Going through my passport and I noticed Taiwan immigration issued entry stamps if you hold an ARC and enter from Hong Kong (and that egate doesn’t seem to work). No entry stamp if entering from other countries based on my experience and I remember egate working. Anyone else notice this or is it just coincidental?
What do you mean? I always get an entry stamp if I don’t use the egate.
When I’ve gone to a manned gate entering/exiting I’ve got a stamp.
I see, I thought it was related to HK/China. I wonder if a TW passport holder also gets a stamp.
Yep if you clear immigration through a human Taiwan passport holders get stamped as well
Curious why they need to do that if everything is electronic. I was thinking it might cause confusion to a different country’s immigrations if you use e-gate to exit Taiwan and there is not a matching exit stamp. The other countries where I had PR don’t stamp my passports.
I wonder this too. But I’m sure pretty much every country has electronic records and a lot still stamp.
Australia phased out stamps years and years ago for everyone. Even visas are not physically in a passport.
They even take fingerprints when going through a human gate with an APRC. You’d think they’d have mine by now.
Last time I went to Japan I got stamped in, but was let out via e-gate so no exit stamp.
Probably comparing with the last set to check they match
I’ve never used Taiwan egates. My Taiwan passport is stamped for entry and exit. Sometimes carefully examined to make sure it’s genuine lol
True. However one can pay a fee to get a visa label in a passport. This helps people from countries where getting visa’s is difficult to show other countries they have a valid Australian visa.
Nope. As I have written on this forum, all my passports have a different name. I leave Taiwan on ROC passport, if going to Philippines or Australia enter on my Australian passport using a different name.
Never been an issue that my Australian passport has no entry exit stamps for Taiwan. Most countries I just use my ROC passport, except China lol
Are entry stamps different for ARC holders? I’m wondering if a stamp that only says ‘admitted’ is only for ARC holders and the other ones say 'visa exempt ’
Thank you, I’d heard that now there were the same but if yours is from 2018 I guess they must still be different
I don’t know if there was any change after 2018 - maybe someone else can comment who has a later visa-free stamp…?
Found these news articles:
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/4087401
https://en.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2004555
We just need to establish the independent Republic of Danshui so we can finally get land stamps.
One for car
One for MRT
One for walking