The procedure for issuing a new passport became available online in 27 prefectures, including Osaka and Saitama, from the 16th.
If you apply by reading the information of your My Number Card such as your smartphone, you only need to go to the counter once when you receive it.
To issue or renew a passport, it is necessary to go to the prefectural office where the resident registration is located and apply with identification documents, etc., but in order to improve convenience, systems are being developed in various places so that it can be done online.
And from the
27th, applications for new issuance will be made at all of 13 prefectures such as Osaka and Saitama, and at some counters in the three prefectures of Ibaraki, Kumamoto, and Okinawa
(13 prefectures = Aomori, Miyagi, Saitama, Chiba, Toyama, Osaka, Kyoto, Wakayama, Tottori, Tokushima, Kagawa, Kochi,
Oita)
Applications for renewals can now be made online nationwide, with some exceptions.
After registering a photo or an image of your signature on your smartphone, you can apply by reading the information on your My Number Card, etc., and you only need to go to the counter once when you receive it.
Shigetoshi Nagao, Director of the Policy Division of the Consular Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, "You can apply anytime and anywhere you have your smartphone, regardless of whether it is at night or on holidays, so I would like you to use it.