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  "id": "jp/isa/certificate-of-eligibility-application",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Japan Certificate of Eligibility Application — Applicant Cover Sheet",
  "description": "The shared applicant-identity cover sheet ('For applicant, part 1') of Japan's Application for Certificate of Eligibility (在留資格認定証明書交付申請書) — Appended Form No. 6-3 (別記第六号の三様式) to the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act. A Certificate of Eligibility (COE) is the pre-clearance an organization or individual in Japan applies for on behalf of a foreign national before that person applies for the matching entry visa at a Japanese embassy or consulate abroad; it is the standard gateway for nearly every non-tourist status of residence (work, study, dependent, spouse, etc.). The Immigration Services Agency (ISA, part of the Ministry of Justice) publishes roughly 30 lettered category-specific variants of this form (one per status of residence, e.g. Student, Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services, Spouse or Child of Japanese National), each 4-6 pages long. Page 1 of every variant checked this cycle (Student, Religious Activities, and Spouse or Child of Permanent Resident — three independently downloaded PDFs) is byte-for-byte the same applicant-identity cover sheet, reproduced verbatim across every category: nationality, date of birth, name, sex, place of birth, marital status, occupation, home-country residence, address and phone in Japan, passport details, the purpose-of-entry/status-of-residence checklist itself (all ~30 categories, since this page is what routes the applicant to the correct category-specific supplement), intended entry date and port, intended length of stay, accompanying persons, intended visa-application location, past entry/exit history, past COE application history, criminal record, deportation history, and family members/co-residents in Japan. This document models only that shared cover sheet. It does NOT model any category-specific supplement (pages 2 onward, one of ~30 lettered variants depending on purposeOfEntry), nor the separate 'for organization' pages a sponsoring employer, school, or host completes for many categories — a real submission always also includes at least one of those, selected by the purposeOfEntry value modelled here. This mirrors the base-return-plus-annexes pattern this registry already uses for the Czech Republic's income tax return and its Přílohy (cz/mf/priznani-k-dani-z-prijmu-fyzickych-osob and its priloha-1..4 companions): a genuinely universal base document, with each category-specific supplement left as its own candidate for a future companion-schedule cycle. This is not a Schengen/EU-harmonized visa template — Japan's immigration-status framework (the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act) is sui generis and shares no field structure with the EU national-visa forms already in this registry (e.g. de/auswaertiges-amt/national-visa-application), so no duplicate-detection comparison applies. See VERIFICATION.md for the full field-by-field sourcing record, the position-based PDF re-extraction method used to reconstruct the purpose-of-entry checkbox grid, and every disclosed scope decision.",
  "status": "draft",
  "jurisdiction": {
    "country": "JP",
    "level": "national"
  },
  "authority": {
    "name": "Immigration Services Agency of Japan (出入国在留管理庁)",
    "abbreviation": "ISA",
    "url": "https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/"
  },
  "process": {
    "type": "application",
    "language": "ja"
  },
  "source": {
    "url": "https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/930004044.pdf",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-07-09",
    "documentRef": "別記第六号の三様式（第六条の二関係）／Appended Form No. 6-3 (Article 6-2 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act) — 在留資格認定証明書交付申請書 (APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF ELIGIBILITY), 申請人等作成用１／'For applicant, part 1'. This document is the 'P' (Student, 留学) category variant, linked from https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/applications/status/student.html; its page 1 was confirmed byte-for-byte identical (aside from immaterial PDF text-stream ordering) to page 1 of the 'T' (Spouse or Child of Permanent Resident) variant at https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/930004054.pdf and the 'K' (Religious Activities) variant at https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/930004037.pdf, confirming page 1 is the shared, category-agnostic cover sheet this document models."
  },
  "verification": {
    "method": "manual-source-review-v1",
    "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-07-09",
    "verifiedBy": "GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer)",
    "nextReviewBy": "2027-01-09",
    "notes": "GOV-2005: GovSchema Standard Research cycle opening Japan as the registry's 28th jurisdiction. Screened DMV (National Police Agency / prefectural police — no downloadable home-fillable application PDF found for the driver's licence itself; it is issued/renewed via an in-person counter process, confirmed dead end), Business Formation (Legal Affairs Bureau, houmukyoku.moj.go.jp — a genuine, live, unauthenticated stock-company incorporation registration-application PDF exists with rich extractable field labels; a strong candidate flagged for a future cycle but not chosen this cycle), National ID (J-LIS My Number Card application, kojinbango-card.go.jp — a genuine live bilingual generic application PDF exists with an annotated instructions page; also a strong candidate flagged for a future cycle but not chosen), Visa/immigration (this document), and Passport (mofa.go.jp — reconfirmed a dead end per GOV-1174, see below). Chose this Certificate of Eligibility application because: (a) it is bilingual Japanese/English on the same official page, removing translation-fidelity risk; (b) its page 1 is independently confirmed identical across every category variant checked, giving unusually strong confidence in a universal-scope document; (c) it has the richest, most immigration-law-grounded field set of the candidates found; (d) Visa was the vertical with the largest proportional global gap of the candidates screened. Passport (mofa.go.jp) returns HTTP 403 to both a plain unauthenticated fetch and a browser-User-Agent fetch alike — a domain-wide block, consistent with GOV-1174's prior 'fully IP-blocked' finding, not retried. However, moj.go.jp (Ministry of Justice, parent of ISA) and houmukyoku.moj.go.jp (Legal Affairs Bureau) were separately found this cycle to return HTTP 403 only to a plain `curl` request with curl's own default User-Agent string, and HTTP 200 to a request carrying either an ordinary desktop-browser User-Agent or this repository's own `tools/verify-sources.mjs` User-Agent string ('GovSchema-source-verifier/1 (+https://github.com/hellogov-ai/govschema)') — i.e. narrow bot-mitigation keyed on the default-curl signature specifically, not an IP-level block like mofa.go.jp's and not a block against this tool's own requests. Confirmed directly: `node tools/verify-sources.mjs registry/jp/isa/certificate-of-eligibility-application/0.1.0` reports '9 URLs checked, 0 warning(s)... all clear' — every cited moj.go.jp URL resolves cleanly under that tool's real request path, re-confirmed live immediately before opening this PR."
  },
  "maturity": {
    "level": "structural-reference",
    "criteria": {
      "structuralReference": true,
      "verifiedSchema": false,
      "agentReadySchema": false,
      "executionTestedSchema": false
    },
    "method": "maturity-self-assessment-v1",
    "assertedBy": "GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer)",
    "assertedAt": "2026-07-09"
  },
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "fields": [
    {
      "name": "nationality",
      "label": "Nationality/Region",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 1",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 100 }
    },
    {
      "name": "dateOfBirth",
      "label": "Date of birth",
      "type": "date",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "sensitive-pii",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 2"
    },
    {
      "name": "familyName",
      "label": "Family name",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 3",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 100 }
    },
    {
      "name": "givenName",
      "label": "Given name",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 3",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 100 }
    },
    {
      "name": "sex",
      "label": "Sex",
      "type": "enum",
      "required": true,
      "validation": { "enum": ["male", "female"] },
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 4"
    },
    {
      "name": "placeOfBirth",
      "label": "Place of birth",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 5",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 200 }
    },
    {
      "name": "maritalStatus",
      "label": "Marital status",
      "type": "enum",
      "required": true,
      "validation": { "enum": ["married", "single"] },
      "description": "The form's own item 6 label is literally '配偶者の有無' (whether the applicant has a spouse), printed with the official English gloss 'Marital status' and checkbox values 有/無 rendered in English as Married/Single — a binary choice, unlike the broader marital-status enums (single/married/divorced/widowed/etc.) used elsewhere in this registry's EU-style visa forms.",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 6"
    },
    {
      "name": "occupation",
      "label": "Occupation",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 7",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 200 }
    },
    {
      "name": "homeTownOrCity",
      "label": "Home town/city",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "description": "本国における居住地 — the applicant's town/city of residence in their home country.",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 8",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 200 }
    },
    {
      "name": "addressInJapan",
      "label": "Address in Japan",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "日本における連絡先 — the intended contact address in Japan. The source form provides a single free-text block (no structured street/city/postal-code sub-boxes), so this is modelled as one field.",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 9",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 300 }
    },
    {
      "name": "telephoneNumber",
      "label": "Telephone No.",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 9",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 30 }
    },
    {
      "name": "cellularPhoneNumber",
      "label": "Cellular phone No.",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Printed alongside telephoneNumber with no visible optional/required marking on the source form; modelled as optional since it is a secondary contact number distinct from the primary telephoneNumber box. Disclosed as a judgment call in VERIFICATION.md.",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 9",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 30 }
    },
    {
      "name": "passportNumber",
      "label": "Passport Number",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "sensitive-pii",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 10",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 30 }
    },
    {
      "name": "passportExpiryDate",
      "label": "Passport date of expiration",
      "type": "date",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 10"
    },
    {
      "name": "purposeOfEntry",
      "label": "Purpose of entry",
      "type": "enum",
      "required": true,
      "validation": {
        "enum": [
          "professor", "instructor", "artist", "cultural-activities", "religious-activities", "journalist",
          "intra-company-transferee", "researcher-transferee", "business-manager", "researcher",
          "engineer-specialist-in-humanities-international-services",
          "nursing-care", "skilled-labor",
          "designated-activities-researcher-or-it-engineer-of-designated-org",
          "designated-activities-graduate-from-university-in-japan",
          "specified-skilled-worker-i", "specified-skilled-worker-ii",
          "entertainer", "student", "trainee",
          "technical-intern-training-i", "technical-intern-training-ii", "technical-intern-training-iii",
          "dependent",
          "designated-activities-dependent-of-researcher-or-it-engineer",
          "designated-activities-dependent-of-epa",
          "designated-activities-dependent-of-graduate-from-university-in-japan",
          "spouse-or-child-of-japanese-national", "spouse-or-child-of-permanent-resident", "long-term-resident",
          "highly-skilled-professional-i-a", "highly-skilled-professional-i-b", "highly-skilled-professional-i-c",
          "other"
        ]
      },
      "description": "One of the ~30 status-of-residence categories checked on the form's item 11 grid, confirmed live and reconstructed in on-page reading order via x/y-coordinate re-extraction (see VERIFICATION.md): Professor (I), Instructor (I), Artist (J), Cultural Activities (J), Religious Activities (K), Journalist (L), Intra-company Transferee (L), Researcher — Transferee (L), Business Manager (M), Researcher (N), Engineer / Specialist in Humanities / International Services (N), Nursing Care (N), Skilled Labor (N), Designated Activities — Researcher or IT engineer of a designated org (N), Designated Activities — Graduate from a university in Japan (N), Specified Skilled Worker i (V), Specified Skilled Worker ii (V), Entertainer (O), Student (P), Trainee (Q), Technical Intern Training i/ii/iii (Y), Dependent (R), Designated Activities — Dependent of Researcher or IT engineer (R), Designated Activities — Dependent of EPA (R), Designated Activities — Dependent of Graduate (R), Spouse or Child of Japanese National (T), Spouse or Child of Permanent Resident (T), Long Term Resident (T), Highly Skilled Professional i(a)/i(b)/i(c) (no letter code printed), Others (U). The selected value routes which category-specific supplement (pages 2 onward of the matching lettered form) the applicant must also submit — out of scope for this document; see VERIFICATION.md.",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 11"
    },
    {
      "name": "intendedEntryDate",
      "label": "Date of entry",
      "type": "date",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 12"
    },
    {
      "name": "portOfEntry",
      "label": "Port of entry",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 13",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 100 }
    },
    {
      "name": "intendedLengthOfStay",
      "label": "Intended length of stay",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "description": "滞在予定期間 — free text on the source form (no unit selector box); the official worked example fills in '5 years' for a Student-category applicant.",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 14",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 50 }
    },
    {
      "name": "accompanyingPersons",
      "label": "Accompanying persons, if any",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 15"
    },
    {
      "name": "intendedPlaceToApplyForVisa",
      "label": "Intended place to apply for visa",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "description": "査証申請予定地 — the Japanese embassy/consulate location abroad where the applicant intends to apply for the entry visa once this certificate is issued.",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 16",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 200 }
    },
    {
      "name": "pastEntryExitHistory",
      "label": "Past entry into / departure from Japan",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 17"
    },
    {
      "name": "pastEntryExitCount",
      "label": "Past entry into / departure from Japan — number of times",
      "type": "integer",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "pastEntryExitHistory", "equals": true },
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 17",
      "validation": { "minimum": 0 }
    },
    {
      "name": "pastEntryLatestEntryDate",
      "label": "The latest entry — from",
      "type": "date",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "pastEntryExitHistory", "equals": true },
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 17"
    },
    {
      "name": "pastEntryLatestDepartureDate",
      "label": "The latest entry — to",
      "type": "date",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "pastEntryExitHistory", "equals": true },
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 17"
    },
    {
      "name": "pastCoeApplicationHistory",
      "label": "Past history of applying for a certificate of eligibility",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 18"
    },
    {
      "name": "pastCoeApplicationCount",
      "label": "Past history of applying for a certificate of eligibility — number of times",
      "type": "integer",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "pastCoeApplicationHistory", "equals": true },
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 18",
      "validation": { "minimum": 0 }
    },
    {
      "name": "pastCoeApplicationNonIssuanceCount",
      "label": "Of these applications, the number of times of non-issuance",
      "type": "integer",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "pastCoeApplicationHistory", "equals": true },
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 18",
      "validation": { "minimum": 0 }
    },
    {
      "name": "criminalRecord",
      "label": "Criminal record (in Japan / overseas)",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": true,
      "description": "犯罪を理由とする処分を受けたことの有無 — includes dispositions due to traffic violations, per the source form's own note.",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 19"
    },
    {
      "name": "criminalRecordDetails",
      "label": "Criminal record — detail",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "sensitive-pii",
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "criminalRecord", "equals": true },
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 19",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 1000 }
    },
    {
      "name": "deportationHistory",
      "label": "Departure by deportation / departure order",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 20"
    },
    {
      "name": "deportationCount",
      "label": "Departure by deportation / departure order — number of times",
      "type": "integer",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "deportationHistory", "equals": true },
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 20",
      "validation": { "minimum": 0 }
    },
    {
      "name": "deportationLatestDate",
      "label": "The latest departure by deportation",
      "type": "date",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "deportationHistory", "equals": true },
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 20"
    },
    {
      "name": "familyInJapan",
      "label": "Family in Japan (father, mother, spouse, children, siblings, grandparents, uncle, aunt and others) and anyone you currently reside with",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 21"
    },
    {
      "name": "familyInJapanDetails",
      "label": "Family in Japan and co-residents — relationship, name, date of birth, nationality/region, intended co-residence, place of employment/school, residence card or Special Permanent Resident Certificate number",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "familyInJapan", "equals": true },
      "description": "The source form provides a repeating multi-row table (relationship / name / date of birth / nationality-region / intended to reside with applicant or not / place of employment or school / residence card number or Special Permanent Resident Certificate number). Per this registry's established GSP-0009 treatment for repeating tables where GovSchema has no native array/repeating-field type, collapsed into one free-text field (one entry per family member/co-resident, semicolon-separated).",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1, item 21",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 2000 }
    }
  ],
  "documents": [
    {
      "id": "applicantPhoto",
      "label": "Applicant photo (40mm × 30mm)",
      "category": "identity-document",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "sourceRef": "Application for Certificate of Eligibility, part 1 — photo box printed directly on the cover sheet"
    }
  ]
}