# 出入国管理及び難民認定法第二十条の二第二項の基準を定める省令 / Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 制定文（一） (Enacting Statement 1)

- Law: 出入国管理及び難民認定法第二十条の二第二項の基準を定める省令 (Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act), 平成二十一年法務省令第五十一号
- English title "Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 制定文（一） (Enacting Statement 1) — address `enact-1`
- Text in force since: 2017-11-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance/enact-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/enact-1
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**制定文（一）**  出入国管理及び難民認定法（昭和二十六年政令第三百十九号）第二十条の二第二項の規定に基づき、出入国管理及び難民認定法第二十条の二第二項の基準を定める省令を次のように定める。
<sup>enact-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance/enact-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421M60000010051/enact-1</sup>
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 20-2, paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Cabinet Order No. 319 of 1951), the Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act is established as follows.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- enact-1: 出入国管理及び難民認定法（昭和二十六年政令第三百十九号）第二十条の二第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十条の二第二項 (Article 20-2, paragraph (2)), art-20-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-20-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-20-2/par-2

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 出入国管理及び難民認定法第二十条の二第二項の基準を定める省令 — the text in force from 2017-11-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/421M60000010051/20171101_429M60000010019), retrieved 2026-10-20
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Ministerial Order to Provide for Criteria Pursuant to Article 20-2, Paragraph (2) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5032/tb), retrieved 2026-10-20
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch highly-skilled-professional-ii-criteria-ordinance-20261020T081651-001, translated 2026-10-20
- This site's parser, version 210 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法第二十条の二第二項の基準を定める省令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-20