Introducing visa renewal, status changes, extension, and company set up in Japan for foreign residents

Thank you for visting our site. We, Bridge Estate Inc., are administrative Scrivener's , known also as immigration lawyer, legal office located in Higashi Yamato City in Tokyo. Higashi Yamato City is right next to Tachikawa City to the north, and Tachikawa City is where the branch office of Immigration Services Agency located, so we are quite close to the immigration office, taking about 15min. driving from our office, and the locational advantage enables us to serve our customers with timely reactions, thus offering One Stop Services from VISA renewal up to company establishment effectively.

Specializations of our company as an administrative scrivener(immigration lawyer) consist of 3 subjects as below:

1. VISA Renewals, 2. Company Establishment, 3. Business Permits

As stated above, we serve our customers with ONE stop legal services and help our customers operate business effectively and all the services can be provided either in Japanese or English by the choice of customers.

Understanding anxiety of customers to live or already living in a foreign county, Japan; our mission is to eradicate anxiety and make his/her life in Japan enjoyable and fruitful.

We are dedicated to let our customers realize goals for either obtaining visa statuses and/or establishment of companies, etc and extend our services not only to the legal subjects mentioned above but also to helps with which customers face in daily lives, typically notifications to local governments as well as arrangements such as schools of children and living places in case you change place to live from one to another. As the writer (founder) has a certificate of Real Estate Transaction Specialist and thus offer customers effective proposals with Real Estate.

Competitive pricing is of our importance, especially in the case where you, foreign residents, have to bear the cost of visa renewals or status changes.
Prices we set are based in middle to lower ranges of price levels, referenced data from Japan Federation of Certified Administrative Procedures Legal Specialists Association(Administrative authority of Administrative Scrivener(Immigration lawyers)).

For example, the fee to be charged for "Application for extension of period of stay" of your visa starts from JPY29,800 plus 10% tax. Going to PRICE LIST.

Though we will make every effort for realizing your required tasks, in some cases, your application might be turned down. In that case, we will first retry again. Nevertheless, your application is turned down again, then, we will refund you all the money we have received.

In usual cases, we receive a seed money that is 50% of total estimated amount, you will receive back from us the seed money you have previously paid. Of course, we will make every effort of avoiding such a case, but since decision making is left to discretion of Immigration Services Agency, and having unable to fully eradicate a possibility of rejection by the authority, we set the REFUND POLICY for customers' comfortability for proceeding further with us.

Having mentioned that our office is close to branch office of Immigration Services Agency, taking geographical advantage, we offer our customers timely service and ONE STOP services, for we have a permission from Immigration Services Agency(ISA) to deal with visa on behalf of customers. In this case, you do not have to go to ISA yourself ,and we will go to ISA for you and get things done accordingly.
Also, in case of you, having a plan for establishing your own company and obtaining business permits, pelase let us serve you achieving those goals on your behalf. Though company establishment requires registration at Legal Affairs Bureau, we will collaborate with judicial scriveners for company registration accordingly.

Understanding the importance of acknowleding current state of our customers, communication plays a very important role. If you prefer communicating in English language to Japanese, we gladly communicate you in English in speaking as well as in writing. We have a bilingual staff at all times, for the writer( the founder of the company), Ted Takahashi is a bilingual in English and in Japanese as he spent 6 years in total in overseas, 2 years in Australia and 4 years in USA, and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, so no problem with communication in English, so please feel free to contact us in English as you feel like.

Online application became available since 2019 and expanded its scope to almost all the visa types in Mar. 2022 with exception of the statuses "Diplomat and Temporary Visitors", so the online system is quite convenient for us as well as customers we believe.
The greatest advantage of the online applicaiton is that geographical limitation was uplifted, as areas we can take up were previously designated and limited; not allowed to take up cases outside the designated areas; but now, we can serve for customers anywhere in Japan, so why not using the online application system, and please let us serve you for your visa renewals. Please read on PROCEDURE below for proceeding further with us.

• 1. e-mail to info@bridge-estate.com
• 2. WhatsApp to +81 (0)80 5199 0789 for Ted Takahshi and please send a short message for adding you. (taking "0" out if calling from overseas).
• 3. zoom meeting - please let us know if you want ZOOM meeting.
• 4. LINE -Please scan QR code by clicking here

• 1. You will receive a quotation from us.
• 2. If the quotation is acceptable, we will send you Letter of Appointment and inform you of documents we will need from you, and you sign the LOA and send us other required documents(copy of your passport, etc) and send them back to us.
• 3. You will make your payment (seed money that is 50% of quoted amount) to our bank account by means of T.T. remittance.
• 4. We will inform you of our receipt of the payment (seed money) and will proceed for the requested tasks.
• 5. We will inform you progress of the tasks and expected time of completion.

• 1. You will receive a notification quotation from us.
• 2. If the quotation is acceptable, we will send you Letter of Appointment and inform you of documents we will need from you, and you sign the LOA and send us other required documents(copy of your passport, etc) and send them back to us.
• 3. You will make your payment (seed money that is 50% of quoted amount) to our bank account by means of T.T. remittance.
• 4. We will inform you of our receipt of the payment (seed money) and will proceed for the requested tasks.
• 5. We will inform you progress of the tasks and expected time of completion.