Temporary departure and re-entry permission

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.
• Please be sure to complete all the steps in the "Procedure Checklist" for Crisis Management and Insurance at the URL below.
  [Risk management and insurance] https://intl-support.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/ryugaku/risk-management/
• 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.）
• If you are leaving Japan temporarily, be sure to submit an Overseas Travel Notification.
  [Overseas Travel Notification] https://intl-support.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/ryugaku/risk-management/overseas_travel/

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.

Checklist for Temporary Leaving Japan

Please use the checklist to ensure that no steps are missed.

• Checklist for temporarily leaving Japan (Japanese)
• Checklist for temporarily leaving Japan (English)

Other Procedures