Residency status granted to Japanese-Brazilian woman to rejoin her husband
A 21 year old Japanese-Brazilian woman was granted an authorized residence status certificate by the Nagoya Regional Immigration Bureau. They reversed their earlier decision to refuse her request to reenter Japan to join her husband, also a Japanese-Brazilian who is now living in Japan. Giullyane Futenma filed a lawsuit against the government earlier this month when she was denied residency status to re-enter the country.
Futenma and her family moved to Japan when she was 7 years old but in 2009, she returned to Brazil under a government program which enables foreigners of Japanese descent to go back to their home countries if they cannot find work in Japan. The rules say that you cannot re-enter the country if you left using government aid, but was later reduced to three years after leaving. She married fellow Japanese-Brazilian Lucas Tetsuo in Brazil in 2011. He went back to Japan in 2012 and found work in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Futenma wanted to rejoin her husband in Japan so he applied for her resident eligibility in December last year but was denied residence status by the courts in January because she left under the program.
She filed the lawsuit in central Japan’s Shizuoka District Court and claimed that she was being denied the right to live with her spouse, especially since it’s been three years since she left for Brazil. According to her lawyer, Ryo Takagai, she will be dropping the lawsuit since the immigration authorities had appropriately changed their minds in giving her resident status.
[ via Jiji Press ]
- Brazil, Government, Immigration, Japanese-Brazilians, Lawsuit, Nagoya, Shizuoka, Shizuoka District Court
