{"id":1195,"date":"2025-10-29T13:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:13:10","slug":"japan-visas-need-a-longer-processing-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/japan-visas-need-a-longer-processing-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Visas need a longer processing time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you hold a passport from a visa exempt country, this doesn&#8217;t apply to you:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mofa.go.jp\/j_info\/visit\/visa\/short\/novisa.html\">https:\/\/www.mofa.go.jp\/j_info\/visit\/visa\/short\/novisa.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But if you don&#8217;t have a passport from that list, you do need a visa.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the change of government in Japan has made the process for getting a visa more taxing on the body supplying the invitation letter (in our case, the Linux Foundation).\u00a0 For this reason, the LF is insisting that anyone who needs a visa letter have their application in to the LF dashboard by <strong>17 November<\/strong> at the latest:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openprofile.dev\/myevents?applyfor=visa-letter\">https:\/\/openprofile.dev\/myevents?applyfor=visa-letter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any queries or problems with the process, please contact <a href=\"mailto:visaletters@linuxfoundation.org\">visaletters@linuxfoundation.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you hold a passport from a visa exempt country, this doesn&#8217;t apply to you: https:\/\/www.mofa.go.jp\/j_info\/visit\/visa\/short\/novisa.html But if you don&#8217;t have a passport from that list, you do need a visa.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the change of government in Japan has made the process for getting a visa more taxing on the body supplying the invitation letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}