I’m a citizen of two countries, neither of which is Taiwan, but never bothered getting a passport for the second until now.
Now I’m curious as to whether I could change the passport/nationality associated with my ARC. Does anyone know if that would be possible? Would it be a pain? Would it effect my APRC eligibility?
My guess is that all I would need to do is use the new passport the next time I renew my ARC, and that it wouldn’t effect my ability to get an APRC in any way, but I can’t confirm that. I’d love to get a more definitive answer, perhaps even from someone who has already done the same.
I don’t think it’s that simple, I guess that you need to provide all documents you had to get from the original country, stamped and notarized. Redo the whole process.
That seems odd, given that the only new document is the passport. It’s not like birth certificates, marriage certificates, or anything else has changed. Plus, I’m obviously the same person, particularly given that I still have the first country’s passport…
That said, it is Taiwan, so I can’t say I’d be surprised if that’s the case…
Fair, but if I’ve been a resident of Taiwan for almost five years, presumably Taiwan has a pretty good sense of whether I’ve been up to no good. And, since this would create records connecting both passports to me, I would think it would be a rather poor way of trying to hide something.
Plus, I’m reasonably confident Taiwanese officials are aware of the prevalence of dual-citizenship, and the circumstances under which it can be acquired.
That said, government policy, regardless of the government, isn’t exactly known to always be consistent with logic.
It’s difficult to add an additional nationality once the ARC has been issued, though I am aware of some cases where a fine of a few thousand NTD resolved the issue. However if you haven’t applied for your initial ARC yet, you should be able to declare all citizenships without problems.
The good news: at least as far as APRC is concerned, changing nationality is officially supported as of last year.
The bad news: the document requirements are nonsense and I don’t know what would satisfy them.
I could not get a straight answer out of them what “sufficient evidence” is. Just some sort of document that says citizen of country A is also citizen of country B. It’s literally immigration’s job to decide if someone is the legitimate holder of a passport or not.
I know people who have done it more than a decade ago. Its not something new.
There was before never a requirement to list all your nationalities for an ARC. This is a recent thing.
Taiwan Immigrations job cannot determine if you are the legitimate holder of foreign passports. Only the issuing government has that authority. All my friends did is present the other passport that had matching date of birth. In their cases their passport names were also the same. Names do not have to match, nor does place of birth as many countries have place of birth written differently. Some list country, some the city you were born in, some list only the suburb or village.
Well I mean sure, they can’t 100% determine, but if they can determine that one passport I used to enter the country is mine, then they can use the same metrics to determine if the other one is mine. This was in person, not over the phone, and I had both passports with me. Both had identical information. The guy refused to process without some document from one of the governments. I’d push further but he got this printed document out so I backed off given that he didn’t pull that rule out of his ass.
And like you said, only the issuing government can truly verify that I am a holder of a certain passport. So how can I get a document that certifies this for two passports?
Birth Certificate does not prove ones nationality. I have a nationality through a grandparent and the names from one generation to another are different. My parent obtained the nationality from their parent but was as born in a different country which at the time did not have it’s own citizenship. So people born there were considered subjects of a third country.
