u/PracticalPack5113

Application submission: October 2025

Final interview: April 10, 2026

Today, I received a call from the Homukyoku. They asked whether anything had changed regarding: Job, Addres, Relationship status, Travel plans.

I answered no to everything.

After that, they told me that the result should come out in about 2–4 weeks and asked me to stay in Japan during that period.

My background: Living in Japan since 2018, Currently on a 3-year, Engineer/Humanities/International Services (Gijinkoku) visa, No major changes since applying

I’m not sure how to interpret this. Looking through various timelines posted here, some people seem to receive similar calls before approval, while others have different experiences.

Has anyone from Chiba or another Homukyoku received a similar call? Was it ultimately a positive sign, a neutral procedural step, or something else?

I'm here to see if someone may go through the same and similar situation as me.

Background:

• Holding a 5 years Humanities visa, going to renew in Aug 2026, hopefully get a 5 or 3 years one, then I will go apply PR
• Living in Japan over 10 years, meet all requirement for both PR and naturalization
• My husband is also a foreigner, we get married in Japan and have a kid, my husband is with 5 years Humanities visa and my kid has a dependent visa under my husband's visa

What I am thinking now:

• get a PR for myself and my kid
• eventually naturalized for the whole family
• I want to have a PR first as a safe net, so I do not need to worry for my visa anymore at least

Reasons why our family would like to naturalized:

• mainly for my kid, he has a Japanese name (with kanji), but the surname is not, we are planning to live in Japan, not going to move back to our home town. I think having a Japanese surename and naturalised will only bring benefit to my kid (at least reduce chance to be discriminated due to his surname)
• Political reason that having a Japanese passport is much better than holding the passport we are having now

It would be great to hear others' experiences as I may miss some important points during my planning and thinking.

Arigatou gozaimasu!