Japan visa options for Mexico passport holders

Routes that depend on your nationality

Some of Japan’s long-stay routes are open only to citizens of specific countries. Here’s where a Mexico passport stands:

• Working Holiday Visa

  Not open to Mexico passport holders

  Japan's Working Holiday Programme is run by MOFA under bilateral agreements; it is the only nationality-restricted long-stay route into Japan. Generally for applicants aged 18-30 (inclusive) at time of application, not accompanied by dependents, granting a 12-month stay with paid work allowed as incidental to the holiday. A few partners have a lower upper age limit (e.g. Iceland 18-26; some sources note 18-25 base treaties for Australia/Canada/Korea/Ireland extended to 30). Quotas vary by country (e.g. UK ~6,000/year; Netherlands ~200/year). The 32 eligiblePassports listed are the well-documented operational partners as of the japan-guide.com list updated 1 April 2026 (cross-checked against MOFA-sourced reporting). Israel (IL) signed a working holiday agreement in 2023 as Japan's 31st partner and first in the Middle East, but does not appear on the current operational eligible list, so it is excluded here pending confirmation. Some other countries (e.g. Peru, Indonesia) appear in signed-but-not-yet-operational reports and are excluded. The United States and mainland China are NOT partners. Note: the US E-2/E-1 treaty visas are routes INTO the US (Japan is a US treaty country), not routes into Japan, so they are not applicable here. Japan's Nikkei/Long-Term Resident (ancestry) visa is descent-based rather than tied to a fixed passport list, so it is not included as a nationality-restricted route.