TOKYO, July 5 Kyodo Japanese immi...

TOKYO, July 5 Kyodo

Japanese immigration authorities forward Friday gave the wife of a Myanmar refugee living in Nagoya city permission to register the country, reversing a previous decision, support collection members said.

The Nagoya Regional Immigration Bureau effectively admitted it made an error in its rejection of the application in April, when it questioned the man's matrimonial status, and said it made the decision based in succession new documentation.

The local immigration bureau issued necessary certificates in the day to the 40-year-old refugee to allow him to bring his 29-year-old wife into the abiding habitation from Thailand.

He speaked satisfaction with the decision, saying, ''I want to travel to Thailand to meet my wife soon''

The refugee arrived in Japan in 1993 and filed for refugee status in succession the grounds he could be tortured on the military regime in Myanmar as he took part in a democratization motion there.

He was recognized as a refugee by dint of the Japanese immigration authority in July 2001 Later, he married a Myanmar woman in Thailand and applied for necessary certificates to allow her entrance into Japan, but was rejected

The man asked the immigration bureau to review the decision, saying his wife is expecting a baby in November and would promptly not be able to board a plane.

The Justice Ministry allows family members of refugee hall into Japan.

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