 80-Point HSP, J-Skip Special HSP, Long-Term Resident, Child of Japanese/PR
HSP Points Calculator
Calculate your points for the 1-year (80 pts) or 3-year (70 pts) fast track based on your degrees, salary, experience, and age.
Open Master Diagnostic Checklist (Google Sheets)
The complete checklist and reference guide as a Google Sheets spreadsheet. Opens an external site; use File → Download to save a copy. Nothing you enter in this tool is sent.

Submission Checklist
Official document checklist tailored to your application route, including lookback periods and folder assembly guidelines.
Revised PR Guidelines Assessment (Public Pension & Livelihood Standards)
Test your household income and projected pension against Japan's proposed permanent residency rules.

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Application Route:

Requirements update automatically based on route.

Submission Checklist (提出書類チェックリスト)

Official document checklist based on Immigration Services Agency guidelines for your selected route.
Filing Tip: Use paper clips or clear folders for each document set instead of staples or hole punches

General Document Validity & Submission Rules

3-Month Expiry Rule: Japanese-issued official certificates (住民票, 課税・納税証明書, 登記事項証明書) must be issued within 3 months of the filing date. Collect them last.
Japanese Translations (訳文): Any foreign language document must be accompanied by a Japanese translation placed directly behind the original, specifying the translator's full name, address, and signature date.
Missing Document Statement (理由書): If a requested document cannot be obtained, submit an explanatory statement titled 「理由書（〇〇を提出できない理由）」 stating the reason and alternative proof provided.
Bank Records: Print the actual screen (Web通帳 is fully accepted); CSV or Excel exports are rejected.
Guarantor Requirements: Guarantor must be a Japanese citizen or PR holder. Requires only the 1-page 身元保証書 and front copy of Driver's License or My Number card. (Tax/employment records abolished June 2022).

Document Bundles

Revised PR Guidelines Assessment (Public Pension & Livelihood Standards)

Japan's PR guideline changed on 1 October 2026. What changes for you depends on when you apply.

Applying on or after 1 April 2027: all the new rules apply, including the household income and pension checks below.

Applied on or after 1 April 2026 and still waiting for a decision on 1 October 2026: ISA now checks your household income, and whether your household could end up relying on public support, against the new rules.

Applying between 2 October 2026 and 31 March 2027: the guideline does not clearly say whether the new income check applies. It is safer to assume it does.

ISA has not published the income or pension amounts it uses. The amounts in this tool come from government statistics, mainly the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's 2025 household survey. Treat them as estimates.

Household Income Standard

Must continuously meet or exceed the average income of Japanese households by household size

Benchmark Survey Statistic:

Household Size (世帯人数):

Overseas Dependents (海外扶養):

Added to household size (enter people living with you in Household Size)

Applicant Gross Income (本人年収・万円):

Spouse Gross Income (配偶者年収・万円):

Counts only if the spouse holds a work status (就労資格). 家族滞在 earnings under 資格外活動許可 are excluded

Other Working Family Income (合算・万円):

Counts only for members holding a work status (就労資格)

Projected Pension Standard & Asset Offset

Applications from April 1, 2027 only. Benchmark: the pension of 30 years at the household income level under Employees' Pension (厚生年金)

Current Age (現在の年齢):

Retirement / Work End Age (就労予定年齢):

Past Employees' Pension (厚生年金年数):

Past National Pension Only (国民年金年数):

Optional Nenkin Teikibin Accrued Portion (ねんきん定期便報酬比例見込額・万円/年):

Asset Conversion Years Y_cap (tool assumption; the guideline gives no figure):

Additional 2026 Guideline Changes

Spouse Route Requirement: Married for 5+ years AND residing in Japan for 3+ years (previously 3 years marriage and 1 year residence). Applies to applications from April 1, 2027.

Language Proficiency: Japanese at CEFR B1 or above. Not required of Highly Skilled Professionals on the HSP routes and their family, of anyone with 6+ years of Japanese primary or secondary schooling, or of a PR holder's child born in Japan whose parent has B1.

Child Education: School-age children living in Japan are enrolled in elementary or junior high school.

Contribution Guideline Abolition: The separate 『我が国への貢献』 guideline is abolished; its criteria now sit in 第4 of the PR guideline.

Rules & Systems Check: Understanding of Japan's rules, centred on the 生活・就労ガイドブック, checked by a method ISA will designate.

Absences: In the 10 years before filing, one trip abroad of 6+ months, or 2.5+ years abroad in total, without good reason counts against you.

Longest Period of Stay: A 3-year period still counts as the longest for applications filed by March 31, 2027, and after that only for a first application by someone holding 3 years on March 31, 2027 and decided before it expires.

SIMULATION RESULTS

HOUSEHOLD INCOME EVALUATION

- COMPLIANT

Qualifying: ¥0 / Required: ¥0

PROJECTED PENSION EVALUATION

- COMPLIANT

Projected: ¥0/yr / Benchmark: ¥0/yr

Financial Asset Offset Required (補填資産):

¥0

Liquid bank deposits or real estate equity can make up for the pension shortfall. Younger applicants have lower asset requirements.

Statutory Disclaimer & Legal Framework

法定免責事項および法令根拠

Statutory Reference Register (REF-01 through REF-22)

Official Japanese legal citations, provisions, and statutory rules mapped to diagnostic checkpoints. Click any Ref ID to view the full failure risk analysis and government source.

Ref ID	Category	Authority / Law Title	Governing Legal Rule