Renewing JFRV ARC

[zender]

Good thing you always keep that one in your wallet.

[almas_john]

@zender

Good thing you always keep that one in your wallet.

Damn, you is funny! If I weren’t married, I’d dress you in a sheepskin and play roundup.

[Gilgamesh]

@Mordeth

To renew your ARC you need to show proof of an MMR vaccination. What about for JFRV?

I just renewed my JFRV two weeks ago and I didn’t need proof of any vaccinations. I did need to show them a water bill because my home address is different than the one on the household registration. The bill was in my wife’s name but they didn’t care about that.

[snowy]

Hi, I’m due to renew my JFRV (ARC) soon, could someone please confirm procedure. This is my first renewal, and there have been no changes in circumstances since first issued.

1. Household registration print from district admin centre
2. Current ARC
3. Passport
4. $3000 for 3 years

I’m assuming no health check required and I need not bring my wife’s ID or passport.

Is new ARC issued on the spot?
(Would like to avoid hassle of going to NII again to collect new ARC)

Thanks a lot

[jlick]

I’m also soon due for a renewal. I believe you also need to bring two passport sized photos. And I’m pretty sure you need to come back the next week to get the new card.

[scomargo]

They should be able to mail it to you for NT$26. Not sure if it’s sent registered mail or not. It’s a big trip for some people to make it to the NIA, so saving one trip to pick it up may well be worth the $26.

[snowy]

Thanks all.
The NT$26 postage is worth it, else I’ll have to take half day off work.

[twonavels]

@Maoman

I extended my JFRV ARC on Friday. Loooong wait - an hour and a half, but we got there just before lunch, so there were less people working while they rotated lunch breaks. We made the mistake of bringing the “short version” of our household registration, and they needed the detailed version. After waiting an hour and a half, my wife had to hop in a cab and go to another gov’t office to get the detailed version. Oh well, I’m good until 2010 now!

How do you ask for the detailed version? The one I had last time was just one page. Do you know what the detailed version is called in Chinese?
Thank you!
And, can you send somebody else to go pick up the new card?

[Okami]

I needed:
2 passport sized photos
Passport
Old ARC card
HHR form which was only one A4 paper
$3,000NT for 3 years

It took themn 2 weeks and then I picked it up. There is almost never a long wait at the Yuanlin NIA office in Changhua County

[Bu_Lai_En]

@twonavels

[quote=“Maoman”]I extended my JFRV ARC on Friday. Loooong wait - an hour and a half, but we got there just before lunch, so there were less people working while they rotated lunch breaks. We made the mistake of bringing the “short version” of our household registration, and they needed the detailed version. After waiting an hour and a half, my wife had to hop in a cab and go to another gov’t office to get the detailed version. Oh well, I’m good until 2010 now!

How do you ask for the detailed version? The one I had last time was just one page. Do you know what the detailed version is called in Chinese?
Thank you!
And, can you send somebody else to go pick up the new card?[/quote]

You can get them to post it.

[jlick]

The Taipei City office has photo machines downstairs, so you don’t need to run around to get photos before you go in. I think it was $120. You also need a photocopy of your passport. Again, there’s a photocopy machine already there.

For the household registration, you need the official printout from the household registration office, not the registry book kept at home.

[scomargo]

@Dragonbones

I found out today (the hard way) that the limit is one month. They did not let me renew because I came in just a couple days earlier than that limit. And they weren’t very nice about it, either. :s I explained that I’ll be out of the country most of Oct., and they wanted proof, which I hadn’t brought with me. Just FYI.

My ARC expires when I’ll be out of the country, and I’m leaving the country about one month before it expires. How early should I go get it renewed? I’m assuming it takes about two weeks for the new ARC to get issued. I can take a print out of my travel itinerary, so hopefully that’ll be enough proof of my travel plans. Should I go two months before the ARC expiration date, which is about 1 month before I leave on my trip?

Thanks for any advice. I tried a search, but this post quoted above was the closest I could find to my situation.

[Dragonbones]

You can give it a shot. Take tickets too, if you have paper ones. Be prepared to be told to return two weeks later to try again, or something similarly stupid.

[Gilgamesh]

When I’ve gone to renew my JFRV, it took about fifteen minutes. If I recall corrrectly, we just went in with the family record book, paid our three thousand dollars and a few minutes latter my JFRV was renewed. I think it’s longer if you need to change from the paper card to the new cards.

[Dragonbones]

@Gilgamesh

… we just went in with the family record book,…

In my experience, what Jlick says above is correct:

For the household registration, you need the official printout from the household registration office, not the registry book kept at home.

When requesting the printout, ask for the 戶籍謄本 hu4ji2 teng2ben3.

[Gilgamesh]

True, we had to go to the registration office to get the copy of the family registration. Once we had this, which only took a few minutes, it was off to the foreign affairs police and fifteen minutes later my JFRV was renewed.

[Mucha_Man]

@scomargo

@Dragonbones

I found out today (the hard way) that the limit is one month. They did not let me renew because I came in just a couple days earlier than that limit. And they weren’t very nice about it, either. :s I explained that I’ll be out of the country most of Oct., and they wanted proof, which I hadn’t brought with me. Just FYI.

My ARC expires when I’ll be out of the country, and I’m leaving the country about one month before it expires. How early should I go get it renewed? I’m assuming it takes about two weeks for the new ARC to get issued. I can take a print out of my travel itinerary, so hopefully that’ll be enough proof of my travel plans. Should I go two months before the ARC expiration date, which is about 1 month before I leave on my trip?

Thanks for any advice. I tried a search, but this post quoted above was the closest I could find to my situation.

So what happened in the end? I too will be out of the country when my ARC expires and so need to renew it beforehand.

[scomargo]

@Mucha_Man

@scomargo

@Dragonbones

I found out today (the hard way) that the limit is one month. They did not let me renew because I came in just a couple days earlier than that limit. And they weren’t very nice about it, either. :s I explained that I’ll be out of the country most of Oct., and they wanted proof, which I hadn’t brought with me. Just FYI.

My ARC expires when I’ll be out of the country, and I’m leaving the country about one month before it expires. How early should I go get it renewed? I’m assuming it takes about two weeks for the new ARC to get issued. I can take a print out of my travel itinerary, so hopefully that’ll be enough proof of my travel plans. Should I go two months before the ARC expiration date, which is about 1 month before I leave on my trip?

Thanks for any advice. I tried a search, but this post quoted above was the closest I could find to my situation.

So what happened in the end? I too will be out of the country when my ARC expires and so need to renew it beforehand.

I will know the answer to this question in 19 minutes, and I’ll post it below.

[scomargo]

@Muzha_Man

@scomargo

@Dragonbones

I found out today (the hard way) that the limit is one month. They did not let me renew because I came in just a couple days earlier than that limit. And they weren’t very nice about it, either. :s I explained that I’ll be out of the country most of Oct., and they wanted proof, which I hadn’t brought with me. Just FYI.

My ARC expires when I’ll be out of the country, and I’m leaving the country about one month before it expires. How early should I go get it renewed? I’m assuming it takes about two weeks for the new ARC to get issued. I can take a print out of my travel itinerary, so hopefully that’ll be enough proof of my travel plans. Should I go two months before the ARC expiration date, which is about 1 month before I leave on my trip?

Thanks for any advice. I tried a search, but this post quoted above was the closest I could find to my situation.

So what happened in the end? I too will be out of the country when my ARC expires and so need to renew it beforehand.

Okay, I just called the Banqiao NIA office, and the guy said it’s no problem to renew before my trip as long as I have my regular documents (passport, household registration, etc.) as well as my airline ticket information. That can be a regular airline paper ticket or a printout of an e-ticket.

He recommended that I go renew the ARC 2 weeks before my trip so I can have enough time to pick up the ARC before I leave.

In summary, it looks like they will let you renew more than one month before the expiration of your ARC, provided you have proof of your reason why you need to do so.

[Mucha_Man]

@scomargo

[quote=“Muzha Man”][quote=“scomargo”][quote=“Dragonbones”]I found out today (the hard way) that the limit is one month. They did not let me renew because I came in just a couple days earlier than that limit. And they weren’t very nice about it, either. :s I explained that I’ll be out of the country most of Oct., and they wanted proof, which I hadn’t brought with me. Just FYI.

My ARC expires when I’ll be out of the country, and I’m leaving the country about one month before it expires. How early should I go get it renewed? I’m assuming it takes about two weeks for the new ARC to get issued. I can take a print out of my travel itinerary, so hopefully that’ll be enough proof of my travel plans. Should I go two months before the ARC expiration date, which is about 1 month before I leave on my trip?

Thanks for any advice. I tried a search, but this post quoted above was the closest I could find to my situation.[/quote]

I’ll be going tomorrow so I’ll post how it went. I already have a plane ticket showing my departure so they really can’t refuse me or I won’t be able to get back in the country. I leave My18, my ARC expires June 30 and I return July 18th.
So what happened in the end? I too will be out of the country when my ARC expires and so need to renew it beforehand.[/quote]
I will know the answer to this question in 19 minutes, and I’ll post it below.[/quote]