I am a US citizen married to a Taiwanese woman. We recently had a son and I am now having trouble getting an ARC for my son. My son was born in Taiwan and so naturally he wouldn’t have an entry stamp on his passport nor would he have a visa.
I went to the police station to process his ARC and was denied because my son doesn’t have a visa. They advised me to go to the Ministry of Foreign affairs to see if I can get a visa without leaving the country. MOF told me that they’re not able to give me a visa and told me I need to leave the country in order to get a visa.
Then MOF told me my son won’t be able to leave the country because he doesn’t have an entry stamp and told me to process a Taiwanese passport. They told me he is elligible to get one being born in Taiwan and having a Taiwanese mother. Anyway, to make a long story short, they told to get a taiwanese passport and leave the country on that passport. Get a visa for my son and process an ARC for my son when I return. WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD I NEED AN ARC IF I HAVE A TAIWANESE PASSPORT IS WHAT GETS ME.
If all possible, i would like to avoid getting a taiwanese passport for my son. Are there other ways i can go about getting an ARC for my son?
There is no way to do what you want now. Your son is an ROC citizen and must use an ROC passport the first time leaving Taiwan. If he subsequently enters on a foreign passport he can be considered a foreigner and apply for an ARC. I assume the point of not wanting an ROC passport is related to military service. Please be aware that using a foreign passport does not exempt your son from military service either, and the ROC Nationality Law does not permit him to renounce ROC nationality until he has fulfilled military service. There are legal ways to avoid military service once he is an adult by living outside Taiwan and limiting visits to no more than four months at a time.
The only other way to avoid this is for the birth to occur outside of Taiwan and not registering him in household registration.
would military service be the only reason to do it like that? Or do you have more good advises/reasons NOT to put the child on the household registration?
[quote=“Asahi22”]I am a US citizen married to a Taiwanese woman. We recently had a son and I am now having trouble getting an ARC for my son. My son was born in Taiwan and so naturally he wouldn’t have an entry stamp on his passport nor would he have a visa.
I went to the police station to process his ARC and was denied because my son doesn’t have a visa. They advised me to go to the Ministry of Foreign affairs to see if I can get a visa without leaving the country. MOF told me that they’re not able to give me a visa and told me I need to leave the country in order to get a visa.
Then MOF told me my son won’t be able to leave the country because he doesn’t have an entry stamp and told me to process a Taiwanese passport. [/quote]
I wonder what advice the MOFA would be giving to parents of new born kids where neither parent are Taiwanese citizens, and this must happen from time to time. I can see that the lack of an entry stamp could cause an issue, but a birth certificate from the hospital should explain that with out to much of a problem.
If the child was born in Taiwan, and one or both of the parents has a Taiwan ID card, then you should go to the local Household Registration Office and register the child’s birth.
I can’t see any reason why you would hesitate to do this. (I have been living here for several decades and I am aware of all the legal ramifications of registering the child in this way.)
After the registration, you can get an ROC passport for the child.
[quote=“Traveller”][quote=“Asahi22”]I am a US citizen married to a Taiwanese woman. We recently had a son and I am now having trouble getting an ARC for my son. My son was born in Taiwan and so naturally he wouldn’t have an entry stamp on his passport nor would he have a visa.
I went to the police station to process his ARC and was denied because my son doesn’t have a visa. They advised me to go to the Ministry of Foreign affairs to see if I can get a visa without leaving the country. MOF told me that they’re not able to give me a visa and told me I need to leave the country in order to get a visa.
Then MOF told me my son won’t be able to leave the country because he doesn’t have an entry stamp and told me to process a Taiwanese passport. [/quote]
I wonder what advice the MOFA would be giving to parents of new born kids where neither parent are Taiwanese citizens, and this must happen from time to time. I can see that the lack of an entry stamp could cause an issue, but a birth certificate from the hospital should explain that with out to much of a problem.[/quote]
If both parents are foreigners and one of them has an ARC then the child obtains a passport thru the parents. The child’s name can be added to the parent’s ARC without the child having to leave Taiwan. I did this for my son.
As for the OP… His child is an ROC citizen and must apply for an ROC passport then leave Taiwan. Then if the child wants to use an ARC to apply for a full visitor visa and then apply for an ARC based on one parent’s residency … such application can either be thru the ROC parent or thru the foreign parent (if that foreign parent has an ARC).
My son lived in Australia and came back to live with me. By then I was an ROC national ( confusing the FAP ) but his ARC was issued on the basis that his ROC father ( that would be me ) was living in Taiwan. I was a single parent and had no issues getting his ARC issued as he entered Taiwan on his Australian passport with a full visitor visa. He did not need to leave Taiwan to get his ARC processsed.