日本特定技能（特定技能）：制度如何运作

特定技能（特定技能）：（i）涵盖 19 个领域，累计停留原则上最长 5 年；（ii）没有年限上限，并可带家属。

审阅于 2026-10-26

这是什么？涵盖哪些领域？

特定技能（i）是从事需要相当程度知识或经验的指定领域工作的资格；（ii）是从事需要熟练、专家级能力的工作的资格。该制度于 2019-04 为仍然招不到人的领域而设立。

截至 2026-09，（i）涵盖 19 个指定领域。（ii）截至 2026-04 涵盖 11 个领域（工业制品制造业仅限部分类别）；护理、道路运输、铁路、林业、木材产业、布草供应、物流仓储和资源循环没有（ii）。

（i）有哪些考试和要求？

需要通过各领域的技能考试，并通过考试确认日语达到 A2.2 以上：JFT-Basic 或 JLPT N4 以上。护理、公交和出租车驾驶、铁路车站工作人员的日语要求另有规定。须年满 18 岁，没有学历要求。

技能实习（ii）良好结业且技能与新工作相关的实习生，免于两项考试。良好结业是指实习至少 2 年 10 个月，并通过 3 级技能测试，或经接收公司书面评价认定。

正在实习计划中途的人，原则上不能变更为特定技能；只有已完成计划的人，或有不得已情况并与出入国在留管理局协商过的人才可以。

最长能停留多久？

（i）的在留期间由个人单独指定，最长 3 年。在（i）的累计时间原则上不得达到 5 年；有合理理由需要超过 5 年的，最长 6 年。（ii）的累计停留没有上限。

5 年按累计停留计算：没有工作的时间和持再入国许可在国外的时间都计入。只有经批准的休假会被扣除，例如产假、育儿假，或连续超过 1 个月且原则上不超过 1 年的病假、伤假，该申请从 5 年期满前 3 个月起提交。

（ii）的在留期间为 3 年、2 年、1 年或 6 个月，续签次数不限。（ii）持有者的家属可作为家属同行，（i）持有者则不可。

可以换工作或升到（ii）吗？

在同一业务分类内，或在考试确认技能水平相通的分类之间，可以换工作。更换接收机构或指定领域需要取得变更在留资格许可，申请审理期间不得在新雇主处工作。

（i）之后不会自动升到（ii）：需要通过技能评价，但通过者不必先持有（i）就可取得（ii）。在（ii）的期间计入永住所需的就劳类资格年数，在（i）的期间则不计入。

无正当理由连续 3 个月以上不从事该活动而继续停留，资格可能被取消。劳动合同结束时，还须在 14 天内向出入国在留管理厅（ISA）报告。

费用、办理时间和 2027-04-01 的变化

在留资格认定证明书免费，自签发之日起 3 个月内有效。标准办理期间：认定证明书 1 至 3 个月，变更在留资格 1 至 2 个月，延长在留期间 2 周至 1 个月。

自 2026-10-01 起，变更在留资格和延长在留期间的手续费取决于获批的停留期间长短，窗口办理从 3 个月以下的 10,000 日元到 5 年以上的 75,000 日元不等。

修订后的法律自 2027-04-01 起施行。从那时起，（ii）的认定证明书申请需要 B1 以上的日语；（i）中的巴士、出租车驾驶和铁路站务人员需要 B1，取代原来的 JLPT N3。在日本国内提出的申请何时适用，尚未决定。

雇主必须做到什么？

工资必须不低于从事同样工作的日本人。不得要求劳动者或其家属缴纳保证金，或签订含违约金的合同。雇主及其高管在签约前 5 年内不得有违反出入境或劳动法规的不正当行为。

对于（i），雇主必须按包含 10 项内容的支援计划为劳动者提供支援，包括入境前指导、住房、入职说明和日语学习等，可全部或部分委托他人。（ii）没有支援义务。

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是什么

Specified Skilled Worker (i) is the status of residence for foreigners doing work in a designated industrial field that requires considerable knowledge or experience.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 6 · 2026-10-22 核对
Specified Skilled Worker (ii) is the status of residence for foreigners doing work in a designated industrial field that requires skilled (expert-level) ability.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 6 · 2026-10-22 核对
The two statuses were created to take in workers with some expertise and immediate usability, only in fields that still cannot secure staff after productivity and domestic-hiring efforts; implementation began in April 2019.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 6 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2019-04-01 起施行
Field-specific operating policies for both Specified Skilled Worker and the new Employment for Skill Development system were decided by Cabinet on 23 January 2026 and replaced the earlier field-specific policies.
特定技能制度に係る制度の運用に関する基本方針・分野別運用方針・運用要領 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-01-23 起施行
The five-year cap on SSW1 is measured as total stay: the count includes time in SSW1 status without working, time abroad on a re-entry permit, and any time in the 'Designated Activities' status used to prepare for a switch to SSW1; only limited periods (unavoidable inability to re-enter, maternity or childcare leave, sick or injury leave) are left out, and only when approved on application.
通算在留期間（特定技能制度） · 2026-10-22 核对
Time spent job-hunting after losing a job or on a temporary visit home still counts toward the five-year limit, according to the information accepting organisations must give workers who quit.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第7章第4節受入れ困難時の届出 · 2026-10-22 核对
'Satisfactorily completed Technical Intern Training (ii)' means finishing at least two years and ten months and either passing the grade-3 skill test (or the equivalent practical exam), or, without passing it, being recognised as satisfactorily completed through the host company's written evaluation.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第4章第1節（3）技能水準留意事項 · 2026-10-22 核对
Skill and Japanese levels required at the end of Employment for Skill Development are the same as those required for Specified Skilled Worker (i), so completers move on with matching standards.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 8 · 2026-10-22 核对

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The support plan consists of ten support items set by ministerial ordinance, including pre-departure guidance, airport transfers, housing, orientation, Japanese study, consultation, social exchange and job-change help.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 12 · 2026-10-22 核对
As of end of June 2026 there were 11,456 registered support organisations, and as of December 2025 there were 62,996 accepting organisations.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 23 · 2026-10-22 核对
At end of June 2026 there were 425,961 Specified Skilled Worker (i) residents and 18,295 Specified Skilled Worker (ii) residents, 444,256 in total (preliminary).
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slides 6, 23 · 2026-10-22 核对
The Immigration Control Act lets the Minister of Justice temporarily stop issuing certificates for a field once the responsible ministry asks, based on the field policy, when enough workers have been secured.
出入国管理及び難民認定法第7条の2第3項・第4項 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
Bilateral memoranda of cooperation aimed at keeping out malicious brokers have been signed with 17 countries.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 19 · 2026-10-22 核对
The MHLW nursing-care specified skills test (skills) is a computer-based test of 45 questions in 60 minutes (40 written, 5 practical-style), sat in the local language and held in principle every month; candidates must be 17 or older.
「介護特定技能評価試験(技能)」試験実施要領（厚生労働省） · 2026-10-22 核对
The nursing-care skills test result notice is valid for ten years from the test date, and the pass line is not a fixed percentage: MHLW sets it after adjusting for question difficulty on advice of care experts; the test is held in MOC countries where the JFT-Basic environment is ready, and in Japan.
「介護特定技能評価試験(技能)」試験実施要領（厚生労働省） · 2026-10-22 核对
A deposit means any money or property of the worker or relatives being held under any name, and a penalty contract means any contract fixing damages for breach or other unjust transfer of money, such as fees for resigning, consulting a labour office or going out without permission; the rule covers brokers at home and abroad and relatives or close contacts.
運用要領別冊１号特定技能外国人支援に関する運用要領（法務省）第2（1）【留意事項】 · 2026-10-22 核对
In the building cleaning field the Japanese evidence listed for SSW2 is JLPT N3 or above, accepted only where the result is judged to be at least CEFR B1 equivalent; the manual says B1 or above becomes the SSW2 requirement from 1 April 2027, with handling to be announced separately.
運用要領別冊特定の分野に係る特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（ビルクリーニング分野） · 2026-10-22 核对
ISA sets no cap on fees paid to overseas agencies; instead the worker must understand and agree to the amount and itemised breakdown paid to a foreign intermediary or for preparation abroad, and the employer is encouraged to bear all or part of sending costs such as pre-departure training and fares in line with the sending country’s rules.
運用要領別冊１号特定技能外国人支援に関する運用要領（法務省）第2（1） · 2026-10-22 核对
Aviation skills tests for both SSW1 and SSW2 are run under MLIT Civil Aviation Bureau implementation guidelines (ground handling: one guideline for both; aircraft maintenance: separate SSW1 and SSW2 guidelines), with test information published by the Japan Aeronautical Engineers' Association; the SSW2 tests need an extra form at application (a skills-progress sheet for ground handling, a pledge for aircraft maintenance).
特定技能制度（航空分野）（国土交通省航空局） · 2026-10-22 核对
Shipbuilding and marine industry SSW1 and SSW2 tests follow MLIT implementation guidelines (the SSW2 one last revised in August 2024), and the schedule and application information is posted by the Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK).
特定技能制度（造船・舶用工業分野）（国土交通省海事局） · 2026-10-22 核对
Forestry's Specified Skilled Worker skills test is the forestry skills measurement test (forestry specified skills evaluation test), run under the Forestry Agency's implementation guideline of October 2024; application method and schedule are on the page of the test operator, the Forestry Skills Improvement Center, and the page's all-fields Japanese test link points to the Japan Foundation basic-level test.
林業分野における外国人材の受入れ（特定技能・育成就労）（林野庁） · 2026-10-22 核对

谁符合

In industrial products manufacturing only three work categories - machine and metal processing, electrical and electronic equipment assembly, and metal surface treatment - can move to Specified Skilled Worker (ii).
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 6 · 2026-10-23 核对
Sick or injury leave is excluded from the five-year count only if it lasts more than one continuous month and is in principle one year or less (up to three years for work-related injuries), during which no Specified Skilled Worker (i) activity was possible.
通算在留期間（特定技能制度） · 2026-10-23 核对
Maternity and childcare leave are excluded from the five-year count; maternity leave is six weeks before birth (14 for multiples) and eight weeks after, and childcare leave runs until the child is one year old (extendable).
通算在留期間（特定技能制度） · 2026-10-23 核对
A worker who failed a Specified Skilled Worker (ii) evaluation exam can stay for a total of six years if they scored at least 80% of the pass mark on every required exam, promise to keep studying and to leave if they fail again, and the employer will keep them and support exam preparation.
通算在留期間（特定技能制度） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2025-09-30 起施行
A person who stayed abroad on a re-entry permit but could not return because of unavoidable circumstances can have that period excluded; the manual says to apply around three months before the five-year limit.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第4章第1節（6）通算在留期間 · 2026-10-23 核对
For Specified Skilled Worker (i), the Japanese-language standard is a level that allows some everyday conversation without difficulty plus the Japanese needed for the specific job, proven by an exam or another evaluation method set for each field.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第4章第1節（4）日本語能力 · 2026-10-22 核对
An ISA notice says a JFT-Basic pass at A2.2 or A1 satisfies the Japanese requirement of applications for Specified Skilled Worker (i) or Employment for Skill Development in place of JLPT N4 or N5, and the test is normally held several times a month at 11 places in Japan.
JLPT（N4・N5）受験申込みを検討中の方へ JFT-Basicの活用をお勧めします · 2026-10-23 核对
The skill level for Specified Skilled Worker (i) is checked by a field-specific skill exam, and Technical Intern Training (ii) completers are exempt from the exam.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 6 · 2026-10-22 核对

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For Specified Skilled Worker (ii), the applicant must prove the skilled ability required for the work by an exam or other evaluation method set in each field's operating policy.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第4章第2節（3）技能水準 · 2026-10-22 核对
Specified Skilled Worker (ii) cannot be reached automatically after (i); it requires passing the skill evaluation, but a person who passes can obtain (ii) without first holding (i).
特定技能制度に関するよくある質問（Q&A） Q12 · 2026-10-22 核对
Nursing care requires an additional nursing-care Japanese evaluation test even for most technical-intern completers; only those who completed nursing-care technical training are exempt.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第4章第1節（4）日本語能力 · 2026-10-22 核对
No educational background is required for Specified Skilled Worker (i), according to the operating manual.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第4章第1節（1）年齢留意事項 · 2026-10-22 核对
The passport must be issued by a government that cooperates in enforcing deportation orders; Iran is the only government currently excluded under the notice.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第4章第1節（5）退去強制令書 · 2026-10-22 核对
A technical intern who finishes Technical Intern Training (ii) satisfactorily and whose skills relate to the new work is exempt from the skill and Japanese tests.
出入国管理及び難民認定法第七条第一項第二号の基準を定める省令（上陸基準省令）第1号ただし書 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-04-01 起施行
A person still in the middle of a technical internship plan generally cannot change to Specified Skilled Worker; only completers (or those with unavoidable circumstances, after consulting the immigration bureau) can.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第4章第3節（4）留意事項 · 2026-10-22 核对
Switching jobs is allowed within the same work category or between categories whose skill levels are confirmed as common by exams.
特定技能制度に関するよくある質問（Q&A） Q13 · 2026-10-22 核对
The employer and its officers must not have committed improper acts concerning immigration or labour laws within five years before signing the contract.
出入国管理及び難民認定法第2条の5第4項 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
Employers cannot charge foreign workers deposit, key-money, agency, renewal or early-cancellation fees for rented housing; the rent charged (management fees included) may not exceed the rent divided by the number of Specified Skilled Workers living there.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第4章第1節（8）費用負担 · 2026-10-22 核对
There is no headcount cap per employer for Specified Skilled Worker (i), except in nursing care and construction.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 9 · 2026-10-22 核对
Dispatch employment is allowed only in agriculture and fishery, and employee-on-loan transfers only in aviation and railways.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 8 · 2026-10-22 核对
Accepting organisations must join their field's council before filing residence applications.
特定技能制度に関するよくある質問（Q&A） Q14 · 2026-10-22 核对
Family members may accompany a Specified Skilled Worker (ii) as dependants, but not a Specified Skilled Worker (i).
特定技能制度に関するよくある質問（Q&A） Q9 · 2026-10-22 核对
As an exception, a spouse or child already in Japan in dependant status (for example of a student who becomes an SSW1) or a child born in Japan to two SSW1 holders may be allowed to switch to 'Designated Activities'.
特定技能制度に関するよくある質問（Q&A） Q9 · 2026-10-23 核对
Time as a Specified Skilled Worker (ii) counts toward the work-status years needed for permanent residence, but time as SSW1 or technical intern does not.
特定技能制度に関するよくある質問（Q&A） Q10 · 2026-10-23 核对
Specified Skilled Worker (ii) is not subject to the support obligation.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 12 · 2026-10-22 核对
If an accepting organisation outsources the entire support plan to a registered support organisation, it is deemed to meet the support-system requirement; the registered organisation cannot subcontract the work again.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 12 · 2026-10-22 核对
A Specified Skilled Worker (ii) must do work different from interns and SSW1 workers, such as instruction, management or independent expert work, and normally guide at least the number of people set for each field.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第3章第2節留意事項 · 2026-10-22 核对
The contract must set the foreign worker's scheduled working hours equal to those of regular employees of the employer.
特定技能雇用契約及び一号特定技能外国人支援計画の基準等を定める省令第1条第2号 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
The employer must not treat the worker differently because of nationality in pay, training or use of welfare facilities.
特定技能雇用契約及び一号特定技能外国人支援計画の基準等を定める省令第1条第4号 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
The 'Designated Activities' bridging status for moving to Specified Skilled Worker (i) is not available to people whose cumulative SSW1 stay already exceeds four years and six months.
特定技能関係の特定活動（「特定技能１号」への移行を希望する場合） · 2026-10-22 核对
Nursing care has one work category (personal care such as bathing, meal and toileting assistance). SSW1 applicants must pass the nursing-care specified skills evaluation test (skills) or an equivalent, show Japanese at level A2.2 or above of the Japanese-language reference framework, and pass the separate nursing-care Japanese evaluation test; employment must be direct.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙1 介護分野 · 2026-10-23 核对
Nursing care is not open to Specified Skilled Worker (ii): skilled care workers are expected to qualify as certified care workers and stay in the separate Nursing-care status instead.
運用要領別冊特定の分野に係る特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（介護分野） · 2026-10-22 核对
In nursing care, SSW1 workers may be assigned to home-visit services only if they completed the beginner care-worker training and, as a rule, have at least one year of experience at a care facility; exceptions below one year require Japanese around JLPT N2 and a long accompanied-visit period.
運用要領別冊特定の分野に係る特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（介護分野） · 2026-10-22 核对
Building cleaning has one work category (interior cleaning of buildings other than homes). SSW1 needs the building-cleaning SSW1 evaluation test; SSW2 needs the SSW2 test or Grade-1 skills certification plus at least two years as a site-managing supervisor of several cleaners; the employing business office must hold a prefectural building-cleaning registration.
運用要領別冊特定の分野に係る特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（ビルクリーニング分野） · 2026-10-22 核对
Linen supply (added January 2026) has one work category and only an SSW1 test; the accepting facility must be certified under an industry hygiene standard, and SSW2 is not available in this field.
運用要領別冊特定の分野に係る特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（リネンサプライ分野） · 2026-10-22 核对
Manufacturing SSW2 requires the manufacturing SSW2 evaluation test for the category (or the listed Grade-1 trade tests) together with Business Career Examination Grade 3 in production management, plus practical experience in a manufacturing workplace in Japan doing work that requires judging for oneself; Japanese must be B1 or above.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙4 工業製品製造業分野 · 2026-10-22 核对
Construction has three work categories (civil engineering, building, lifeline and equipment); SSW1 is proved by the construction SSW1 test for the category or Grade-3 trade tests, SSW2 by the SSW2 test or Grade-1 trade tests plus experience as a team leader directing other construction workers; the employer needs a Construction Business Act licence.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙5 建設分野 · 2026-10-23 核对
Construction employers must register themselves and each SSW1 worker in the Construction Career Up System (CCUS), obtain MLIT certification of a construction SSW1 acceptance plan with planned pay, safety and skills training, join the designated contractors body, pay at least the pay of Japanese workers of equal skill with raises, and have no construction-law supervisory sanction in the five years before applying.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙5 建設分野 · 2026-10-22 核对
Shipbuilding and marine industry has three work categories (shipbuilding, marine machinery, marine electrical and electronic equipment), each with its own SSW1 test or Grade-3 trade tests; SSW2 needs the matching SSW2 test or Grade-1 tests plus experience as a supervisor directing several workers.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙6 造船・舶用工業分野 · 2026-10-23 核对
Automobile maintenance has two work categories (vehicle maintenance, body repair); SSW1 uses the category SSW1 test or the Grade-3 mechanic certification, SSW2 uses the SSW2 test or Grade-2 mechanic certification plus experience at a certified garage (holders of the Grade-2 or body and electronic-control mechanic certificates are exempt from the experience requirement); the employer itself must be a certified garage under the Road Transport Vehicle Act.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙7 自動車整備分野 · 2026-10-23 核对
Aviation has two work categories (airport ground handling, aircraft maintenance), each with its own aviation SSW1 evaluation test; the SSW2 skill level is the aviation SSW2 test for each category, and for aircraft maintenance the table also lists aviation mechanic licences (first- or second-class aircraft or line maintenance mechanic, aircraft workshop mechanic).
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙8 航空分野 · 2026-10-23 核对
Accommodation has one work category (front desk, planning and publicity, guest service, restaurant service); SSW1 and SSW2 each need the accommodation evaluation test, SSW2 also needs experience supervising staff, and the employer must hold a hotel or inn licence under the Inns and Hotels Act and must not use workers at establishments covered by the entertainment-business law or for hostess-type service.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙9 宿泊分野 · 2026-10-22 核对
Road transport has three SSW1-only work categories (truck, taxi, bus driver); each needs the category SSW1 test plus a Japanese driving licence (first class for trucks, second class for taxi and bus), and taxi and bus drivers must also complete new-driver training; there is no SSW2.
運用要領別冊特定の分野に係る特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（自動車運送業分野） · 2026-10-23 核对
Road transport employers must run a road-transport or freight-forwarding business, hold a driver-workplace environment certification (or, for trucking, a safety-excellence rating), join the MLIT council, and, for taxi and bus, give the new-driver training themselves.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙10 自動車運送業分野 · 2026-10-22 核对
Railways has six SSW1-only work categories (track maintenance, electrical equipment maintenance, rolling-stock maintenance, rolling-stock manufacturing, station and transport staff, station and train cleaning), each with its own railway SSW1 test; Japanese is A2.2 except for station and transport staff, which needs B1.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙11 鉄道分野 · 2026-10-23 核对
Logistics warehouse (added January 2026, operation starting when ready) has one work category, in-warehouse receiving, storage and similar tasks; applicants need the warehouse SSW1 test and A2.2 Japanese, and the employer must be a registered warehouse operator, a contractor working in such an operator's warehouse, or a licensed freight carrier doing warehouse work, and must use a system covering receiving, inventory and shipping management.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙12 物流倉庫分野 · 2026-10-23 核对
Agriculture has two work categories (crop farming, livestock farming), each with an agriculture SSW1 test; SSW2 needs the matching SSW2 test and either foreman experience directing staff or other farm work experience; direct hire and worker dispatch are both allowed, and a direct-hire employer needs six months of experience employing workers (or equivalent).
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙13 農業分野 · 2026-10-23 核对
Fishery has two work categories (fishing, aquaculture), each with its own SSW1 and SSW2 test; SSW2 needs experience as a deputy to the operation leader or as a supervisor on a registered fishing vessel or at an aquaculture site; direct hire and dispatch (including seafarer dispatch through approved intermediaries) are allowed.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙14 漁業分野 · 2026-10-22 核对
Food and beverage manufacturing (alcohol excluded) has two work categories, food and beverage manufacturing and seafood processing, each with its own SSW1 and SSW2 test; SSW2 needs experience managing the process while directing several employees, and employers must give the worker a written career-plan image before the contract.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙15 飲食料品製造業分野 · 2026-10-23 核对
Food service has one work category (cooking, customer service and store management); SSW1 needs the food-service SSW1 test (or the medical/welfare facility meal-production specialist exam), SSW2 needs the SSW2 test and recent experience as a sub-manager directing part-timers at a licensed restaurant; employers may not use workers at businesses under the entertainment-business law (except licensed hotels and inns), at sex-related businesses, or for hostess-type service.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙16 外食業分野 · 2026-10-23 核对
Forestry has one work category (afforestation and timber production) and an SSW1 route through either the forestry specified skills evaluation test or the Grade-3 forestry skills test; there is no SSW2 in this field.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙17 林業分野 · 2026-10-22 核对
Wood industry has one work category (sawmilling, plywood and laminated timber processing) tested by the wood industry SSW1 evaluation test, with A2.2 Japanese; the field policy sets requirements for SSW1 only, with no Specified Skilled Worker (ii) route, and the worksite must carry on certain industries of the Japan Standard Industrial Classification.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙18 木材産業分野 · 2026-10-23 核对
Resource recycling (added January 2026, operation starting when ready) has one work category, intermediate treatment of waste, tested by the resource recycling SSW1 evaluation test with A2.2 Japanese; employers must fall under the listed waste-disposal business types and join the Minister of the Environment's council; no Specified Skilled Worker (ii) route exists.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙19 資源循環分野 · 2026-10-23 核对
A TITP No. 2 completer whose training occupation is not related to the intended SSW1 work (no counterpart in the mapping table) must pass the skills test of the new field, while the Japanese-language proof is still treated as satisfied by the completion itself.
特定技能制度に関するＱ＆Ａ（出入国在留管理庁） Q50 · 2026-10-23 核对
Because a TITP No. 3 completer has spent about five years in Japan (a No. 2 completer about three), the pay for a specified skilled worker coming from TITP must be set above the pay at TITP completion and be comparable with Japanese workers who have roughly five (or three) years of experience.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（出入国在留管理庁）第5章第1節第1（3）【留意事項】 · 2026-10-23 核对
The accepting organisation must not have dismissed workers who did the same kind of work as the foreign worker in the year before signing the employment contract, nor afterwards; exempt cases are retirement at the mandatory age, dismissal for the worker’s own serious fault, a fixed-term contract not renewed for justified reasons, and voluntary resignation.
特定技能雇用契約及び一号特定技能外国人支援計画の基準等を定める省令第2条第1項第2号 · 2026-10-22 核对
The employer must not have caused a foreign worker to go missing through its own fault, such as unpaid wages or a failure to carry out the support plan, in the year before the contract or at any time after it; a single case is enough to fail the standard, and missing technical interns are counted too.
特定技能雇用契約及び一号特定技能外国人支援計画の基準等を定める省令第2条第1項第3号 · 2026-10-22 核对
If the foreign worker cannot afford the trip home after the employment contract ends, the employer must pay the travel cost and arrange a smooth departure; the manual adds that the employer may not build up a return-fare fund by deducting from wages.
特定技能雇用契約及び一号特定技能外国人支援計画の基準等を定める省令第1条第2項第1号 · 2026-10-22 核对
When a foreign worker wants to go home temporarily, the employment contract must provide the necessary paid leave, and the manual treats refusing or penalising such leave as a possible breach of the standard unless the business truly cannot spare the worker.
特定技能雇用契約及び一号特定技能外国人支援計画の基準等を定める省令第1条第1項第5号 · 2026-10-22 核对
The organisation must obey labour, social insurance and tax laws, which in practice means paying labour insurance, health and pension insurance (or national health insurance and pension for sole proprietors) and national and local taxes; arrears can be cured by paying on ISA guidance, and arrears of resident tax withheld from the worker do not count as compliance.
特定技能雇用契約及び一号特定技能外国人支援計画の基準等を定める省令第2条第1項第1号 · 2026-10-22 核对
Transport support covers picking the worker up at the airport or port on arrival and taking them to the workplace or home, and on departure going all the way to the security checkpoint and confirming the worker enters; the actual cost of this transport is an employer cost, and temporary home visits are not covered.
運用要領別冊１号特定技能外国人支援に関する運用要領（法務省）第2（2） · 2026-10-22 核对
An organisation may run the support itself only if it has either handled mid- to long-term residents in work-type statuses properly in the past two years or has staff with two years of life-counselling experience, and names a support manager and a support officer per workplace who are neutral (not the worker’s supervisor) and have no disqualifying record; the officer must be able to use a language the worker understands.
特定技能雇用契約及び一号特定技能外国人支援計画の基準等を定める省令第2条第2項第1号 · 2026-10-22 核对
The spouse and children of a Specified Skilled Worker (ii) can stay under the Dependant status, which is granted for a period of up to five years; the status list on the ISA page does not include Specified Skilled Worker (i), so family of Specified Skilled Worker (i) holders cannot use it.
在留資格「家族滞在」（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-23 核对
Domestic skills and Japanese tests can be taken by foreigners who hold a residence status in Japan, including short-term visitors, but not by overstayers or by nationals of countries that do not cooperate in executing deportation orders; passing a test does not guarantee the status or a visa, and people may sit tests in a neighbouring country if their own country has none.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（出入国在留管理庁）第4章第1節（3）・（4） · 2026-10-22 核对
In nursing care, graduates of certified care-worker training schools are exempt from the skills test, the Japanese test and the nursing-care Japanese test, as are EPA care-worker candidates who completed at least 3 years 10 months of the 4-year programme and scored at least half the pass mark on the latest national exam in every subject group.
運用要領別冊特定の分野に係る特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（介護分野） · 2026-10-22 核对
An ISA notice says that applicants for Specified Skilled Worker (i) or Employment for Skill Development who were planning to sit JLPT N4 or N5 can meet the Japanese-language requirement with a JFT-Basic pass at A2.2 or A1 instead.
JLPT（N4・N5）の受験申込みを考えている方、受入れ機関の皆様へ（JFT-Basicの活用） · 2026-10-23 核对

数值与标准

The total time spent in Specified Skilled Worker (i) status must in principle not reach five years, or six years where there is a reasonable ground to stay beyond five.
出入国管理及び難民認定法第七条第一項第二号の基準を定める省令（上陸基準省令）第1号第1号ヘ · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-04-01 起施行
The general Japanese level for Specified Skilled Worker (i) is A2.2 or above on the Japanese-language reference framework, confirmed by exam; completers of Technical Intern Training (ii) are exempt, and nursing care, bus/taxi driving and railway station staff have separate requirements.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 6 · 2026-10-22 核对
The applicant must be at least 18 years old; those under 18 may apply for the certificate of eligibility but must be 18 on landing.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第4章第1節（1）年齢 · 2026-10-22 核对
The pay for a Specified Skilled Worker must be equal to or higher than what a Japanese person doing the same work would be paid.
特定技能雇用契約及び一号特定技能外国人支援計画の基準等を定める省令第1条第3号 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
Support staff must meet with the foreign worker and his or her supervisor at least once every three months.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第5章第2節第2（6）面談 · 2026-10-22 核对
The Cabinet set the overall acceptance forecast (planned intake figure) for Specified Skilled Worker (i) at 805,700 people for the period through the end of March 2029.
特定技能１号の分野ごとの受入れ見込数や在留者数等（令和８年７月末時点・速報値） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-01-23 起施行
The per-field acceptance caps include 126,900 for nursing care, 199,500 for industrial products manufacturing, 133,500 for food and beverage manufacturing and 50,000 for food service.
特定技能１号の分野ごとの受入れ見込数や在留者数等（令和８年７月末時点・速報値） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-01-23 起施行
A renewal application is treated as having no reasonable ground when the applicant's cumulative Specified Skilled Worker (i) stay has already reached five years (or six years where justified).
出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則第21条の2 · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行

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In nursing care the number of SSW1 workers at a workplace cannot exceed the number of full-time care staff who are Japanese or equivalent (care-worker EPA graduates, Nursing-care status holders, permanent residents and similar); technical interns, EPA candidates and students are not counted.
運用要領別冊特定の分野に係る特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（介護分野） · 2026-10-22 核对
For construction SSW2 the required leader experience is counted through the Construction Career Up System: working days as foreman plus team leader at the level-3 standard of the trade, or at least three years (645 working days) where no standard exists; a level-3 CCUS competence result notice can replace the evidence form.
運用要領別冊特定の分野に係る特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（建設分野） · 2026-10-23 核对
In construction the total number of SSW1 workers cannot exceed the employer’s number of full-time regular staff, counting neither SSW1 workers nor technical interns; and the pay must be a monthly salary system so that it does not vary with the construction season.
運用要領別冊特定の分野に係る特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（建設分野） · 2026-10-22 核对
In road transport the Japanese standard is A2.2 for truck drivers but B1 for taxi and bus drivers (JLPT N3 counts only if judged as CEFR B1 or above); A2.2 is accepted for taxi and bus only if the work is not chartered bus driving, a learning plan towards B1 is made and a Japanese supporter rides along (single crewing is allowed on island or peninsula bus routes with municipal consent).
運用要領別冊特定の分野に係る特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（自動車運送業分野） · 2026-10-23 核对
The foreign worker’s scheduled hours must equal those of the organisation’s regular full-time employees, where full time means in principle five or more working days a week, at least 217 days a year and at least 30 hours a week; part-timers and casual workers are not the comparison group.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（出入国在留管理庁）第5章第1節第1（2） · 2026-10-22 核对
Pre-contract guidance, given in person or by video call in a language the worker understands (mail or e-mail alone is not enough), needs about three hours in practice, and a session under one hour is not considered properly done even when a technical intern stays with the same employer.
運用要領別冊１号特定技能外国人支援に関する運用要領（法務省）第2（1） · 2026-10-22 核对
The life orientation after arrival or after a status change should take at least eight hours so the worker really understands daily life, procedures, consultation contacts, medical care, disaster and crime prevention and legal protection; a shorter session is acceptable only for people whose living environment has not changed.
運用要領別冊１号特定技能外国人支援に関する運用要領（法務省）第2（4） · 2026-10-22 核对
Permanent residence in general needs ten years of continuous stay including at least five years in a work or resident status, but technical intern and SSW1 time do not count as work status and SSW1 lasts five years at most, so PR from SSW1 is hard; time in SSW2 does count, so PR becomes possible from SSW2.
特定技能制度に関するＱ＆Ａ（出入国在留管理庁） Q10 · 2026-10-22 核对
The second-class driving licence needed for taxi and bus work requires the applicant to be 21 or older with three or more years of qualifying licence holding (overseas driving history counts), and converting a foreign licence needs proof of at least three months’ stay in the issuing country after obtaining it.
運用要領別冊特定の分野に係る特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（自動車運送業分野） · 2026-10-22 核对
At the end of July 2026 only food service was close to its SSW1 cap (98.6% of 50,000); the next highest fill rates were food and beverage manufacturing at 76.3%, construction 68.9%, nursing care 64.2%, agriculture 61.3%, aviation 57.6% and automobile maintenance 56.7%, with the overall total at 53.6% of 805,700.
特定技能１号の受入れ見込数及び在留者数について（令和８年７月末時点・速報値） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-07-31 起施行

期间

Under the Immigration Control Act enforcement regulation, a Specified Skilled Worker (i) is granted a period of stay designated individually by the Minister of Justice within a maximum of three years.
出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則別表第二特定技能の項第一号 · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
A Specified Skilled Worker (ii) is granted a stay period of three years, two years, one year or six months, and renewals are unlimited in number.
出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則別表第二特定技能の項第二号 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
There is no cap on the cumulative stay in Specified Skilled Worker (ii), whereas for (i) the cumulative stay must in principle be within five years.
通算在留期間（特定技能制度） · 2026-10-22 核对
A registered support organisation's registration is valid for five years and must be renewed.
出入国管理及び難民認定法第19条の23第2項 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
A worker who cannot gather documents in time can get a 6-month 'Designated Activities' status that allows work at the future employer; it can be renewed once only for unavoidable reasons and counts toward the five-year limit.
特定技能関係の特定活動（「特定技能１号」への移行を希望する場合） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2024-01-09 起施行
Workers who lost their job for unavoidable reasons can get a one-year 'Designated Activities' (work-support) status until they pass the tests, renewable up to twice in certain cases.
やむを得ない事情により活動継続が困難な場合（「特定活動」（就労継続支援）） · 2026-10-22 核对
For Specified Skilled Worker (i), ISA gives no fixed list of stay lengths: the Minister of Justice designates a period for each person individually, up to three years (Specified Skilled Worker (ii), by contrast, has the fixed set of three years, two years, one year or six months).
在留資格「特定技能」（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-23 核对
Because Specified Skilled Worker (i) stay is in principle limited to five years in total, the period actually granted depends on the applicant's cumulative stay, so the period requested may not be granted.
在留資格「特定技能」（出入国在留管理庁） (注2) · 2026-10-23 核对

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Monitoring items for the memoranda: Nepal and Myanmar renewed for five years from 1 April 2024, while Indonesia’s memorandum was renewed for only six months from 25 June 2026, so its next expiry or renewal falls around late December 2026.
特定技能に関する二国間の協力覚書（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-06-25 起施行
Road transport applicants who still need a Japanese licence or taxi/bus new-driver training can enter and stay under Designated Activities, for up to 6 months for trucks and 1 year for taxis and buses, and this period is not counted in the cumulative stay of Specified Skilled Worker (i).
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙10 自動車運送業分野 · 2026-10-23 核对

期限

A worker who stays without doing the Specified Skilled Worker activity for three months or more without good reason can have the status revoked.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第7章第4節 · 2026-10-22 核对
The worker must also report the end of an employment contract to ISA within 14 days.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第7章第4節 · 2026-10-22 核对
Employers file the annual notification on acceptance, activities and support by 31 May each year, covering the period from 1 April of the previous year to 31 March of the filing year.
出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則第19条の18第3項 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
Renewal applications are to be filed from the first day of the month six months before expiry through the end of the month four months before expiry.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第9章第1節第2（1） · 2026-10-22 核对
Once the cumulative SSW1 stay reaches five years, further stay is in principle refused whatever time remains on the employment contract or the residence card, so the date the five-year count ends overrides both.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（出入国在留管理庁）第4章第1節（6） · 2026-10-22 核对
An extension of stay can be filed up to the expiry date, and from three months before expiry when the current stay is six months or longer; earlier filing is accepted only in truly exceptional circumstances after consulting the immigration office.
在留期間更新許可申請（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-22 核对
The accepting organisation must file a notification within 14 days of the date when a trigger occurs, namely a material change to the employment contract, its termination, signing of a new contract, a material change to the support plan, conclusion, change or end of a support-entrustment contract, or a situation making acceptance difficult or a standard no longer met.
出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則第19条の17第2項・第6項 · 2026-10-22 核对
The worker personally must also notify ISA within 14 days when the employment contract ends and when a new contract is signed after changing jobs, through the electronic notification system, in person or by registered-type post, and no supporting documents are needed for the online route.
所属（契約）機関に関する届出（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-22 核对

费用

Registering as a support organisation costs 28,400 yen and renewal costs 11,100 yen.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第9章第1節（2）申請手数料 · 2026-10-23 核对
Applying for a certificate of eligibility is free of charge.
特定技能制度に関するよくある質問（Q&A） Q23 · 2026-10-22 核对
Before 1 October 2026 the fee was 6,000 yen by revenue stamp for counter applications and 5,500 yen for online applications; applications received by 30 September 2026 still pay the old amount.
特定技能制度に関するよくある質問（Q&A） Q23 · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-09-30 起施行
From 1 October 2026 the fee for a status change or extension granting a stay of up to three months is 10,000 yen at the counter and 10,000 yen online.
令和８年１０月１日付け在留許可手数料の額の改定等について（英語ポスター） · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
From 1 October 2026 the fee for a status change or extension granting a stay of more than three but not more than six months is 18,000 yen at the counter and 15,000 yen online.
令和８年１０月１日付け在留許可手数料の額の改定等について（英語ポスター） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
From 1 October 2026 the fee for a status change or extension granting a stay of more than six months but less than one year is 25,000 yen at the counter and 21,000 yen online.
令和８年１０月１日付け在留許可手数料の額の改定等について（英語ポスター） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
From 1 October 2026 the fee for a status change or extension granting a one-year stay is 33,000 yen at the counter and 27,000 yen online.
令和８年１０月１日付け在留許可手数料の額の改定等について（英語ポスター） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
From 1 October 2026 the fee for a status change or extension granting a stay of more than one year but less than three years is 48,000 yen at the counter and 42,000 yen online.
令和８年１０月１日付け在留許可手数料の額の改定等について（英語ポスター） · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行

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From 1 October 2026 the fee for a status change or extension granting a stay of three years or more but less than five years is 64,000 yen at the counter and 56,000 yen online.
令和８年１０月１日付け在留許可手数料の額の改定等について（英語ポスター） · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
The fee can be reduced to as little as 10,000 yen for a person granted more than three months who is both in hardship close to that of people needing public assistance and in need of humanitarian consideration.
令和８年１０月１日付け在留許可手数料の額の改定等に関するQ&A · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
A re-entry permit costs 4,000 yen for a single trip and 7,000 yen for multiple trips at the counter (3,500 and 6,500 yen when applied online); these amounts date from 1 April 2025 and the page shows no change on 1 October 2026.
再入国許可申請（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2025-04-01 起施行
The permanent-residence permission fee rises from 10,000 yen to 200,000 yen from 1 October 2026, applies to applications received from that date, and online payers also pay a separate transaction fee on top of the stated amount.
在留許可手数料の改定ポスター（日本語版）（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
The reduced-fee scheme from 1 October 2026 lowers the actual payment to 10,000 yen for a status change or extension granting more than three months, and to 20,000 yen for permanent residence, for people living at about welfare-recipient level who also merit humanitarian consideration; permanent-residence reduction is limited to spouses and children of Japanese, permanent residents and special permanent residents.
令和８年１０月１日付け在留許可手数料の額の改定等に関するＱ＆Ａ · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
The period-based fee table from 1 October 2026 applies to status changes and extensions in general, with no status-specific rate, so a dependant of a Specified Skilled Worker (ii) pays the same fee for the length of stay granted; applications received up to 30 September 2026 keep the old fee even if approved later.
令和８年１０月１日付け在留許可手数料の額の改定等について · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
No official price list exists for registered support organisations: the entrustment fee varies with the number of workers, offices and locations, so the employer should get several quotes, the organisation must show the fee and its breakdown in the contract, and none of it may be charged to the worker.
運用要領別冊１号特定技能外国人支援に関する運用要領（法務省）第1 · 2026-10-22 核对

流程

To have leave periods or a failed Specified Skilled Worker (ii) exam excluded or extended, the worker must file the relevant application with supporting documents from three months before the five-year period ends until it ends.
通算在留期間（特定技能制度） · 2026-10-22 核对
A new entrant needs a medical check by a doctor within three months before applying; someone already in Japan switching status can use a check from a Japanese medical institution within one year before the application.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第4章第1節（2）健康状態 · 2026-10-23 核对
Interns who want to switch are asked to file the change-of-status application at least two months before the planned start of work, because interns cannot work after their plan ends even while the application is pending.
技能実習生が「特定技能」に在留資格変更許可申請を行った後、稼働ができなくなるケースが発生しています！ · 2026-10-22 核对
A Specified Skilled Worker who changes the accepting organisation or the designated field must obtain permission to change status of residence under the Immigration Control Act.
出入国管理及び難民認定法第20条第1項 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
While a change-of-status application is pending, working at the new employer is not permitted.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第3章第1節留意事項 · 2026-10-22 核对
When first accepting a Specified Skilled Worker, the employer submits a 'cooperation confirmation' to the municipality of the work site and housing after signing the contract and before applying for a certificate or change of status.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 14 · 2026-10-22 核对
An accepting organisation must support a Specified Skilled Worker (i) according to a support plan, which can be fully or partly outsourced.
出入国管理及び難民認定法第19条の22第1項・第2項 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
A certificate of eligibility is valid for three months from issue.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第4章第1節（1）年齢留意事項 · 2026-10-22 核对

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Standard processing times are one to three months for a certificate of eligibility, one to two months for a change of status and two weeks to one month for an extension.
特定技能制度に関するよくある質問（Q&A） Q24 · 2026-10-22 核对
Postal applications are not accepted: change and extension applications must normally be filed in person at the immigration office or online.
特定技能制度に関するよくある質問（Q&A） Q22 · 2026-10-22 核对
A certificate-of-eligibility application is filed by a staff member of the employer as agent, whereas change-of-status and extension applications are filed in person by the worker or an authorised agent (or online).
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第2章第3節 · 2026-10-22 核对
A job offer may be made before the exams are passed and the exams may be taken after signing the contract, but permission is granted only once all required exams are passed.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（令和8年10月、2026-10-19改正）第2章第3節 · 2026-10-22 核对
A TITP No. 2 completer who did not pass the Grade-3 trade test or the equivalent technical-intern specialist-level practical test can still count as satisfactory if the former host company certifies in writing attendance, skill acquisition and conduct (Form 1-2 evaluation record); an unreachable former host needs a statement of reasons and alternative evidence assessed case by case.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（出入国在留管理庁）第4章第1節（3） · 2026-10-22 核对
If the SSW1 employer is the same company that hosted the technical intern, and it received no improvement order under the Technical Intern Training Act in the past year, the Grade-3 certificate and evaluation record can be left out of the application.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（出入国在留管理庁）第4章第1節（3）【留意事項】 · 2026-10-23 核对
The medical check uses the health check form (Form 1-3 with the examinee’s declaration annex): a new entrant needs a doctor’s diagnosis within three months of applying, a person in Japan switching status may use a diagnosis from a Japanese medical institution within one year, and an abnormal chest X-ray requires a sputum test to rule out active tuberculosis.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（出入国在留管理庁）第4章第1節（2） · 2026-10-22 核对
Pay must be made by transfer to a bank account the worker designates, or by another method that lets the amount actually received be verified; any other method needs objective proof of payment submitted to ISA, in practice with the annual notification.
特定技能雇用契約及び一号特定技能外国人支援計画の基準等を定める省令第2条第1項第12号 · 2026-10-22 核对
The organisation must keep records of the foreign worker’s activities, including a roster, the work place and duties, employment status, insurance coverage, costs of acceptance and support, leave and any administrative guidance, at the workplace, and the support records must be kept for at least one year after the employment contract ends.
特定技能雇用契約及び一号特定技能外国人支援計画の基準等を定める省令第2条 · 2026-10-22 核对
Entrusting the whole support plan to a registered support organisation is optional but then the employer is treated as meeting the support-implementation standard, a single employer cannot split full entrustment among several organisations, and the organisation entrusted cannot sub-contract the support; interpreters may only assist.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（出入国在留管理庁）第6章第4節 · 2026-10-22 核对
Moving to a new accepting organisation, or to a different field, requires permission to change status of residence, not just a notification; working for the new employer is not allowed until the new residence card is received, while a change of work category inside the same field and employer is handled by a contract-change notification with the new skills test certificate.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（出入国在留管理庁）第5章第1節第1（1）／第3章 · 2026-10-22 核对
When a worker changes jobs and moves to Specified Skilled Worker (i) status with a different accepting organisation, the new organisation must carry out the pre-contract guidance again.
運用要領別冊１号特定技能外国人支援に関する運用要領（法務省）第2（1）【留意事項】 · 2026-10-23 核对
When a worker’s employer cannot continue to accept them (dismissal notice for business reasons, company dissolution, standard breach, missing worker, a month without starting or doing work, or leaving Japan without re-entry permit), the employer must report within 14 days and, if the worker wants to continue, help with job search through public employment offices or private agencies, telling them that a change of status is needed.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（出入国在留管理庁）第7章第4節 · 2026-10-22 核对
For a dependant application the family must show the relationship (family register, marriage or birth certificate or equivalent) and the supporter’s occupation and income through an employment certificate with resident-tax and tax-payment certificates, or savings proof if not employed; ISA publishes no fixed income threshold for the dependant’s maintenance.
在留資格「家族滞在」（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-22 核对
Candidates book the nursing-care skills test on the dedicated website designated by MHLW, see the result on screen at the end of the test and can download a result notice with photo, score and pass status within about five business days.
「介護特定技能評価試験(技能)」試験実施要領（厚生労働省） · 2026-10-22 核对
Some partner countries require their own document with the Japanese application: Cambodia a registration certificate (from 5 August 2019), Thailand an employment contract certified by the Thai embassy's labour attache office for Thai nationals in Japan who completed TITP No. 2 or 3 and apply to switch to SSW1 (from 27 July 2020), and Vietnam an approved recommendation list (from 15 February 2021).
特定技能に関する二国間の協力覚書（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-23 核对
In Vietnam the employer must sign a labour-supply contract with an accredited sending organisation and obtain approval of the recommendation list (form 1 from DOLAB for new entrants, form 2 from the Vietnamese embassy in Japan for status changes); since 27 June 2024 people already in Japan need the list only if they are TITP No. 2 or 3 completers or students with at least two years of study.
特定技能に関する二国間の協力覚書（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2024-06-27 起施行
The Philippine side requires the employer to register with the Migrant Workers Office in Tokyo or Osaka and the Department of Migrant Workers, and the worker to obtain an Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC) to leave the Philippines; the former POEA has merged into the DMW, and ISA lists no fee amounts for these steps.
特定技能に関する二国間の協力覚書（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-22 核对
Indonesia: employers are urged to register on the national job-matching system IPKOL, a worker with a certificate must register on SISKOP2MI before applying for the visa and receives an E-PMI migrant worker card after pre-departure orientation, registration is free, and using a licensed P3MI agency is optional.
特定技能に関する二国間の協力覚書（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-22 核对
Other partner-country steps listed by ISA include Nepal’s overseas labour permit and Myanmar’s Overseas Worker Identification Card for workers, a bilateral recruitment contract with GOLWS for Mongolia, employer demand-letter attestation and an emigration clearance card for Bangladesh, embassy approval and protector-of-emigrants registration for Pakistan, mandatory accredited agencies for Laos, and optional accredited agencies for Kyrgyzstan, Thailand and Bangladesh.
特定技能に関する二国間の協力覚書（出入国在留管理庁）各国における手続 · 2026-10-22 核对
In nursing care every certificate-of-eligibility or status application since 15 June 2024 must include a certificate of membership of the nursing-care specified skilled worker council, even when the employer is accepting a first SSW1 worker; if the SSW1 worker's workplace changes later, a notification of change to the employment contract is required with the workplace summary form attached.
運用要領別冊特定の分野に係る特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（介護分野） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2024-06-15 起施行

处罚

Neither the worker nor his or her family may be made to pay a deposit or sign a contract with a penalty for breach of the employment contract.
出入国管理及び難民認定法第七条第一項第二号の基準を定める省令（上陸基準省令）第1号二 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-04-01 起施行
Failing to file or filing false notifications is subject to penalties for accepting organisations; ISA can also order improvements.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 16 · 2026-10-22 核对
The Commissioner of ISA can order an accepting organisation to take corrective measures within a set time when the required standards are not being kept.
出入国管理及び難民認定法第19条の21 · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
The organisation must bear all mandatory support costs itself and must not pass them on to the foreign worker directly or indirectly, including the fee for an entrusted support organisation, interpreter costs and airport transport; only actual costs such as housing rent may be charged to the worker within what is necessary.
特定技能雇用契約及び一号特定技能外国人支援計画の基準等を定める省令第2条第1項第8号 · 2026-10-22 核对
Signing an employment contract and accepting a worker while aware that the worker or relatives have been charged a deposit, had their assets managed or been put under a penalty-for-breach contract counts as an improper act, which bars the organisation from accepting workers for five years; the employer must check this carefully at contract signing.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（出入国在留管理庁）第5章第2節第1（10） · 2026-10-23 核对
If a registered support organisation that is carrying out entrusted support has its registration cancelled, the foreign worker may lose the eligibility of the status, and the cancelled organisation cannot be registered again for five years from the cancellation date.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（出入国在留管理庁）第9章第3節第1 · 2026-10-22 核对

清单与表格

Specified Skilled Worker (i) currently covers 19 designated fields: nursing care, building cleaning, linen supply, industrial products manufacturing, construction, shipbuilding and marine industry, automobile maintenance, aviation, accommodation, road transport, railways, logistics warehouses, agriculture, fishery, food and beverage manufacturing, food service, forestry, wood industry and resource recycling.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 6 · 2026-10-22 核对
Specified Skilled Worker (ii) is limited to 11 fields: building cleaning, industrial products manufacturing, construction, shipbuilding and marine industry, automobile maintenance, aviation, accommodation, agriculture, fishery, food and beverage manufacturing and food service; nursing care is excluded (it has its own 'Nursing care' status).
出入国管理及び難民認定法別表第一の二の表の特定技能の項の下欄に規定する産業上の分野等を定める省令本文 · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-04-01 起施行
For Specified Skilled Worker (i), the Japanese-language test is either the Japan Foundation Test for Basic Japanese (JFT-Basic) or the JLPT at N4 or above.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 11 · 2026-10-23 核对
By nationality, Vietnam (176,915), Indonesia (108,367), Myanmar (53,441), the Philippines (38,630), China (23,524), Nepal (15,646), Cambodia (9,816) and Thailand (7,116) lead among residents at end of June 2026.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 23 · 2026-10-22 核对
Industrial products manufacturing has 17 SSW1 work categories, each with its own manufacturing SSW1 evaluation test (machine and metal processing, electrical and electronic equipment assembly, metal surface treatment, paper and corrugated box, concrete products, RPF, ceramics, printing and bookbinding, textiles, sewing, wire and cable, prefab housing parts, furniture, refractories, ready-mixed concrete, rubber, bags); employers must belong to the sector body for accepting foreign workers.
分野別運用方針（令和8年1月23日閣議決定）別紙4 工業製品製造業分野 · 2026-10-23 核对
The eight fields without SSW2 are nursing care, road transport, railways, forestry, wood industry, linen supply, logistics warehouse and resource recycling; the other eleven accept SSW2 (industrial products manufacturing only in its machinery-metal, electrical-electronic assembly and metal surface treatment categories), and a worker can reach SSW2 directly by passing the SSW2 tests without first holding SSW1.
特定技能制度に関するＱ＆Ａ（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-22 核对
As of 1 June 2026 ISA maps the TITP No. 2 transfer occupations to SSW1 fields and work categories in a five-page table: agriculture and forestry 3 occupations, fishery 2, construction 22, food 11, textile and clothing 14, machinery and metal 17, others 22 (91 occupations in total), plus two in-house-test occupations.
技能実習２号移行対象職種と特定技能１号における分野（業務区分）との関係について（令和８年６月１日時点） · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-06-01 起施行
In the TITP-to-SSW1 table one training occupation often maps to several SSW1 categories (for example machining maps to machine and metal processing, electrical and electronic assembly, prefabricated housing and ship machinery), and food-related training maps to food and beverage manufacturing and seafood processing, while institutional meal production maps to food service.
技能実習２号移行対象職種と特定技能１号における分野（業務区分）との関係について（令和８年６月１日時点） · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-06-01 起施行

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ISA publishes a document checklist for each SSW application (certificate of eligibility, change of status, extension), made of Table 1 for the applicant, Table 2 for the accepting organisation and Table 3 for field-specific documents (18 field sheets for SSW1, 11 for SSW2); an extension needs only Table 1 and Table 3.
在留資格「特定技能」（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-22 核对
The accepting-organisation documents are split into Table 2-1 (organisations that may omit parts: listed companies, mutual insurers, innovation firms, firms with high withholding tax, or three years of acceptance record without insolvency), Table 2-2 for corporations and Table 2-3 for sole proprietors, and an organisation that has already accepted an SSW worker in the same fiscal year need not resubmit them.
在留資格「特定技能」（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-22 核对
Core reference forms in an SSW1 application include the employment contract (Form 1-5), the conditions statement (1-6), the pay explanation (1-4), the medical check form (1-3), the employment-process statement (1-16), the organisation summary (1-11-1), the support plan (1-17) and, for entrusted support, the support-entrustment explanation (1-25); the contract and conditions forms must be drafted in a language the worker fully understands and signed with that understanding.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（出入国在留管理庁）第5章 · 2026-10-22 核对
Compliance proof for the accepting organisation covers labour insurance (premium-paid certificate), 24 months of health and pension insurance receipts or a payment-status reply, and national and local tax payment certificates (corporate: withholding tax, corporate tax, consumption tax, corporate inhabitant tax); sole proprietors submit the personal-business equivalents.
特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（出入国在留管理庁）第5章第2節第1（1） · 2026-10-22 核对
The ministerial ordinance lists ten mandatory support items: pre-contract guidance, transport on entry and exit, housing guarantor and daily-life contract help (bank account, mobile phone), post-arrival orientation, accompaniment to public procedures, Japanese-learning opportunities, consultation and complaints handling, exchange with Japanese people, job-change help if dismissed through no fault of the worker, and regular interviews with reporting of law violations.
特定技能雇用契約及び一号特定技能外国人支援計画の基準等を定める省令第3条第1項第1号イ〜ヌ · 2026-10-22 核对
ISA lists memoranda of cooperation on SSW with 17 countries: the Philippines, Cambodia, Nepal, Myanmar, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Thailand, India, Malaysia, Laos, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan; people from other countries can still be accepted.
特定技能に関する二国間の協力覚書（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-22 核对

近期变更

Road transport, railways, forestry and wood industry were added as fields in March 2024, and linen supply, logistics warehouse and resource recycling were added in January 2026.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 6 · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-01-23 起施行
The logistics warehouse and resource recycling fields have been added but will start operating only once preparations are ready, and neither had any residents at the end of June 2026.
制度説明資料「外国人労働者に関する制度概要」（出入国在留管理庁） slide 6 · 2026-10-22 核对
On 5 October 2026 ISA urged people to use JFT-Basic because the December 2026 JLPT filled up for every level N1 to N5 before the application window closed.
JLPT（N4・N5）受験申込みを検討中の方へ JFT-Basicの活用をお勧めします · 2026-10-22 核对
From 1 April 2027, certificate-of-eligibility applications for Specified Skilled Worker (ii) will require Japanese at B1 or above; the timing for change-of-status and renewal applications is still under study.
日本語能力水準「Ｂ１相当以上」の確認開始時期について · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2027-04-01 起施行
From 1 April 2027, certificate applications for bus and taxi driving and railway station staff in Specified Skilled Worker (i) require Japanese at B1 or above instead of JLPT N3; timing for in-country applications is undecided.
日本語能力水準「Ｂ１相当以上」の確認開始時期について · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2027-04-01 起施行
From 1 April 2027, people who completed technical intern training before 1 November 2017 or the old 'Designated Activities (technical training)' status that existed before 1 July 2010 will have to pass both the skill and Japanese tests to move to Specified Skilled Worker (i), with no exemption.
技能実習法施行以前の「技能実習」等を修了した者が「特定技能１号」に移行しようとする場合の取扱いについて · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2027-04-01 起施行
The amended Immigration Control Act and Technical Intern Training Act (Act No. 60 of 2024), which sets up the Employment for Skill Development system, takes effect on 1 April 2027.
技能実習法施行以前の「技能実習」等を修了した者が「特定技能１号」に移行しようとする場合の取扱いについて · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2027-04-01 起施行
From 1 April 2027, a support officer and a support staff member (may be the same person) must be appointed from full-time staff at each workplace (for registered organisations, each office) and only they may do support work.
１号特定技能外国人への支援体制に係る要件の改正について（令和９年４月１日施行） · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2027-04-01 起施行

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From 1 April 2027, a registered support organisation needs more support staff than its number of contracted accepting organisations divided by 10 and more than its number of supported SSW1 workers divided by 50.
１号特定技能外国人への支援体制に係る要件の改正について（令和９年４月１日施行） · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2027-04-01 起施行
From 1 April 2027 the person responsible for the support plan must complete the training course every three years, but the obligation is suspended for the time being by a transitional measure (support staff are only encouraged to take it).
特定技能制度における養成講習について · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2027-04-01 起施行
From 1 October 2026, status-change and extension fees depend on the length of the stay granted, ranging from 10,000 yen for up to three months to 75,000 yen for five years or more at the counter.
令和８年１０月１日付け在留許可手数料の額の改定等について（英語ポスター） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-10-01 起施行
From 20 August 2026, applications for Specified Skilled Worker (ii) must include a pledge on the work content (an ISA reference form) showing how the work differs from that of interns and SSW1 workers and who is being guided.
２号特定技能外国人の業務内容について（令和８年８月５日） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-08-20 起施行
On 13 April 2026, at the request of the Minister of Agriculture, ISA temporarily stopped issuing certificates of eligibility for the food service field; applications received from that day are not issued.
特定技能「外食業分野」における在留資格認定証明書交付の一時停止措置について · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2026-04-13 起施行
As of 19 October 2026, food service certificates are being issued in order of receipt and only for applications received up to 6 February 2026, while change-of-status applications are prioritised.
特定技能１号（外食業分野）の在留諸申請の審査状況（2026年10月19日掲載） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-10-19 起施行
Support organisations registered before 1 April 2027 whose registration expires by 31 July 2027 can renew under the old requirements only if they apply before 1 April 2027; later renewals must meet the new rules.
１号特定技能外国人への支援体制に係る要件の改正について（令和９年４月１日施行） · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2027-04-01 起施行
A common exam policy for Specified Skilled Worker and Employment for Skill Development was decided on 11 March 2025 and replaced the earlier SSW-only exam policy.
試験関係（特定技能制度） · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2025-03-11 起施行
An operating booklet for the logistics warehouse field was established on 18 September 2026 and one for linen supply on 1 June 2026, giving field-specific rules for those new fields.
特定技能制度（出入国在留管理庁）更新情報 · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-09-18 起施行
The exemption from skills and Japanese tests for related TITP No. 2 completers continues after 1 April 2027 "for the time being", and for unrelated completers the Japanese test stays waived while the skills test is still required.
運用要領別冊特定の分野に係る特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領（ビルクリーニング分野） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2027-04-01 起施行
For people who completed TITP before 1 November 2017 or the old Designated Activities training that existed before 1 July 2010, the rule changes for anyone granted landing or status permission on or after 1 April 2027: before, related work needed no tests and unrelated work needed only the skills test; afterwards both the skills test and the Japanese test must be passed.
技能実習法施行以前の「技能実習」等を修了した者が「特定技能１号」に移行しようとする場合の取扱いについて · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2027-04-01 起施行
ISA has not yet announced when the B1 Japanese requirement for SSW2 will also apply to applications for change of status and for extension (still under consideration); for certificate-of-eligibility applications the B1 level is required from 1 April 2027.
日本語能力水準「Ｂ１相当以上」の確認開始時期について（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2027-04-01 起施行
In the 19 October 2026 revision of the operating manual, the SSW2 note on instructed persons was reworded: persons working at a different site are still excluded in principle but are treated flexibly where reasonable, persons instructed by other SSW2 holders count when reasonable, a temporary shortfall is tolerated when the people to instruct are still being recruited, and the old explicit exclusion of non-full-time staff no longer appears; the pledge Form 1-32 was amended too.
「特定技能外国人受入れに関する運用要領」の一部改正について（令和８年１０月１９日） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2026-10-19 起施行
Since 2025 the ISA operating manual was revised on 1 April 2025, 1 June 2025, 30 September 2025, 24 March 2026, 1 April 2026, 20 August 2026 and 19 October 2026, each with an old-and-new comparison table published on the ISA page.
特定技能運用要領（出入国在留管理庁） · 2026-10-23 核对
ISA's 2026 update list shows operating booklets (field-specific manuals) revised for industrial products manufacturing (25 June), aviation (17 July), building cleaning, railways and food and beverage manufacturing (28 August), road transport (9 October) and fishery (15 October).
特定技能制度（出入国在留管理庁）更新情報 · 2026-10-23 核对
The Cabinet decision of 11 March 2025 changed three existing fields: nursing care now allows specified skilled workers in home-visit services, industrial products manufacturing makes membership of a private body for orderly acceptance a condition, and food service allows full food-and-drink service in licensed hotels and inns covered by the entertainment-business law.
特定技能制度に係る既存の分野別運用方針の改正について（令和７年３月１１日閣議決定） · 2026-10-23 核对 · 自 2025-03-11 起施行
The building-cleaning SSW1 evaluation test moved to computer-based testing from 10 March 2025.
ビルクリーニング分野における特定技能制度（厚生労働省） · 2026-10-22 核对 · 自 2025-03-10 起施行
ISA's 2026 update list shows the field-specific criteria notices ('standards set in view of circumstances specific to the field') revised for railways (1 April), road transport (10 April), food and beverage manufacturing (15 April), accommodation (22 April), forestry (23 April), industrial products manufacturing (8 May), automobile maintenance (22 May), construction (23 June) and shipbuilding (2 July).
特定技能制度（出入国在留管理庁）更新情報 · 2026-10-23 核对

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