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Permalink Reply by meagan5220 on
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There is a form they can fill out so you can get your id card without him but if yall are going to be getting married I would say make a trip to a local base with your marriage license and get it taken care of while he is here. I think under e4 are not getting approved for dependents overseas at all. From what I hear its hard or nearly impossibly to live in Japan in some places without command sponsorship.
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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I just got my dependent ID card renewed. At the Air Force base the choices are 1. have your sponsor with you, 2. have a sponsor signed DD1172 form or 3. have a power of attorney fro him. (Your sailor is your sponsor in this case. The word has several uses in the Navy)
Since you get the DD 1172 at the same place as the ID card, just have him go with you. It can all be done in one day. Find any nearby facility using the RAPIDS locator. In the meantime, be sure you have two forms of ID, and your SSN card. Or one form of ID and your birth certificate.
Go ahead and apply for a passport. You probably aren't going to Japan, but you can be prepared.
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If he is an E-3 or below, he cannot take you to Japan. Even if he makes E-4, he needs to put in a waiver to get command sponsorship for you, which is rarely granted for Japan. Command sponsorship is essential. You cannot receive a housing allowance there without it, or get base housing, or the cost of living allowance, and your access to base facilities would be limited, your medical on a standy basis. You would not be allowed to work there, on or off base. It also gives you a special visa which allows you to stay in country for more than 90 days.
I think you get a paid move with approved command sponsorship, but that changes so much, I don't know for sure anymore.
You can't just move there. It is a foreign country with immigration laws. You would need to get a work visa, which isn't easy. Are you qualified to do any work which would be get you a job in Japan, near his base? Teaching English is the most common, and honestly, your post does not fill me with optimism about that choice. I was stationed there/lived there for many years. It is crushingly expensive. You cannot make it on his base pay alone, I promise you that.
You can get married, but will live apart for the two or three years he is there. If he happens to make E-4, maybe, but unlikely, and he'd have to extend his time overseas in order to be eligible for you to move over. If you stay behind, you can have your ID card, medical, and he would get a housing allowance to send to you, along with family separation pay (I think). He can take leave once a year, but he has to pay for the trip home.
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Permalink Reply by Jeema on
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Thanks A Ton, Very Helpful. I Just Didn't Understand How These Things Work.
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Permalink Reply by pygmy on
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I'm actually in the exact same situation as you. We're planning on getting married once he graduates from a school and is on leave. An option I'm looking at is visiting when he gets back in port for whatever length of time. Which will be a crazy adventure of it's own knowing when that will be and organizing it. It's expensive to live in Japan without command sponsorship, even more difficult to stay there without SOFA and he won't receive any of the living allowances if you move to Japan unaccompanied. From what I've read it's almost impossible to do without being paid higher then E-4 or E-5.
Here's some information/resources
http://navyformoms.com/profiles/blogs/what-is-command-sponsorship
http://www.japanbases.com/forums/aft/1376.aspx
Unfortunately for me I probably wouldn't pass the overseas screening even if my sailor by some miracle got command sponsorship. It's something that either he'll understand when I break it to him or he'll just keep trying anyways. So I've made myself a backup plan.
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