Marriage & visa question

I intend on marrying my Japanese fiancé in a few months and to that end I will be travelling to Japan on a tourist visa and then �eupgrade�f to a spousal visa once I am married. However, as a UK citizen a proviso of the tourist visa is that I must have a return ticket when I enter Japan. This means that I will have to buy a return ticket and then cancel it (thus incurring cancellation charges) which seems a bit expensive since I have no intention of returning to the UK in the near future. Does anybody have any help or advice on this matter? Could I do this more cheaply?

Why do you have to cancel the return trip? Simply don't show up.

round trip ticket is cheaper than one way.


and, dont use the return portion.

i did the same thing. brought round trip ticket, came in august 2010,. changed my status to spouse. was supposed to leave in november. and just didnt check in or show up.