On my last A.R.C., they put my home address, which they haven’t done before. I don’t really like having this private information visible to anyone who looks at the card. Have they changed the rules, or can your employer decide which address goes on it? Which address do other people have on it?
My ARC has my home address on it, but I have a JFRV so maybe that’s different, if it has your home address where it should have your work address, it is a problem (for having the wrong work address). The only people who would look at your ARC are government officals, and occaisionly policemen, who have a right to know who you are and where you live. Who else would you show it to ?
I find it convenient if I ever have to give some my address, I can show them my ARC and let them copy it, instead of me trying to read it out for them.
All of my ARC’s have had my home address on them, whether they were work related or now like Fluffy a JFRV.
This is really no different from the locals ID cards also showing their registered residential address.
They always have your home address, and technically it’s an offence to have another one on it, or to not inform the police (and have your ARC amended) if you change addresses.
Brian
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I liked when mine had my home address on it. When the taxi driver hears Matchstick_man’s mumbled bad Mandarin it was easy to show a written address and get home.
Isn’t your home address as well as your work address normally on your ARC…and if you move you are required to update it.
your place of residence(where you live) is on your ARC
your work address is on your work permit
your place of residence(where you live) is on your ARC
your work address is on your work permit[/quote]
I have an South African friend who was fined in Chiayi for not having has correct home address listed on his ARC. The cop’s came to his building over a disturbance, found his ARC address wasnt where he was living. I think they took him to task 'cause he was black.
your place of residence(where you live) is on your ARC
your work address is on your work permit[/quote]
True, my mistake, mine only has my company’s name on the front of the ARC, right above my home address.
BTW the tax office refused to process my taxes until I had the correct address on my ARC
My first ARC had the address of a hostel on it, though I only lived in that hostel for 2 weeks.
My new ARC has the address of my husband’s university’s dormitory on it, but actually we live in an apartment.
My ARC has my school’s Chinese name and my personal address on it. No big deal. Your driver’s license has your personal address on it too, and since they do send a notice to the address on your ARC when your card is close to expiry it only makes sense for the address to be current.
I tried to update my ARC address in Banqiao. I took a taxi from work (230 each way). The little twisted fucker behind the desk wouldn’t do it. He wanted the ID of the owner of the house, a rental contract, household registration book etc. I called him a liittle bureacrat who shouldn’t be allowed near foreigners as he obviously has a huge problem with them. 12 years in Taiwan, never had a copper refuse to update my address. (How can you “prove” you live anywhere anyway? I can sign a rental contract for the Presidential Palace with a complete stranger - would that do? And why would I come in to change my address to a fictitious one? I mean they still have my old one on record. Gordon Bennet!)
Taipei FAP update it with a smile and a thank you for coming. Never had a problem with Taipei FAP. But in 1992 when I went to Banqiao cop shop to have my Aliens Proof of Lodgings Certificate (remember them?) filled out they were all as nice as ninepence, smoking, chatting, binglangs all round… how times have changed)
So fuckem. I tried.
Once I tried to update it at Taipei FAP, and they demanded a rental contract and the F***ers said the police would come to my house to check I really lived there. They didn’t really.
[quote=“hexuan”]I tried to update my ARC address in Banqiao. I took a taxi from work (230 each way). The little twisted fucker behind the desk wouldn’t do it. He wanted the ID of the owner of the house, a rental contract, household registration book etc. I called him a liittle bureacrat who shouldn’t be allowed near foreigners as he obviously has a huge problem with them. 12 years in Taiwan, never had a copper refuse to update my address. (How can you “prove” you live anywhere anyway? I can sign a rental contract for the Presidential Palace with a complete stranger - would that do? And why would I come in to change my address to a fictitious one? I mean they still have my old one on record. Gordon Bennet!)
So fuckem. I tried.[/quote]
Yes, that was my experience too. When I first applied for the ARC, they let me write anything on it. And when I wanted to update my address, they all of a sudden needed all sorts of documents and rental contracts etc. That’s the reason I never updated it either.