Start Your Life in Manila
with Confidence

For anyone about to start life in Manila

“We can’t accept
these documents!”

You get to the government office first thing in the morning and take a number.

Two hours later, your number is finally called.

You brought exactly the documents you were told to bring. And yet—

“That form isn’t handled at this window.”

“The officer in charge isn’t in today. Please come back tomorrow.”

“You’re one copy short. There’s a machine downstairs.”

Have you ever spent a day like that? Nobody meant any harm. And still, a whole day of yours disappears.

If that has never happened to you, please forget about Manila JP Support. Feel free to close this page right now.

But if any of it sounds familiar, we have one request.

It really is a small one.

Read this page to the end, and send us a single form. It takes three minutes.

Three minutes is still your time, so we would like to give you something in return. We will map out what to do, and in what order, free of charge.

We are Manila JP Support. We have lived in Manila for 13 years, and everything—from the first consultation to standing next to you at the counter—is handled in Japanese.

Put simply, having someone on the ground you can talk to in your own language is worth a great deal.

We are not asking you to hand over your entire move to us.

We would love to, of course. But we can already hear the answer: “that is more than I need.”

So here is what we propose instead.

Hand us just one thing—whichever procedure is stuck right now.

Things like these, for example.

• Working out the steps for a visa extension or change of status
• Finding a place to live, and sitting with you at the signing
• Opening a bank account, and sorting out your phone and internet
• Interpreting at government offices, hospitals, and real estate agents
• Mapping out company registration and the documents it needs

Even so, a question has probably come to mind.

“Aren’t they all the same?”

That is what you are thinking, isn’t it? In fact, they are not.

These are only examples. To see what people actually asked for, and how it went, please read our support cases.

“I can manage this myself.”

That was your reaction, wasn’t it? And you are right—given enough time, you can.

The question is whether that day goes to unfamiliar paperwork, or to your work and your family. Let us take the running around, and you get to spend the day on what you came here to do.

“Well, nothing is going wrong right now.”

Quite possibly nothing is.

But once the visa deadline is closing in, once the lease turns into a dispute, once your health gives out—by then you are looking for help in a hurry, with no room to choose who you get.

And simply knowing there is someone you can call, in your own language, changes how life here feels.

Manila JP Support as your ace in the hole

Keep us in your back pocket, as an ace in the hole. That is reason enough to get in touch.

We should be honest with you, though. We are a small team, so we can only take on a handful of clients at a time. Going to the counter in person puts a hard limit on the number.

Requesting the free consultation is simple. Your name, your email, and what you would like to ask about. Three minutes.

Hear us out first. Whether you hand anything over to us is a decision for afterwards.

Not ready to ask anyone yet...

Then read what other people went through first. No booking, no sign-up.

• Getting an SRRV (permanent residency visa)From application to approval, in the order it actually happened
• Opening a hair salon in ManilaCompany registration and the permits it really takes
• Signing a condominium leaseFrom viewings to sitting at the signing (Makati)
• Frequently asked questionsCosts, talking to us before you fly, and partial requests

If reading them makes you wonder how your own case would go, that is the moment to get in touch.

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