Uzbekistan is one of the countries where JFT-Basic is administered and the principal Central Asian participant in the Specified Skilled Worker route.
A growing market means less settled norms
Where a route is newly established, the intermediaries around it are not yet well known and the practices are not yet settled. That puts more of the verification burden on you.
Before you pay anybody anything:
Check the agency is licensed for overseas recruitment, and that it will name the employer, the location and the work.
Get the total cost in writing, itemised, including anything to be repaid from future wages. Large up-front fees financed as debt against your earnings are the pattern behind the problems this system is known for internationally. See agency red flags.
Confirm the test counts. The SSW language requirement is JFT-Basic 200+ or JLPT N4+. Other Japanese tests do not satisfy it. See which Japanese exams count.
Confirm the field is open. Fields have intake caps and caps close — food service has been suspended to new applications since April 2026. See the SSW fields.
Finding your centre
Use Prometric’s Uzbekistan pages for Specified Skilled Worker tests rather than the global Prometric site.
The centre list appears during the booking flow, not before it. You have to start a reservation to see the venues, and you can back out before paying.
Capacity is concentrated in the main cities; budget travel and, for a long journey, a night’s accommodation.
The skills test, first
As in every smaller market, your field’s skills evaluation test is likely to set your timeline rather than your Japanese. It may run infrequently, or not in Uzbekistan.
Find out when and where it runs before you plan your language test, and remember that JFT-Basic results carry a validity window for visa purposes — passing long before the rest of your application is ready is a real risk. See the skills test explained.
The language material
Our guides are in English and the site itself is published in six languages. If English is not comfortable for you, work through the practice test regardless — the questions are Japanese, and the section breakdown is a number that needs no translation.
Centres, fees, dates and payment methods are set locally and change. Your own country’s Prometric pages and the Japan Foundation are the sources that bind. Use them for anything you are about to pay for.
What does not change
Wherever you sit it, the exam is identical: four sections, about fifty questions, sixty minutes, scored 10 to 250, and 200 is the pass. The sections are not separately timed, and there is no per-section minimum — only the total counts.
That means every guide on this site applies to you regardless of where you are. Start with what 200 points actually means.
Before you pay for anything
Find out where you stand. Our free practice test covers all four sections, reports by section, takes about fifteen minutes, and works on an inexpensive phone. It costs nothing, which is more than can be said for discovering the answer at the test centre.
Two full-length, timed tests in the same week, both at 200 or above. Then book.