①After a birth
When a child is born to persons of foreign nationality, the father or mother
must register the child by the following process.
● Registration of Foreign Residents
Apply for the child’s Foreign Registration Card with the father or mother’s
(person who make an application) Foreign Registration Card and personal
seal, at the Resident Registration Section of your local ward office.
● Application for Acquisition of Status of Residence
Apply at the Immigration Office within 30 days of the birth
<Necessary Documents>
○ Birth Registration Receipt
○ Foreign Registration Card of the child
○ Foreign Registration Card of the parents
○ Passport of the parents
● Apply for Issuance of a Child Passport
Apply at the embassy or consulate of your country.
The required documents differ from according to the country. Please check
at the embassy or consulate for the further information.
②Lump Sum Birth Allowance
If you have joined the National Health Insurance Program in Osaka, you
are eligible to receive benefits that will assist you in paying expenses
related to child birth. This system applies after 85 days of pregnancy
and the baby is stillborn. You can apply for the benefits at your
local ward office.
There is also a system that Osaka City pays Lump Sum Birth Allowance directly
to medical institutions (domestic only). For further information,
please ask the medical institution where you are planning to have a baby.
If you have joined the Health Insurance Program offered by your workplace,
you should go to the Health Insurance Section (Health Insurance Association,
Japan Health Insurance Association’s branch offices.
③Health Check up for Infants (Free of charge)
3 months, 18 months and 3 years
Your local Public Health and Welfare Center will notify you of the Examination.
1 month ~ 2 months
Please fill out the reception form of general health examination
for infants. This form is attached to the Maternal and Child
Health Handbook. Submit this form to the medical facilities
in Osaka Prefecture to take the examination.
9 months ~ 11 months
Please fill out the reception form issued at the time of
health examination for infants aged 3 months, and submit
to the medical facilities in Osaka to take the examination.
④Preventive Vaccination (Free of charge)
Please take the various preventive injections with reference
to the schedule listed in
the preventive injection Notebook when your child is in
a good health.
⑤Medical Care Aid for Infants
If you have joined the National Health Insurance Program in Osaka, you
are eligible to receive benefits that will assist you in paying expenses
related to child birth. This system applies after 85 days of pregnancy
and the baby is stillborn. You can apply for the benefits at your
local ward office.
There is also a system that Osaka City pays Lump Sum Birth Allowance directly
to medical institutions (domestic only). For further information,
please ask the medical institution where you are planning to have a baby.
If you have joined the Health Insurance Program offered by your workplace,
you should go to the Health Insurance Section (Health Insurance Association,
Japan Health Insurance Association’s branch offices.You can apply for the
refund at the Public Health and Welfare Center.
⑥Child Allowance
Child allowance is provided to families with children, ranging from infants
to third year junior high school students. This allowance is granted the
month following that of the application. The monthly amount of the allowance
foe each child will be \13,000 and will be provided until the child becomes
15 years old (allowance will no longer be provided after march 31st.) For
more information, please refer to the Public Health and Welfare Center of your local ward.
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