Supplementary Provisions, Article 3

In the case where a person who has filed the application under Article 6, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Act") or an application for the issuance of a certificate of eligibility under Article 7-2, paragraph (1) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as the "applicant") seeks to enter a university or an equivalent educational institution, or a technical college (hereinafter referred to as a "university, etc.") as a research student or an audit student who is to exclusively attend courses to receive education, in order to exclusively receive Japanese language education (meaning the Japanese language education prescribed in Article 1 of the Act on the Accreditation, etc. of Japanese Language Educational Institutions to Ensure the Proper and Reliable Provision of Japanese Language Education (Act No. 41 of 2023)), and that university, etc. accepted, during the period from one year before the Effective Date to the day before the Effective Date, foreign nationals residing with the status of residence of "Student" in Appended Table I (4) of the Act who exclusively receive instruction in the Japanese language, the provisions of item (iii) of the right-hand column of the entry for student activities in the New Ministerial Order apply to that application during the period from the Effective Date to March 31, 2029, with the phrase "falls under item (i), sub-item (a) or (b)" in that item deemed to be replaced with "falls under any of item (i), sub-items (a) through (c)".