# 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 — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) - 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: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) — address `suppl-4239-43/art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/suppl-4239-43/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/suppl-4239-43/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条 suppl-4239-43/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/suppl-4239-43/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/suppl-4239-43/art-15 **第一項** 予定中長期在留者であって、新入管法施行規則第十九条の七第一項の申出をしようとするものは、施行日前においても、その申出をすることができる。 suppl-4239-43/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/suppl-4239-43/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/suppl-4239-43/art-15/par-1 A prospective mid- to long-term resident who seeks to make the proposal set forth in Article 19-7, paragraph (1) of the New Regulation for Enforcement of the Immigration Control Act may make that proposal even before the Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の申出は、改正法附則第十三条第一項の規定による申請（同条第五項の規定により同条第一項の規定による申請とみなされる申請を含む。）又は改正法附則第十六条第二項の規定により改正法施行日において同条第一項の規定による申請とみなされる旧外国人登録法第三条第一項若しくは第七条第一項の規定による申請と併せて行わなければならない。 suppl-4239-43/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/suppl-4239-43/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/suppl-4239-43/art-15/par-2 The proposal set forth in the preceding paragraph must be made together with an application pursuant to the provisions of Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the amending Act (including an application deemed to be an application pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5) of that Article) or an application pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) or Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Former Alien Registration Act that is deemed, on the effective date of the amending Act, to be an application pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the amending Act pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4239-43/art-15/par-1: 新入管法施行規則第十九条の七第一項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 第十九条の七第一項 (Article 19-7, paragraph (1)), art-19-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/art-19-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/art-19-7/par-1 - suppl-4239-43/art-15/par-2: 前項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 附則第十五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15, paragraph (1)), suppl-4239-43/art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/suppl-4239-43/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/suppl-4239-43/art-15/par-1 ## Cited by 3 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 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/suppl-4239-43/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/suppl-4239-43/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 附則第一条第一項第三号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/suppl-4239-43/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/suppl-4239-43/art-1/par-1/item-3 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行規則 附則第十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-regulation/suppl-4239-43/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356M50000010054/suppl-4239-43/art-15/par-2 --- ## 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 — 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-20260922T203209-028, 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