J-Find Visa for graduates of top global universities

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The J-Find (Future Creation Individual Visa) is a program that grants a “Designated Activities” residency status to outstanding graduates from foreign universities who wish to engage in job-hunting or business start-up activities in Japan. This residency status presents advantages of J-Find visa for graduates, allowing them to stay in Japan for a maximum of two years, with the need for renewal every year or six months. Graduates who meet all of the following criteria (a-c) are eligible for this program.

United States

  • Brown University
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Columbia University
  • Cornell University
  • Duke University
  • Harvard University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • New York University
  • Northwestern University
  • Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
  • Princeton University
  • Purdue University - West Lafayette
  • Stanford University
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Irvine
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of California, San Diego
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Southern California
  • University of Washington
  • University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Washington University in St. Louis
  • Yale University