Rules for Organization of Regional Immigration Services Bureaus

• Every regional immigration services bureau has a general affairs division (総務課); the Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka bureaus also have a personnel division (職員課) and a clinic (診療室), those three and Fukuoka an accounts division (会計課), and Tokyo a supplies division (用度課). The Order places senior officials in eight bureaus: Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima, Takamatsu and Fukuoka.(Art. 1(1), Art. 1(2)) (the provisions it rests on)
• Chief immigration inspectors (首席審査官) handle the inspection side of a bureau's work: landing permission, departure and re-entry permits, acquiring and changing status of residence and extending the period of stay, permanent residence, residence cards, certificates of eligibility, refugee and complementary protection recognition, examination of violations, written detention and deportation orders, supervision measures (監理措置), provisional release, departure orders, oral hearings and special permission to stay, among others. Tables for each bureau divide this work among them, for example by the status of residence a foreign national holds or seeks.(Art. 7(1), Art. 7(2)) (the provisions it rests on)
• Chief immigration control officers (首席入国警備官) handle the enforcement side: investigating violations, preventing violations that are grounds for deportation, executing written detention and deportation orders with the escort and removal that involves, the security of detention facilities, the treatment, admission and release of detainees, visits and correspondence, and the carrying and use of weapons, among others.(Art. 8(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
• The Order names the district offices (支局) — Narita Airport, Haneda Airport and Yokohama under Tokyo, Chubu Airport under Nagoya, Kansai Airport and Kobe under Osaka, and Naha under Fukuoka — and sets their divisions and officials; the four airport district offices have a forged and altered documents office (偽変造文書対策室) that examines passports, visas and other documents.(Art. 13(1), Art. 13(2), Art. 15(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
• The names and locations of the branch offices (出張所) of each bureau and district office are in the appended table (別表), and each branch office covers the same area as the bureau or district office it belongs to.(Art. 20(1), Art. 20(2), Appended Table 1) (the provisions it rests on)

• 14 June 2026

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  Ministerial Order Partially Amending the Rules for Organization of Regional Immigration Services Bureaus

  地方出入国在留管理局組織規則の一部を改正する省令

  Ministry of Justice Order No. 39 of 2026The text after this amendment, on e-Gov

• 8 April 2026

  Ministerial Order Partially Amending the Rules for Organization of Regional Immigration Services Bureaus

  地方出入国在留管理局組織規則の一部を改正する省令

  Ministry of Justice Order No. 27 of 2026The text after this amendment, on e-Gov

• 26 May 2025

  Ministerial Order Partially Amending the Rules for Organization of Regional Immigration Services Bureaus

  地方出入国在留管理局組織規則の一部を改正する省令

  Ministry of Justice Order No. 32 of 2025The text after this amendment, on e-Gov

• 15 May 2025

  Ministerial Order Partially Amending the Rules for Organization of Regional Immigration Services Bureaus

  地方出入国在留管理局組織規則の一部を改正する省令

  Ministry of Justice Order No. 32 of 2025The text after this amendment, on e-Gov

• 1 April 2025

  Ministerial Order Partially Amending the Rules for Organization of Regional Immigration Services Bureaus

  地方出入国在留管理局組織規則の一部を改正する省令

  Ministry of Justice Order No. 25 of 2025The text after this amendment, on e-Gov

• 10 June 2024

  Ministerial Order Partially Amending the Rules for Organization of Regional Immigration Services Bureaus

  地方出入国在留管理局組織規則の一部を改正する省令

  Ministry of Justice Order No. 40 of 2024The text after this amendment, on e-Gov

• 1 April 2024

  Ministerial Order Partially Amending the Rules for Organization of Regional Immigration Services Bureaus

  地方出入国在留管理局組織規則の一部を改正する省令

  Ministry of Justice Order No. 22 of 2024The text after this amendment, on e-Gov

• 1 December 2023

  Ministerial Order Partially Amending the Rules for Organization of Regional Immigration Services Bureaus

  地方出入国在留管理局組織規則の一部を改正する省令

  Ministry of Justice Order No. 41 of 2023The text after this amendment, on e-Gov

• 1 April 2023

  Ministerial Order Partially Amending the Rules for Organization of Regional Immigration Services Bureaus

  地方出入国在留管理局組織規則の一部を改正する省令

  Ministry of Justice Order No. 16 of 2023The text after this amendment, on e-Gov

• 1 October 2022

  Ministerial Order Partially Amending the Rules for Organization of Regional Immigration Services Bureaus

  地方出入国在留管理局組織規則の一部を改正する省令

  Ministry of Justice Order No. 37 of 2022The text after this amendment, on e-Gov

All 14 amendments already in force

• This Ministry of Justice Order organises offices and divides work among officials: it places no duty on the public and sets no penalties.(Art. 1(1), Art. 7(1), Art. 8(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
• The Commissioner of the Immigration Services Agency decides where the senior immigration inspectors (統括審査官, up to 421) and senior immigration control officers (統括入国警備官, up to 152) are placed, and approves the further details of organisation that each bureau's director (局長) sets.(Art. 25(1), Art. 25(2), Art. 26(1), Art. 26(2), Art. 28(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
• The director of a regional immigration services bureau may, where needed, station staff to work somewhere other than the place of their office.(Art. 27(1)) (the provisions it rests on)
• At branch offices, staff the bureau's director designates handle part of the enforcement work — investigating violations, preventing violations that are grounds for deportation, and executing written detention and deportation orders among it — and, at branch offices with no chief immigration inspector, the inspection work too.(Art. 23(1)) (the provisions it rests on)