Nursing Care & Welfare– tag –

Based on the guidance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Prometric, this article explains the Nursing Care Specified Skills Evaluation Test (Skills and Japanese; formerly the Nursing Care Skills Evaluation Test and the Nursing Care Japanese Language Evaluation Test) that you take to work in the "nursing care" field of Specified Skilled Worker: what the tests cover, who can take them, how to apply with Prometric (creating an ID, booking, and payment), what to bring on the test day, the score report, the 45-day rule if you fail, the latest pass rates by country, and the order of steps from passing to starting work.

A field-by-field guide to the documents only for the nursing care field (Table 3) in Specified Skilled Worker "Nursing Care" applications. It covers the entry fields and nine pledges of the written pledge (Field Reference Form No. 1-1), how to count nursing care staff in the facility outline (No. 1-2), what to check before submitting the council certificate, the skills and Japanese-language proof for each background, the evaluation report, and the documents to submit when you cannot get one.

Since April 21, 2025, nursing care workers with Specified Skilled Worker (i) status can work in home-visit services such as home-visit care, under certain conditions. Following the notices and Q&A of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, this article explains, in the order of the steps: the worker's conditions (completing the initial training course for care workers or similar, and in principle at least 1 year of work experience), the exception for less than 1 year of experience and the length of accompanied visits, the 5 things the facility must observe, explanations to users and families, applying for a certificate of conformity for each foreign national and the documents, periodic reports and itinerant visits, and the procedures for transferring a worker from a facility.

A list of the documents to submit when applying for Specified Skilled Worker "Nursing Care," organized by application type: Certificate of Eligibility, change of status of residence, and extension of period of stay. Following the document checklists revised on October 1, 2026, this article covers the documents only for the nursing care field (the written pledge, the facility outline, and the council certificate), the documents common to all fields and where to get them, where to submit to the council and to immigration, and the fees and standard processing periods.

Based on materials from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Immigration Services Agency, this article explains the requirements for accepting foreign nationals under Specified Skilled Worker "Nursing Care" (the worker's tests, the facility's headcount limit and direct employment, and joining the council) and the process from applying to immigration to the procedures after acceptance. It also covers the 2026 changes to the test names, passing standards, and test fees, the council's new membership rules, the conditions for home-visit care work, and the extension of the total period of stay through partial passes of the certified care worker national exam.

Care facilities continue to face chronic staffing shortages, leading to an increasing number of companies considering the recruitment of foreign workers. Man...

A timeline-based explanation of the path from Specified Skilled Worker "Nursing Care" to Permission for permanent residence (passing the certified care worker exam and changing to the "Nursing Care" status of residence) and how years of residence are counted. Covers the permanent residence guidelines revised on October 1, Reiwa 8 (household income level, Japanese at B1 level, the special rule for spouses), how a 3-year period of stay is treated from April 2027, and the 200,000 yen fee.

The acceptance of foreign workers in Japan's nursing care sector under the Specified Skills program continues to expand against the backdrop of increasingly ...

The number of foreign workers employed as Specified Skilled Workers in the care work field is increasing year by year.From an employer's perspective, determi...

Japan's immigration system is built upon multiple layers of official documentation, including laws, government ordinances, ministerial orders, guidelines, an...