# 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 / Regulation for Enforcement of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第二十五条 (Article 25) - Law: 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 (Regulation for Enforcement of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act), 昭和五十六年法務省令第五十四号 - English title "Regulation for Enforcement 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: 第二十五条 (Article 25)（永住者の在留資格の取得） — address `art-25` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-25 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-25 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十五条（永住者の在留資格の取得） — (Acquisition of the Status of Residence of "Permanent Resident") caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-25 **第一項** 法第二十二条の二第二項（法第二十二条の三において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により在留資格の取得を申請しようとする外国人のうち同条第四項に規定する永住者の在留資格の取得の申請をしようとするものは、別記第三十四号様式による申請書一通、写真一葉、第二十二条第一項及び前条第二項に掲げる書類並びにその他参考となるべき資料各一通を提出しなければならない。この場合においては、第二十二条第一項ただし書の規定を準用する。 art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-25/par-1 Among foreign nationals who seek to apply for the acquisition of status of residence pursuant to the provisions of Article 22-2, paragraph (2) of the Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 22-3 of the Act), a foreign national who seeks to apply for acquisition of the status of residence of "Permanent Resident" as prescribed in Article 22-2, paragraph (4) of the Act must submit a copy of the written application pursuant to the Appended Form No. 34, a photograph, the documents listed in Article 22, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, and a copy of each of any other materials to be used as reference. In this case, the provisions of the proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) are applied mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Among foreign nationals who seek to apply for the acquisition of status of residence pursuant to the provisions of Article 22-2, paragraph (2) of the Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 22-3 of the Act), a foreign national who seeks to apply for acquisition of the status of residence of "Permanent Resident" as prescribed in Article 22-2, paragraph (4) of the Act must submit a a copy of the written application pursuant to the Appended Form No. 34, a photograph, the documents listed in Article 22, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, and a copy of each of any other materials to be used as reference. In this case, the provisions of the proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) are applied mutatis mutandis." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4180/tb **第二項** 前項の場合において、前項の申請が一歳に満たない者に係るものであるときは、写真の提出を要しない。ただし、地方出入国在留管理局長が提出を要するとした場合は、この限りでない。 art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-25/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the application set forth in the preceding paragraph is an application for a person under one year of age, the submission of a photograph is not required; provided, however, that this does not apply to cases in which the director of the regional immigration services bureau requires its submission. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前条第四項の規定は、第一項の申請について準用する。 art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-25/par-3 The provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the application set forth in paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-25/par-1: 法第二十二条の二第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十二条の二第二項 (Article 22-2, paragraph (2)), art-22-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-22-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-22-2/par-2 - art-25/par-1: 法第二十二条の三 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十二条の三 (Article 22-3), art-22-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-22-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-22-3 - art-25/par-1: 同条第四項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第二十二条の二第四項 (Article 22-2, paragraph (4)), art-22-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-22-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-22-2/par-4 - art-25/par-1: 別記第三十四号様式 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 別記第八十二 (Appended Note 82), note-82 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/note-82 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/note-82 - art-25/par-1: 第二十二条第一項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第二十二条第一項 (Article 22, paragraph (1)), art-22/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-22/par-1 - art-25/par-1: 前条第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第二十四条第二項 (Article 24, paragraph (2)), art-24/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-24/par-2 - art-25/par-2: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-25/par-1 - art-25/par-3: 前条第四項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第二十四条第四項 (Article 24, paragraph (4)), art-24/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-24/par-4 - art-25/par-3: 第一項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-25/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第六条の二第二項（在留資格認定証明書） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-6-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-6-2/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第十九条の六第二項第六号（在留カードの記載事項等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-19-6/par-2/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-19-6/par-2/item-6 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第十九条の六第八項第一号（在留カードの記載事項等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-19-6/par-8/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-19-6/par-8/item-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第二十五条第二項（永住者の在留資格の取得） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-25/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第二十五条第三項（永住者の在留資格の取得） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-25/par-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 附則第二項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/suppl-4169-85/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/suppl-4169-85/par-2 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 附則第七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/suppl-4239-43/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/suppl-4239-43/art-7/par-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 別表第七 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/appdx-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/appdx-7 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-05 - 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施行規則 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/356M50000010054/20261001_508M60000010047), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Regulation for Enforcement of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則), Article 25, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4180/tb), retrieved 2026-09-27 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Regulation for Enforcement of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4180/tb), retrieved 2026-09-27 - claude-opus-5-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation-20260922T203209-005, translated 2026-09-23 - This site's parser, version 211 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05