運転免許 失効手続き
For unopen to reason, it came to me every bit I came downwardly the elevator. I impulsively reached for my wallet, pulled out my driver's licence and, certain enough, it had expired ii weeks before.
If your license expires inwards Nippon when yous should have got renewed it, it is called shikko 失効, i.e., lapsed, or invalid.
It's non that big a deal. You only have got to repeat the whole application procedure for a novel one, which, if zilch has changed too much since terminal time, is time-consuming (a twain of hours).
To my shame, it has happened to me before. In add-on to going through the whole rigmarole, including having my eyes tested, I had to sit down through a one-hour traffic security seminar - which was genuinely good done, alongside lots of visuals - reserved for those who have got done something amiss.
I telephoned ahead a few days agone to encounter what I should create this time, too ane of the questions I was asked was "Were yous out of the province at the fourth dimension your licence expired?" It exactly so happens that I was. I was inwards Turpan, China, for 5 days, neatly enveloping the appointment my licence expired. It so turns out that beingness out of the province is a watertight argue for non having renewed your licence.
I went to the Samezu Driver's Licence Center this morning. It opens at 8am, so I got at that topographic point when it opened so I wouldn't endure belatedly for work. (The Driver's Licence Center is closed on weekends.)
Because I had been out of the country, I went to exclusively ii counters: No.1, where they inspect your licence, await at the notification postcard yous may have got been sent past times the Center, too give yous the correct forms to fill upward out, too and then No.6, the "Shikko" counter, which doesn't opened upward until 8.30am.
I filled out the form, waited inwards forepart of counter no.6 until it opened (there was exclusively ane mortal waiting at this counter also me), too explained myself to them when my plough came.
Everyone at the Center is the lively, cheerful, practical type who bargain alongside things warmly, briskly nonetheless conscientiously, too brand themselves real clearly understood.
The guy took my shape too looked at my passport to vouch that I'd genuinely been out of Nippon on the appointment my licence expired. I should have got idea of it before, but the exclusively stamps were from the Chinese immigration authorities. I e'er usage the automated passport gate at the immigration banking concern stand upward for at the airport, so don't have got whatsoever stamps inwards my passport from the Japanese authorities.
He said I'd have got to approach the Personal Information Office (kojin joho hogo kakari 個人情報保護係) of the Ministry of Justice (Homusho 法務省) too brand a asking for disclosure (kaiji seikyu 開示請求 ) for a tape of my entries into too departures from Nippon (shutsu nyukoku no kiroku 出入国の記録 ). Once the print-out was received, I should select it dorsum to the Driver's Licence Center too submit it every bit proof of my having been out of the country, therefore letting me off the hook.
The option was to undergo the exam from the kickoff again, which would have got taken a twain of hours, but, inwards that example my adjacent licence would stay normal Blue, whereas, if I could excuse myself for having failed to renew, my adjacent licence would endure Gold - awarded to those who have got committed no traffic violations for the past times 5 years. The licence bill of fare genuinely features a beautiful gilt strip, instead of the normal bluish one, glowingly telling the earth what a compliant, prophylactic (or, inwards my case, real occasional) driver yous are.
I lust for Gold, particularly since I had missed out on it terminal fourth dimension - when I didn't have got an excuse for having allow my license lapse - so opted for the Ministry of Justice route. So at lunchtime today, I went to the Ministry of Justice edifice no.6A, exactly across from Hibiya Park.
The civilization hither was quite unlike from that at the Licence Center. I had to explicate what my trouble organisation was to a guard at the gate, explicate ane time again too break the contents of my pocketbook to a guard inside, larn to the reception desk where a slightly nervy older adult woman gave me a badge to article of apparel too commanded me to provide it "without fail" on my agency out. Another guard too then escorted me to the constituent I wanted.
The constituent was every bit tranquillity every bit a church, too the immature human who saw me was slightly small (to laid out with). He gave me a shape to fill upward in, I selected for print-out exclusively the calendar month during which my licence had expired. After I handed the shape dorsum to him, he wanted to encounter my passport, asked if I had whatsoever documentation attesting to the appointment I became a Japanese citizen (I didn't), so made create alongside my wellness insurance bill of fare every bit ID, too and then sent me downstairs to purchase a 300 yen revenue postage stamp (shunyu inshi 収入印紙).
By the fourth dimension I came back, he had mellowed somewhat (maybe he idea my kanji were kirei [beautiful] - that e'er helps). He asked me if I wanted to come upward dorsum to selection upward the document, or if I'd similar it posted. I said I'd selection it upward inwards person. He said it usually takes 10 days to 2 weeks. The guy at the Driver's Licence Center had prepared me for this, too told me to state I needed it urgently. So I told him what it was for too that I was unable to drive until I received it. He asked me when I would similar it by, I said the 9th, too he said they would create their best too telephone me when it was ready.
I thanked him, left, handed dorsum my badge, too walked dorsum to work.
I'm going overseas ane time again on the 11th, so real much promise they tin flaming it dorsum to me past times the ninth so that I tin flaming larn my licence - my Gold driver's license - reissued earlier I leave.
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For unopen to reason, it came to me every bit I came downwardly the elevator. I impulsively reached for my wallet, pulled out my driver's licence and, certain enough, it had expired ii weeks before.
If your license expires inwards Nippon when yous should have got renewed it, it is called shikko 失効, i.e., lapsed, or invalid.
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| My invalidated Japanese driver's licence |
It's non that big a deal. You only have got to repeat the whole application procedure for a novel one, which, if zilch has changed too much since terminal time, is time-consuming (a twain of hours).
To my shame, it has happened to me before. In add-on to going through the whole rigmarole, including having my eyes tested, I had to sit down through a one-hour traffic security seminar - which was genuinely good done, alongside lots of visuals - reserved for those who have got done something amiss.
I telephoned ahead a few days agone to encounter what I should create this time, too ane of the questions I was asked was "Were yous out of the province at the fourth dimension your licence expired?" It exactly so happens that I was. I was inwards Turpan, China, for 5 days, neatly enveloping the appointment my licence expired. It so turns out that beingness out of the province is a watertight argue for non having renewed your licence.
I went to the Samezu Driver's Licence Center this morning. It opens at 8am, so I got at that topographic point when it opened so I wouldn't endure belatedly for work. (The Driver's Licence Center is closed on weekends.)
Because I had been out of the country, I went to exclusively ii counters: No.1, where they inspect your licence, await at the notification postcard yous may have got been sent past times the Center, too give yous the correct forms to fill upward out, too and then No.6, the "Shikko" counter, which doesn't opened upward until 8.30am.
I filled out the form, waited inwards forepart of counter no.6 until it opened (there was exclusively ane mortal waiting at this counter also me), too explained myself to them when my plough came.
Everyone at the Center is the lively, cheerful, practical type who bargain alongside things warmly, briskly nonetheless conscientiously, too brand themselves real clearly understood.
The guy took my shape too looked at my passport to vouch that I'd genuinely been out of Nippon on the appointment my licence expired. I should have got idea of it before, but the exclusively stamps were from the Chinese immigration authorities. I e'er usage the automated passport gate at the immigration banking concern stand upward for at the airport, so don't have got whatsoever stamps inwards my passport from the Japanese authorities.
He said I'd have got to approach the Personal Information Office (kojin joho hogo kakari 個人情報保護係) of the Ministry of Justice (Homusho 法務省) too brand a asking for disclosure (kaiji seikyu 開示請求 ) for a tape of my entries into too departures from Nippon (shutsu nyukoku no kiroku 出入国の記録 ). Once the print-out was received, I should select it dorsum to the Driver's Licence Center too submit it every bit proof of my having been out of the country, therefore letting me off the hook.
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| Instructions from the driving license middle for applying for unloosen of personal information from the Ministry of Justice |
The option was to undergo the exam from the kickoff again, which would have got taken a twain of hours, but, inwards that example my adjacent licence would stay normal Blue, whereas, if I could excuse myself for having failed to renew, my adjacent licence would endure Gold - awarded to those who have got committed no traffic violations for the past times 5 years. The licence bill of fare genuinely features a beautiful gilt strip, instead of the normal bluish one, glowingly telling the earth what a compliant, prophylactic (or, inwards my case, real occasional) driver yous are.
I lust for Gold, particularly since I had missed out on it terminal fourth dimension - when I didn't have got an excuse for having allow my license lapse - so opted for the Ministry of Justice route. So at lunchtime today, I went to the Ministry of Justice edifice no.6A, exactly across from Hibiya Park.
The civilization hither was quite unlike from that at the Licence Center. I had to explicate what my trouble organisation was to a guard at the gate, explicate ane time again too break the contents of my pocketbook to a guard inside, larn to the reception desk where a slightly nervy older adult woman gave me a badge to article of apparel too commanded me to provide it "without fail" on my agency out. Another guard too then escorted me to the constituent I wanted.
The constituent was every bit tranquillity every bit a church, too the immature human who saw me was slightly small (to laid out with). He gave me a shape to fill upward in, I selected for print-out exclusively the calendar month during which my licence had expired. After I handed the shape dorsum to him, he wanted to encounter my passport, asked if I had whatsoever documentation attesting to the appointment I became a Japanese citizen (I didn't), so made create alongside my wellness insurance bill of fare every bit ID, too and then sent me downstairs to purchase a 300 yen revenue postage stamp (shunyu inshi 収入印紙).
By the fourth dimension I came back, he had mellowed somewhat (maybe he idea my kanji were kirei [beautiful] - that e'er helps). He asked me if I wanted to come upward dorsum to selection upward the document, or if I'd similar it posted. I said I'd selection it upward inwards person. He said it usually takes 10 days to 2 weeks. The guy at the Driver's Licence Center had prepared me for this, too told me to state I needed it urgently. So I told him what it was for too that I was unable to drive until I received it. He asked me when I would similar it by, I said the 9th, too he said they would create their best too telephone me when it was ready.
I thanked him, left, handed dorsum my badge, too walked dorsum to work.
I'm going overseas ane time again on the 11th, so real much promise they tin flaming it dorsum to me past times the ninth so that I tin flaming larn my licence - my Gold driver's license - reissued earlier I leave.
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