Stopped when he said he waited forever to get naturalized, skipping 6 years, and then saying he never got his permanent resident card, so he was just living off renewed visas, and they thought it was strange.
It is strange. A lot of the things he said he needed, would have been done in the permanent residence portion of his time in Japan. Just as it is in any country.
charlieyu1 5 minutes ago [-]
Once you are living in the country for a while, you can pretty much do anything and people don’t care about your resident status at all. For my daily lives in UK I only need my address and driving license. You pretty much have the feeling that you’ll be fine without bothering to do the paperwork, that’s how things work in the last 20-50 years.
klipt 1 minutes ago [-]
I thought Japan requires 10 years residence for PR, but only 5 years residence to naturalize, in which case it wouldn't be surprising if many people naturalize before getting PR!
gcanyon 23 minutes ago [-]
> every address you've ever lived at, and the dates you lived there.
Well cross Japan off my list. I would not be able to produce that residence list under any circumstances.
NolF 14 minutes ago [-]
Australia generally requires at least 10 years for some things.
yipinwong 49 minutes ago [-]
why is this HN worthy or related?
pinkmuffinere 26 minutes ago [-]
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. [0]
This gratifies intellectual curiosity -- how does one become a citizen in one of the most isolationist countries? What is that like??? Read this to find out.
3. This community has above average representation of both.
underdeserver 40 minutes ago [-]
The study of arcane procedures and immigration of all sorts comes up here very often.
romanhn 40 minutes ago [-]
I upvoted it because I found it interesting. That is all.
santoshalper 10 minutes ago [-]
It's interesting. That's it. That's the only criteria.
gcanyon 24 minutes ago [-]
I knew Japan made it difficult. I clicked, I read the whole thing. Now I know Japan makes it (nearly) impossible.
I'm a typical HN reader (I think) and I found it interesting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
neya 34 minutes ago [-]
It's not but to be fair HN is full of similar exaggerated instances "I migrated my backend to COBOL because it was faster" (it's really not btw)
ganelonhb 46 minutes ago [-]
I agree, it’s so off topic.
santoshalper 10 minutes ago [-]
What topic?
contingencies 41 minutes ago [-]
Having learned too my own share of languages and conquered bureaucracy and process across them, the manner in which this guy writes comes across as vomit-inducingly glib.
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It is strange. A lot of the things he said he needed, would have been done in the permanent residence portion of his time in Japan. Just as it is in any country.
Well cross Japan off my list. I would not be able to produce that residence list under any circumstances.
This gratifies intellectual curiosity -- how does one become a citizen in one of the most isolationist countries? What is that like??? Read this to find out.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
2. People with money like acquiring passports.
3. This community has above average representation of both.
I'm a typical HN reader (I think) and I found it interesting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯