Divorce and Visa consequences - Enjoy the happy moments in life

[olm]

. Bist Du in Taipeh? Lass Mal n Bier trinken gehen.

Fu*k. Are you in Taipei? Let’s get a beer.

@Crypton334

@Myn

Does your salary enable you to apply for the gold card?

Get a lot of bonuses but the base salary is slightly under the requirements

As far as I remember, and how I got my gold card: if the yearly salary including Bonuses is OK, it’s fine. Don’t need to have the base salary on it’s own meet the limit.

[SuiGeneris]

With the quick change of attitude I can’t help but wonder if there is a bun in the oven from the other guy.

[Crypton334]

@olm

. Bist Du in Taipeh? Lass Mal n Bier trinken gehen.

Fu*k. Are you in Taipei? Let’s get a beer.

Ja bin ich. Gerne!

[yyy]

@slawa

Tell her you will sigh when you will get your APRC in a few years!

Why sigh when you can just be happy?

[slawa]

Ha! I still can edit, only 19h ago.

[tando]

@Crypton334

kinda have proof but probably not enough.

there may be a statute of limitation to bring a divorce due to her adultery to court. I’m not sure how the clock is ticking, but I’d ask to a lawyer about this.

It is possible that she would change her mind while you are waiting for your APRC. If you cannot use her adultery for a divorce, and she refuses a divorce, you would need extra time to get divorced.

You may also need to make sure that you can renew your ARC without problems.

[loser]

Reinvent yourself and don’t look back. You’re 23. You have your whole life in front of you.

[volv1992]

@Crypton334

What options do I have in order to stay here and keep the life I built?

Back on topic… ahem (soz)

My only (non-legal) advice would be to not let this event put a cloud over everything else that you have going in your life, it’ll work out, whether it be Taiwan or otherwise. I’ve had stuff happen in my life which has taken away some things I loved which was out of my control and I was a bit stuck with a combination of bitterness and inability to move on. It’s early days yet but however it must be, new doors always open, don’t stand in the threshold of the old ones (I’m bad with metaphors)

Some solid advice from fellow forumosa’s here

[nz]

@loser

You’re 23. You have your whole life in front of you.

Yeah, looking back on when I was 23… all my plans for life then have completely changed since then and I’m not even 30 yet.

My only warning is that NIA will come a’knocking when you renew your ARC to make sure that your marriage is legit. So there’s that if you’re looking to stay married for the sake of your residency.

[tando]

@nz

My only warning is that NIA will come a’knocking when you renew your ARC to make sure that your marriage is legit. So there’s that if you’re looking to stay married for the sake of your residency.

do nai accept a transcript of HHR as a proof of your marriage, or do they request spouse’s national ID card?

I guess a transcript is good, but can you get your spouse’s hhr transcript without spouse’s national ID?

Divorce and Visa consequences - Enjoy the happy moments in life

Can you get your spouse’s HHR transcript without her ID? I found you can get HHR transcript as a spouse, so you don’t need to worry about this.

[slawa]

@nz

My only warning is that NIA will come a’knocking when you renew your ARC to make sure that your marriage is legit. So there’s that if you’re looking to stay married for the sake of your residency.

I renewed and changed my marriage based ARC multiple times. Nobody ever visited us or asked questions.
But we have kids and NIA might do that only if they have some suspicion for marriage fraud.

[yyy]

@olm

As far as I remember, and how I got my gold card: if the yearly salary including Bonuses is OK, it’s fine. Don’t need to have the base salary on it’s own meet the limit.

Something to remember whether you apply for a gold card or not: the definition of wage (工資) is broad. With a few exceptions, if it comes from your employer automatically or as a reward for reaching a predetermined target, whether it’s called a bonus, an allowance, or any other name, the government will classify it as wage (and not make a distinction between that and salary).

[welcome]

@slawa

I renewed and changed my marriage based ARC multiple times. Nobody ever visited us or asked questions.

Same here. Never a visit, never any questions.

[BiggusDickus]

@welcome

@slawa

I renewed and changed my marriage based ARC multiple times. Nobody ever visited us or asked questions.

Same here. Never a visit, never any questions.

Yeah, I’ve never heard of that happening. Maybe if you piss someone off and they make a complaint?

[tando]

Can you get your spouse’s HHR transcript without her ID?

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I found you can get HHR transcript as a spouse, so you don’t need to worry about this.

[meishijia]

I was visited a few years ago, but I wasn’t in.

They never came back.

[nz]

@slawa

I renewed and changed my marriage based ARC multiple times. Nobody ever visited us or asked questions.

Everyone I know on a spousal-based visa has been visited by NIA. Sometimes really rude NIA officers go knocking on their neighbor’s doors when they show up unannounced and no one answers at the address on the ARC/HHR. (imagine that, you showed up unannounced). Makes the neighbors think there’s an immigration problem when the reality is it’s genuinely a routine check.

I also know someone from Macau who married a Taiwanese just to get residency. The Taiwanese was one of those who lives with the entire extended family. Naturally didn’t tell anyone about the sham marriage. NIA came a’knocking and the Macau person was deported and the Taiwanese fined an enormous sum of money.

Maybe I have a bad sample size…

[BiggusDickus]

This is really odd because nobody I know on a spousal-based visa has had a visit from the NIA, and I know a lot.

Maybe it’s location specific? I’m in Taoyuan.

[nz]

@BiggusDickus

Maybe it’s location specific? I’m in Taoyuan.

Now that you mention it, all of those cases were when I lived in Kinmen, so I’m sure the NIA literally had nothing else to do all day.