Hello!
I’m planning on applying for a working holiday visa (as a Brit), so that I can work a job while spending a season snowboarding in Japan.
From the embassy’s guidance, it seems that this is the sort of thing the visa is meant to be used for.
Therefore I prepped all the docs and headed to the embassy to submit them. Unfortunately the person reviewing my application advised me that I’m unlikely to get accepted, as by working a winter season, my main objective isn’t a holiday. Personally I didn’t quite understand this, but I went away and amended my wording to make it obvious that the visa would allow me to holiday at the resort. I also added detail of what I plan to do outside of the season (travelling to Tokyo etc.)
I’ve just got back from my 2nd embassy visit. THEY STILL SAID ITS NOT SUITABLE!!!
I don’t know if I’m being really stupid or if I’m missing something. The embassy persons point was still that a snowboard season doesn’t equal a holiday. They told me to instead look at acquiring a normal working visa instead of a working holiday visa.
Does anyone have any tips on what I should do in this situation? She said I could just submit my docs anyways, but if it gets rejected I’d have to wait 6 months to try again!!
I feel a bit hard done by, I could just be being stupid though.
EDIT - Thanks all for the pointers, it makes complete sense what I need to adjust. I was approaching it from the complete wrong direction before! I’m booked in again for next week, 3rd try is apparently lucky so we’ll see how it goes :)