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Regardless of the legal outcome, I found it surprising that humanitarian considerations were dismissed so categorically without any discussion of the circumstances.
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1/2 I asked whether there was any humanitarian consideration in Japan's immigration system for an 81-year-old mother living alone abroad whose daughter is a Japanese citizen.
The officer's response was simply:
"There is no such thing."
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and that I should relocate to Korea if I wanted to care for her.
What troubled me was not the answer itself, but the lack of interest in the details of her situation.
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I'm disappointed by my experience at the Tokyo Immigration Bureau today.
I was advised by phone to visit in person regarding my 81-year-old mother's case. After a long trip and over an hour of waiting, I received a brief response that there was "no such application"
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