Temporary leave and Re-entry

When international students go abroad for temporary return, research, travel, etc., please follow the procedures below.

• Consult your Academic Advisor.
• If you are receiving a scholarship, you will not be able to receive it for the month in which you do not sign.
• Submit the form “Overseas Travel Notification” via Acanthus Portal Web Class and apply for “Overseas Travel Insurance.” Please look at the Procedure 2 in the following URL.
  https://www2.adm.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/ryukou/sgu/htdocs/international/risk/index.html
• If you live in Kanazawa University International dormitories, you need to submit the "Notification of Absence" form to the person in charge of each dormitory. (For absences of more than a week.）
• When you return to Japan, log in the Acanthus Portal account and submit a "Return Notification." Submit it from Step 5.

Special re-entry permit system

　If you are going to leave Japan for less than 1 year with a valid passport and a valid residence status in Japan, in principle, you will not be
required to apply for a re-entry permit at the Immigration Bureau.（This is called the "special reentry permit".）

Please note that that you will lose your resident status if you fail to re-enter Japan within 1 year of your departure. Foreign residents who have
departed from Japan on a special re-entry permit will not be able to extend that permit while abroad.

https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/applications/guide/minashisainyukoku.html

<Important Reminder>

• You are able to use the special re-entry permit system if you are in a middle of procedures to issue your Residence Card and have a stamp in
  your passport that notes your Residence Card will be issued at a later date.
• At departure from Japan, be sure to present your Residence Card, and do not forget to complete procedure to check the box in the
  "Embarkation Card for Re-Entrant" (ED Card.） If you forget this procedure, you cannot re-enter in Japan. There is no fee for this.
• If the period of stay expires within one year, that day will be the expiration date.

  

• If you departed from Japan without the necessary procedures or did not go back by the deadline, you will lose your Status of Residence in
  Japan.