the anxiety deportees feel about returning home and to encourage the voluntary return of the deportees through the provision of reintegration support after return such as job placement and medical support.

So far, a number of families and individuals have returned home such as Asia, Africa and South America through this program and are receiving living, employment and enrollment support after returning home from the respective local IOM office.

The Immigration Bureau intends to continue with implementation of these programs with the cooperation of the IOM and to facilitate the voluntary return of deportees and reintegration in their home country.

## Article Case Examples of Crackdowns on Imposter Residents

Since imposter residents appear to be “regular residents” on the surface, it is difficult to accurately ascertain their actual status, but the existence of imposter residents is related to the foundation of immigration control administration in our country, so we proactively enforce the deportation procedures against persons who come under the grounds for deportation. However, the disguised means they use takes many different forms, so even in cases where a foreign resident appears not to come under the grounds for deportation, when the legitimacy of the status of residence comes under question such as in the case of a fake marriage, we cooperate with the police and conduct appropriate residence management by enforcing the procedures for revocation of the status of residence.

Cases of imposter residents, etc. exposed by the Immigration Bureau are given below.

○ Some Chinese nationals, who illegally stayed in Japan after the authorized period of stay, possessed a fake residence card of another person’s name, which had their own facial image and the print of “No restrictions on employment” in the section on restrictions on work and submitted a copy of the card to their employer.

○ A Nepalese national, after graduating from a professional training college, requested to be introduced to a place of employment by paying close to 1 million yen to Company A and after several months, signed an employment contract with the same company as “international student support staff”, obtaining the status of residence of “Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/ International Services”. However, the job content referred to as “on-site training” was, in fact, washing dishes in restaurants and convenience stores, helping with cooking and working on the cash register, and in reality, there were few opportunities for the person to use a foreign language such as English, and the foreign national was not engaging in the activities corresponding to the status of residence of “Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/ International Services”.

In addition, starting with the discovery that one foreign company, where a foreign national was registered as an officer, was a fictitious company, the Immigration Bureau conducted an investigation of approximately 60 companies where the same foreign national was involved in the establishment of the company, and which were ascertained to be the organization of affiliation of another foreign national, and discovered that most of them were fictitious companies, and that all the declarations of the foreign nationals who were supposedly employed by each company were false.