Sorry in advance for a niche/complicated question.
Detailed Question: Has anyone successfully gotten a Taibaozheng (台胞證 台胞证), AKA “taiwan compatriot card” after the 2024 Taiwan Law change for NHWR stopped the 1 year residency requirement in Taiwan (for Dual Nationals)?
Why I am asking: With the new process, I will get my ID and hukou after less than a month in Taiwan. Then I want to apply for the Taibaozheng (while physically in Taiwan) to go to Mainland China (PRC). Will the fact that I have been in Taiwan less than a year create an issue with the Taibaozheng application?
Answer I am looking for: Anyone who has successfully gotten the Taibaozheng who is a dual national who (1) got the NWHR under the post-2024 process and (2) got the Taobaozheng within 1 yr of getting NWHR
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Travel agent who has seen these applications go through.
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Anyone who has been denied or asked for extra documentation.
Why it might be different from a normal Taibaozheng application: The old (pre 2024) process required 1yr or more time in Taiwan and possibly a TARC or ARC process.
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BONUS entry to PRC question: Also, if you are a dual national (Taiwan and USA, for example) who has entered PRC under the non-Taiwan passport, I assume PRC has your biometric data. So, they will see the switch from non-Taibaozheng and then to Taibaozheng. Any issues on entry at a PRC-China airport, if their facial detection sees previous entry under two different passports/documents for two different countries?
I have a friend who’s a nwohr who got a taibaozheng. But you should know this document is issued by the prc, so all you can do is take your passport and id card to apply at a travel agent.
@Taiwan_Luthiers Interesting, can you get a Taibaozheng as a nwohr? I always thought HHR is required. A 戶籍謄本 is one of the required documents if I remember correctly.
All these questions asked and answered before. You can use the search function. PRC requires you have HHR and ID card when to get the 台胞证. PRC cares not how long you have had it.
PRC cares nothing about what other citizenship you have. You are not a citizen of China. Lot’s of people who are dual citizens with ROC and elsewhere have no issues getting a Taibaozheng.
All of my passports have different names.
If you only have NWOHR and no HHR or ID you need to apply for a different permit in person outside of Taiwan. You can do so at the China Embassy in Manila. They may require you to have a TARC.
This is not correct. You need HHR and ID card and does not matter how long you have had HHR and ID card. I got my HHR and ID Card and got my TBZ within two weeks of doing so and went to China.
Already answered that NWOHR cannot get one. Needs the different China travel document I posted.
@Chongman99 My son is NWHOR living in Australia. Australian citizen. He under the new law can now come to Taiwan and get his HHR and ID card in a few weeks like you as his mother has HHR and ID when he was born. No longer needs a TARC.
As soon as he gets HHR and ID he can apply for the TBZ. For time being he uses his Australian passport to enter China. His Australian name and his name on his NWOHR passport are totally different. My son was born in Taiwan lived here as a foreigner on an ARC as he could not have ROC nationality when he was born as I was a foreigner at the time. I naturalized later on.
Not what you wrote at all. FFS you always do this. Get caught with your pants down making incorrect claims then it’s I meant something else or better yet you didn’t know. Why don’t you just stay out of important legal topics you have had no personal experience in.
If you have HHR and ID you do not have NWOHR passport.
Just like your claim that white westerners who naturalize are being refused a TBZ cause you heard it on one of your “friends” grapevines.
no shit, he is entering as a national, of course he won’t get foreign consular assistance.
TBZ is a proof of “chinese” nationality for China. entering on that you enter as a Chinese national, and China has a quite strict master nationality rule, so if you have Chinese nationality (including TW nationals entering on TBZ) then that’s it, you are just that.
Do you really think it would matter which passports you enter on? If china cares about master nationality, then as far as china is concerned you’re a national if you’re a Taiwan citizen or national, I doubt the passport you enter on would make a difference if china wanted to detain you.
Consular protection? lol No he does not get protection as he is not a diplomat. You mean consular assistance, which if China wants to make it so means nothing. As many have found out. There are US citizens who cannot leave China as their parents were accused of crimes in China and fled to the USA.
You seem not to have any idea in real life what consuler services can be offered overseas. Have you ever worked as a diplomat providing consular assistance, bring those in prison overseas their Easter or Xmas letters and gifts from relatives back home? Or helped them with advice to get a lawyer or translator?
There are more Americans detained in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) than anywhere else in the world.
until you don’t make a declaration of change of nationality, for China if you are a chinese national (including HK, MO and TW ppl) you will always be a chinese national
I am the OP. Thanks all for the confirmation. I also went to the travel agency at Taipei Main Station and they said they see cases like this all the time and they don’t care at all about time in Taiwan. 1 day or HHR and you can apply.
PRC could always deny an application for any reason or ask for more documents, but the counter travel agent said they only rarely see additional document requests (and then only for people born in uncommon countries). They did not say they have seen any denials.
Bonus info: that agency told me 12 biz days is the standard turnaround time
