Hi folks,
Does anyone know if you need a job at the time you apply for the APRC? Or can you do it while on a job seeking arc?
3Q in advance for the replies
I’m currently trying to figure this out. Anyone has any information?
Someone ran into issues recently while applying for an APRC while being on a job-seeking Gold-Card extension:
I went to the Taipei City immigration office today and want to share some information just in case someone else needs it in the future.
You absolutely can apply for APRC while on a job-seeking ARC. However, you need a proof that your income in the previous year was at least 686160. There is no specific requirement saying that you need to be employed while submitting your application. If you’re not, you can simply skip the documents related to employment.
Could you clarify because I feel this can be read two ways:
- One reading is you need proof your income was 686160 to apply for APRC
- Another reading is you need proof your income was 686160 to apply for job-seeking ARC
Which did you mean?
This.
OK, so there is no longer a path to an APRC if you have 5M NTD in the bank as was previously the case, the only way to an APRC is with having a local job or ordinary payroll income in the 3rd year of your Gold Card.
I really wish there would have been a way to know they would just pull the rug out from under us by changing the rules at the end of my Gold Card. I never would have bothered with quitting my job and going to Chinese classes if I knew that meant I couldn’t even stay here in the first place.
This feels like Taiwan in a nutshell: public claims they want foreign professionals, but then you get here and can’t get a local job without being college-level fluent in Chinese, but if you take time off work to learn Chinese, now you can’t stay here because they changed some rule about income in the 3rd year of your GC anyway.
(4) Job seekers must also submit an explanation of their job search progress, how they will make a living during the job search period, and their livelihood plan after obtaining permanent residency, and submit specific supporting documents as per the explanation.
Seems its still in the updated instructions though they just ask for additional documents now. It might be the case the money should be in the account for one year but unsure.
Translation:
(2) Those who have held domestic movable and immovable property with an estimated total value of more than NT$5 million for more than one year (those who submit a deposit certificate of NT$5 million must also submit an explanation of the source of the deposit, the account deposit details for the most recent year and other supporting documents ) .
OK, thanks. I can’t even figure out what website has the official government information and of course I can’t read Chinese. I quit working so I could take Chinese classes full time, only to find out that may have ruined my ability to even get the APRC in the first place.
I’m seriously doubting that I made the right life choices at this point and maybe I’ll start trying to email the Talent Taiwan office so they know how this affects people? I won’t bother with NIA since I’m not in Taipei and can’t even apply for my job seeking visa until this time next year anyway, by which time they may have changed the rules again anyway.
Can you provide me a link to whatever website you found the information above? That way I know how to copy/paste the original Chinese for when I start asking questions. If I can solve this by just having the 5M NTD deposited for a year then I need to have it wired over immediately to line up with when I will be applying next year.
Do you have experience writing this? I’m currently collecting all my documents and the english-language website doesn’t mention anything about this. Neither did the people at the immigration when I went there last time.
Applicants have already reported being asked to submit such documents, it seems though they ask after the application is submitted but that might have changed this week. NIA have only updated the Chinese version, it’s been typical in the past that the English version isn’t updated until a few weeks later.
If that was before this week then that would have been the case then, it’s a very recent policy change.
What abt for taiwan spouse is ntd 5million still allow aprc?
Let me get this straight.
5M NTD in assets is still a pathway to APRC.
But without a job, you have to write a statement describing your job searching process? Is that interpretation fair?
I am kinda hoping to FIRE (retire early) and using the 5M NTD pathway to get the APRC. Without working at all in the past 3 years on the GC, would that kill my chances of getting the APRC even if I meet the 5M NTD requirement?
Also, can you point to me the statement in Chinese on their website stating that job seekers must write a statement describing their job search process?
Yeah, a Gold Card holder has reported this previously of being asked questions and needing to submit documentation.
(4)覓職者須另檢附說明書，說明覓職進度、覓職期間以何維生及申獲永久居留後之營生計畫，並依說明檢附具體佐證資料。
Thanks.
Interesting, not sure if they are asking this to ensure that I can support myself, which I obviously can no problem , or because they genuinely only want workers and not retirees. Kinda disappointing if it is the latter not the former, though I don’t blame them. It’s their country after all and they have a right what types of people would be in their best interest to let in.
A Gold Card holder who switched to a job-seeking ARC ans then applied for APRC reported receiving these questions a few weeks ago from NIA:
(一)請說明其他工作規劃並檢附相關佐證資料。
(二)有無相當財產或技能,足以在臺自立生活。
(三)如獲准在臺永久居留後營生計畫為何?
(i) Please explain your other work plans and attach supporting documentation.
(ii) Do you have sufficient assets or skills to support yourself in Taiwan?
(iii) What are your livelihood plans if you are granted permanent residency in Taiwan?
thanks!
I can answer 2 and 3 quite easily, since my assets and livelihood aren’t tied to any job.
It’s part 1 that is kinda iffy. Not sure if saying I don’t have a job would matter in this case. It never specified whether or not having (or planning to have) a job is mandatory, and you can’t work on the job seeking ARC anyways.
Just a general note: If you are able to extend your Gold Card before the APRC application, you don’t need to apply for a job-seeking ARC.
I’d guess that those questions are the result of having applied for a job-seeking ARC directly before applying for APRC.