In municipalities, Inkan card which you receive when Hanko registration is completed is necessary to be identified to issue “Inkan registration certificate” in alomost cases.

Even if you bring your Hanko with you, unless you bring you Hanko card with you, municipality will not give you permission to issue Hanko registration certificate. Hanko card is an identification card to receive Hanko registration certificate.

Depending on the municipality, an automatic issuing machine for Hanko registration certificate is set in a wating floor of its office. The machine also requests us to identify our Inkan card to issue a certificate but you can recieve a certificate very quickly.

Obtainment of Hanko registration certificate by an agent

You don’t need to prepare a letter of attorney. An agent brings your Inkan card and fills in Hanko registration certificate issuance application form in a municipality office.

request of a company’s Hanko registration certificate

To request company’s Hanko registration certificate, you need to submit Inkan-card issued by Regional Legal Affairs Burea.

After the day of completion of registration, you need to submit a filled Inkan card issuance application with impression of Jitsuin to a registry office that has jurisdiction over head quater of your company, then you can receive a certificate.

When you lost your Inkan card

If you lost your Inkan card, you have a risk to be obtained “Hanko registration certificate” by means of your Inkan card by a third party. You must invalidate the card effect as soon as possible by abolition procedure of your Inkan card and carry out re-issuance procedure for new Inkan card in Regional Legal Affairs Bureau.

Jitsu-In issuance procedure for foreigner

Inkan registration is granted its effectiveness by carrying out the procedure in the city where you’ve got a residence card. The first thing you need to do before going head with preparation for Hanko registration is to get residence card.

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