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Orphaned Thai girl 'very happy' about 1-year resident status

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida, a 13-year-old Thai girl who was orphaned in her own country, shows her passport after being granted resident status for one year in Japan. She now lives in Japan with her Thai grandmother and her grandmother's Japanese husband.

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Orphaned Thai girl given 1-yr temporary resident status in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida, a 13-year-old Thai girl, responds to questions from reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 21 after Japan gave her a one-year temporary resident status. Yoshida, orphaned in Thailand, is now living in Japan with her Thai grandmother and her Japanese husband.

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Thai girl applies for permanent residency to stay in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida (L), a 13-year-old Thai orphan living in Japan with her grandmother (R), prepares to enter the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on Aug. 9 to apply to change from short-term to permanent resident status.

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Japan to allow Thai girl to stay in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida (C), a 13-year-old Thai girl living in Japan with her grandmother, is congratulated by classmates at her junior high school in Tokyo on July 6 on reports that the Japanese government will reverse its earlier decision and grant her long-term residence status.

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Gov't to give Thai girl residence in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida, a 13-year-old Thai girl living in Japan with her grandmother, smiles at her junior high school in Tokyo on July 6 when told of reports that the Japanese government will reverse its earlier decision and grant her permanent residence status.

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6,000 sign petition for Thai orphan fighting to settle in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida, a 13-year-old Thai orphan girl, speaks to reporters in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau building in Tokyo on July 5 after applying to the bureau for long-term resident status. She, along with her lawyer Satoshi Murata, also submitted a petition signed by over 6,000 people calling on the immigration authorities to grant long-term resident status.

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Thai girl fights immigration bureau, seeks to settle in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida, a junior high school student in Tokyo living in Japan since February 2003, filed a suit June 29 seeking repeal of an immigration bureau's decision not to grant her permanent residence status.

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Orphaned Thai girl given 1-yr temporary resident status in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida, a 13-year-old Thai girl, responds to questions from reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 21 after Japan gave her a one-year temporary resident status. Yoshida, orphaned in Thailand, is now living in Japan with her Thai grandmother and her Japanese husband. (Kyodo)

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Orphaned Thai girl 'very happy' about 1-year resident status

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida, a 13-year-old Thai girl who was orphaned in her own country, shows her passport after being granted resident status for one year in Japan. She now lives in Japan with her Thai grandmother and her grandmother's Japanese husband. (Kyodo)

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Japan to allow Thai girl to stay in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida (C), a 13-year-old Thai girl living in Japan with her grandmother, is congratulated by classmates at her junior high school in Tokyo on July 6 on reports that the Japanese government will reverse its earlier decision and grant her long-term residence status. (Kyodo)

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Thai girl applies for permanent residency to stay in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida (L), a 13-year-old Thai orphan living in Japan with her grandmother (R), prepares to enter the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on Aug. 9 to apply to change from short-term to permanent resident status. (Kyodo)

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Gov't to give Thai girl residence in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida, a 13-year-old Thai girl living in Japan with her grandmother, smiles at her junior high school in Tokyo on July 6 when told of reports that the Japanese government will reverse its earlier decision and grant her permanent residence status. (Kyodo)

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6,000 sign petition for Thai orphan fighting to settle in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida, a 13-year-old Thai orphan girl, speaks to reporters in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau building in Tokyo on July 5 after applying to the bureau for long-term resident status. She, along with her lawyer Satoshi Murata, also submitted a petition signed by over 6,000 people calling on the immigration authorities to grant long-term resident status. (Kyodo)

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Thai girl fights immigration bureau, seeks to settle in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mevisa Yoshida, a junior high school student in Tokyo living in Japan since February 2003, filed a suit June 29 seeking repeal of an immigration bureau's decision not to grant her permanent residence status. (Kyodo)