The approval process takes three to five business days to complete. Please plan accordingly.The request to out-process thru the Joint Service Vehicle Registration Office using a special power of attorney letter is submitted to the JSVRO on Camp Foster. It's sole purpose is for out-processing while leaving a SPOA to another person to sell your vehicle. Only submit this letter for emergency use or situations out of the owner's control. Routine PCS or situations of poor planning
will not be approved.
Prerequisites
If Approved:
You may go to your local Legal Services Center with the intended SPOA holder, the approved request and sign a "Rotating Special Power of Attorney". In the event that the owner cannot get a Rotating SPOA any other Special Power of Attorney will be accepted as long as it meets the following requirements/
- 3 signatures (Owner's signature, SPOA holder's signature, & notary signature)
- Include the following two paragraphs:
"this agreement includes no power of substitution. The Agent cannot give a third person a Power of Attorney over the above vehicle. It is further understood by the below-signed parties that this is the only Power of Attorney over a motor vehicle being left on Okinawa, Japan that the Agent is authorized to hold until the above vehicle is properly disposed of."
"TERMINATION: unless sooner revoked or terminated by the Principal, this Power of Attorney shall become NULL and VOID on the soonest of: (i) ninety (90) days from the date first shown above: (ii) the expiration date for either Government of Japan inspection or Japanese Compulsory insurance coverage (JCI): or (iii) the expiration date for Property Damage Insurance coverage (PDI).
To receive the maximum benefits of the SPOA, make sure the vehicle has a minimum of 90 days worth of Property Damage Insurance (PDI) and 90 days left on the Government of Japan (GOJ) Inspection. If these requirements are not met then the Rotating SPOA will expire with the GOJ inspection or the PDI policy, which ever expiration date comes first.
Request to Outprocess with SPOA example letter
All Special Powers of Attorney must include the verbiage as shown here: Rotating Special Power of Attorney Format