A phone call from local police officer on day of arrival to the cell # you provided to the on-line registration form before boarding plane. Just informal chat and you can ask any question, concern you have.
He/she will ask if you have LINE account with that #. You might as well set up a LINE account if you do not. That way, CDC’s LINE account will auto-add you for daily uplifting messages. He/she may ask to add your LINE to their LINE account. Just a friendly gesture.
They will send, if you want, a thermometer that is the size of a credit card that you press to your forehead. It is for taking your temperature every morning.
You will receive a text message from CDC at 10am asking to answer “1”, “2”, or “3”, depending on how you “feel”.
You will receive auto-LINE message at the same exact time, asking you to fill out a form in which you type in your temperature.
That’s about all.
This is the test if you can handle being in prison for a while. 
For exercise, do lots of pushups, walking in place with knees lifted up to hip-height.
Your family can deliver food to you (fruits, etc.); otherwise, ubereats or food panda.
There’s a flow chart hiding in here somewhere.
The new arrivals have to download an app for further info/communication at the airport.
Please note Chinese phones like Huawei have trouble with this app.
So do Safari on iPhones (have trouble with government website)
I’m kind of in the same boat. I’m an APRC holder and my husband wants to come to Taiwan in late September. I sent emails to the Houston and DC offices with no response yet. We never bothered with getting him an ARC because he never wanted to stay in Taiwan for more than a few months. I think I’ll try the email blast.
I found this with google for the teco offices. It’s going to be my email list.
Hope it works.
Some complicating factors - factors that affected me only - were that I worked with a single official in Houston. I think that like most people this person was frightened of covid19, and they may have overreacted a bit. That overreaction may also be responsible for delays in responding, at least in part.
Here’s what I mean by “overreact.” I was contacted by the official assigned to my case on, iirc, a Thursday, which was the day after sending an email to Houston and Chicago TECO offices.
The official encouraged me to get my application submitted by the next day (Friday), explaining that beginning the next week the Houston office would be open only on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9am to noon. Officials would be working from home, but visas could only be issued those six hours.
The next week the official assigned to my case developed a fever on Tuesday and didn’t report to the office all that week. The following week my official developed sore shoulders, and didn’t report to the office all that week. The next week the office was closed entirely because someone not with TECO but within the building developed covid19. Etc, etc.
I hope things have opened up by now, but in late March and in April the gears of TECO ground very slowly indeed.
Best of luck!
Better call.
Which airline has been successfully flying out of Taiwan? Eva? I also so saw Emirates but idk if they will cancel on me in September. I need to get to the UK for university.
I know people who flew China air to Narita.
The Kansas City office moved to Denver several years ago, so this may be a bit out of date.
Get the list from www.mofa.gov.tw
There is a map and info page.
Chinese website better than English
Check the TECOs FB pages too.
Well there have been like 6 representative offices affected by COVID, with several MOFA, MOE and MOC people down with the virus. So cautious is the way to be. They interact with too many people and in the West most places, even doctors, have been too cavalier, not as careful as in Taiwan.
When I went in for my appointment at my local TECO, they weren’t wearing masks (legally mandated in my state currently). They put one on to come out and meet with me, but kept taking it off to cough(?)
(I got tested, negative thankfully)
Based on my recent experience, TECO SF takes a few days to respond to emails. TECO NY also has responded to my sister in a timely manner. Try emailing either of them or calling. Sometimes it takes non-stop dialing to finally get someone to answer though.
China Airlines have a page in their COVID section listing where they are flying to over the next couple of months and the dates.
Location?
They are sent masks, no lack of equipment, in theory.
Denver. Definitely no lack of equipment, they’re available for purchase at drugstores here.