An application under Article 19-15-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Act") must be made by appearing in person at a regional immigration services bureau and submitting one written application in accordance with the Appended Form No. 1.
出入国管理及び難民認定法（以下「法」という。）第十九条の十五の二第一項の規定による申請は、地方出入国在留管理局に自ら出頭し、別記第一号様式による申請書一通を提出して行わなければならない。
An application under the preceding paragraph (limited to one relating to the notification or application listed in Article 19-15-2, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act) need not be made by the mid- to long-term resident by appearing in person, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, in the following cases:
前項の申請（法第十九条の十五の二第一項第一号に掲げる届出又は申請に係るものに限る。）は、次に掲げる場合には、前項の規定にかかわらず、中長期在留者が自ら出頭してこれを行うことを要しない。
where the mid- to long-term resident is under 16 years of age, where the application under the preceding paragraph (limited to one relating to an application under Article 19-11, paragraph (1) of the Act) is made and the date of the application is the mid- to long-term resident's sixteenth birthday, or where the mid- to long-term resident is unable to make the application under the preceding paragraph (limited to one relating to the notification or application listed in Article 19-15-2, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act; the same applies in the following item and item (iv)) in person due to illness or any other reason, and in any of those cases a relative of the mid- to long-term resident (excluding a person under 16 years of age; the same applies in the following item and item (iii)) who lives with the mid- to long-term resident makes that application on behalf of the mid- to long-term resident;
当該中長期在留者が十六歳に満たない場合、前項の申請（法第十九条の十一第一項の申請に係るものに限る。）をする場合であってその申請の日が十六歳の誕生日であるとき又は疾病その他の事由により自ら前項の申請（法第十九条の十五の二第一項第一号に掲げる届出又は申請に係るものに限る。次号及び第四号において同じ。）をすることができない場合において、当該中長期在留者の親族（十六歳に満たない者を除く。次号及び第三号において同じ。）であって当該中長期在留者と同居するものが当該中長期在留者に代わって当該申請をするとき。
where a relative of the mid- to long-term resident who lives with the mid- to long-term resident makes the application under the preceding paragraph on behalf of the mid- to long-term resident at the request of the mid- to long-term resident;
当該中長期在留者の親族であって当該中長期在留者と同居するものが当該中長期在留者の依頼により当該中長期在留者に代わって前項の申請をする場合
where a person listed in Article 59-4, paragraph (2), item (i), (a) through (c) of the Regulation for Enforcement of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Ministry of Justice Order No. 54 of 1981; hereinafter referred to as the "Regulation for Enforcement of the Immigration Control Act") carries out the procedures relating to the submission of the written application prescribed in the preceding paragraph on behalf of the mid- to long-term resident (in the case of a person listed in (a) and (b) of that item, limited to the case where they do so at the request of the mid- to long-term resident or at the request of a relative of the mid- to long-term resident who lives with the mid- to long-term resident (limited to the case that falls under the case prescribed in item (i)); in the case of a person listed in paragraph (2), item (i), (c) of that Article, excluding the case where they do so on behalf of the mid- to long-term resident pursuant to the provisions of item (i)), and the director of the regional immigration services bureau finds it appropriate;
where the mid- to long-term resident is under 16 years of age or is unable to make the application under the preceding paragraph in person due to illness or any other reason, and a relative of the mid- to long-term resident (excluding a person under 16 years of age and a person who lives with the mid- to long-term resident), a person who lives with the mid- to long-term resident (excluding a person under 16 years of age and a relative of the mid- to long-term resident), or a person equivalent thereto, whom the director of the regional immigration services bureau finds appropriate, carries out the procedures prescribed in the preceding item on behalf of the mid- to long-term resident.
An application under paragraph (1) (limited to one relating to the application listed in Article 19-15-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) need not be made by the mid- to long-term resident by appearing in person, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), in the following cases:
第一項の申請（法第十九条の十五の二第一項第二号に掲げる申請に係るものに限る。以下この項において同じ。）は、次に掲げる場合には、第一項の規定にかかわらず、中長期在留者が自ら出頭してこれを行うことを要しない。
where the legal representative of the mid- to long-term resident makes the application under paragraph (1) on behalf of the mid- to long-term resident;
当該中長期在留者の法定代理人が当該中長期在留者に代わって第一項の申請をする場合
where any of the following persons, at the request of a mid- to long-term resident who is in Japan or of the legal representative of that mid- to long-term resident, carries out the procedures prescribed in item (iii) of the preceding paragraph on behalf of that mid- to long-term resident, and the director of the regional immigration services bureau finds it appropriate:
次に掲げる者が、本邦にある中長期在留者又はその法定代理人の依頼により当該中長期在留者に代わって前項第三号に規定する手続をする場合であって、地方出入国在留管理局長において相当と認めるとき。
a person listed in Article 59-4, paragraph (2), item (i), (a) or (b) of the Regulation for Enforcement of the Immigration Control Act;
入管法施行規則第五十九条の四第二項第一号イ又はロに掲げる者
an employee prescribed in Article 59-4, paragraph (4), item (ii) of the Regulation for Enforcement of the Immigration Control Act whom the director of the regional immigration services bureau finds appropriate;
入管法施行規則第五十九条の四第四項第二号に規定する職員で地方出入国在留管理局長が適当と認めるもの
where the mid- to long-term resident is under 16 years of age or is unable to make the application under paragraph (1) in person due to illness or any other reason, and a relative of the mid- to long-term resident (excluding a person under 16 years of age), a person who lives with the mid- to long-term resident (excluding a person under 16 years of age and a relative of the mid- to long-term resident), or a person equivalent thereto, whom the director of the regional immigration services bureau finds appropriate, carries out the procedures prescribed in item (iii) of the preceding paragraph on behalf of the mid- to long-term resident.
Where the application under paragraph (1) is one relating to an application under Article 19-11, paragraph (1) of the Act, an indication that an application under Article 19-11, paragraph (1) of the Act has been made is to be put on the residence card presented pursuant to the provisions of Article 19-9, paragraph (2) of the Regulation for Enforcement of the Immigration Control Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 19-10, paragraph (2) of the Regulation for Enforcement of the Immigration Control Act.
第一項の申請が法第十九条の十一第一項の規定による申請に係るものである場合には、入管法施行規則第十九条の十第二項において準用する入管法施行規則第十九条の九第二項の規定により提示された在留カードに、法第十九条の十一第一項の規定による申請があった旨の表示をするものとする。
In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, when the application under paragraph (1) is withdrawn, the indication put on the residence card pursuant to the preceding paragraph is to be erased.