Japan's parliament on Friday passed an immigration control law revision to raise the maximum fee for residence status applications by foreigners and introduce an online pre-entry travel authorisation system for overseas arrivals.

Tokyo, May 29 (Jiji Press)--The Diet, Japan's parliament, enacted on Friday a bill to raise the caps on fees for foreign nationals' applications related to residence status by up…

Once the fee changes are rolled out later this year, the upper limit will be set at US$630 for visa renewals.

Japan's parliament on Friday passed an immigration control law revision to raise the maximum fee for residence status applications by foreigners and introduce an online pre-entry…