Mr. Y, an undocumented Filipino national: Project #3 to convey our voices

As part of our ongoing "Families Together!" campaign, we are sharing the voices of undocumented residents.
This time, we have Y, a vocational school student with Filipino nationality.
He and his mother continue to reside in Japan as irregular residents without a resident status.

"I don't have a visa."

I am a Filipino national and was born and raised in Japan. I live with my Filipino mother. My mother cannot write Japanese and speaks it poorly, but she raised me alone.
Neither my mother nor I have a resident status. When I was little, I went to the Immigration Bureau with my mother. I remember that I accompanied my mother without knowing what the place was like, and that she looked sad and distressed as she spoke to the interviewer. I started going to the Immigration Bureau to renew my provisional release when I was 16 years old. Foreigners like me would normally be detained, but I was released as a special case because I was going to school. Therefore, I have to renew my provisional release every month. I was put in the same position as my mother and realized the reality for the first time. I was born and raised in Japan, but I was in a position like a criminal. I was just living a normal life, but there were many restrictions and it was very painful and difficult.
Now, the immigration bureau is telling me to go back to the Philippines with my mother. I can only speak Japanese, and if I go to the Philippines, my dreams and the future I envision will be ruined.

There are many foreigners like us who do not have a resident status. Not all of them are bad people. I want more people in Japan to know about the lives of foreigners like us. We are living our lives now, working hard to obtain a resident status.