Hi everyone. First post, long time lurker. I’m going to move to either Taiwan or Australia, permanently, I was leaning heavily towards Taiwan until I read these old posts about how we can’t get our parents here even after naturalization. Is this still the case?
This is very important to me and could even be a deal breaker. I could live with renewable visit Visas for my parents. Also they can’t come here for work or other workarounds.
I’m also interested in the answer to this thread. My wife and I will be considering bringing her mom to Taiwan in a decade or so (although I realize that’s enough time for laws to change).
As I understand the law (keep in mind I only know as much as the average person who reads the paper), you have two options:
- Your parents can do a visa run every three months. This, of course, requires them to be in good enough health to get on a plane regularly… although they don’t have to fly far.
- If your parents are over 65, you might be able to claim them as a dependent. I’m really not sure how this works, or even if it’s true. Hoping someone else can chime in and confirm.
I am also interested to see if anyone knows more about this
I think this is on tax. You can claim old parents as dependants to get exemptions.
As far as I know, there is no way to get your foreign parents here with residency based on their relationship to you. Visitor visa to visit you is renewable, but the maximum length of a continuous stay here is 180d, or 1yr if you are a foreign special professional. After that they need to get a new visa at somewhere out of taiwan.
There are only two ways I can think of: 1) “Employing” them if you open a rep office, and 2) them getting residency under a student visa
No, parents were deliberately excluded from all these visa schemes. The fear was that old people would be too much of a burden on the national medical insurance system. Other countries (notably Malaysia) have retirement visas designed especially to attract such people, in hopes that they will spend their money there, but not Taiwan.
What Visa schemes are you talking about? Parents can’t take Chinese courses? I know that isn’t correct. As for Employing them, I have looked at the visa information and don’t remember seeing anything that excluded family members … But I didn’t look that hard at the time.
I think we are talking on a visa as a dependant. Except for parents taking care of minor children with ROC citizenship, foreign parents need to get their own visas.
Of course, parents could apply for student visas and employment visas in their own right; without being marked as a dependent, therefore the government wouldn’t ‘know’ that there is a family relationship necessarily. Once here five years, they can apply for APRC. Voila! A little bit of don’t ask/don’t tell may be required on your part, an attitude that in the West we are unfamiliar with. I’m not saying this will work, but getting a visa in their own right stand as the best chance. Bizarre, but true.
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Exactly my thoughts on the matter. Sometimes you just have to work the system.
I still wonder if you could hire them as an “employee” if you opened a rep office.
Do they have the qualifications needed to obtain work permits?
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Company also needs to meet a qualification.
So if I set up a company with NT$ 2 million I can get ARC for anyone I want?
From what I see it can be any company, right? like export/import or even a restaurant?
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We really do need the retiree visa. If they fear it would be a load on the NHI, then have them pay premium or/and a sizeable deposit. Easy peachy.
My Mom’s pension is way more than my salary here. same ailments as me: high blood pressure, a funny knee, bit on the plump side, meaning not much of a burden on the NHI. two problems: heck if she is going to study/work anymore and she needs long term visa, as we live to a 100. Imagine all the cash she could bring in with her shopping sprees and taxes to be collected.
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An easy solution would be just not to allow people on the Visa to get public insurance ( no NHI), they would have to get private insurance … Problem solved.
I just hope it happens at some point in the next five years - that is when I would need to make a decision. Mind you, my mom will be near 75 at that point, and may not be interested in any sort of move. I guess we’ll see.
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@Whatevah If you can qualify as a “Foreign Special Professional”, then I believe your parents could obtain a visa that would allow them to stay here for up to a year at a time.
From https://www.bli.gov.tw/en/sub.aspx?a=dF2WC9Capi0%3D:
Where a foreign special professional is hired to engage in professional work, and has been approved for residence or permanent residence by the National Immigration Agency, Ministry of the Interior, a lineal ascendant of said person may apply to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or one of its overseas missions for the issuance of a visitor visa, valid for one year, for multiple entry, for a stay of up to six months, without annotation by the visa-issuing authority of a restriction disallowing extension or other limitation. In case of need to continue the stay, then prior to the expiration of the time limit on the stay, said person may apply for an extension to the National Immigration Agency, Ministry of the Interior, without having to leave the State.
The total length of such stay is limited to a maximum of one year at a time, and is not subject to the six-month limitation of stay prescribed in Article 3 Subparagraph 7 of the Immigration Act.
Does that mean that if we have an APRC then our parents can stay with us? Because some of us had asked before, and nope. Not even with ROC nationality. Up to a few years back, there was no way to bring a foreign parent.
Nope. It is just for parents of foreign special professionals. I dont know what after their naturalization.
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So, are foreign special professionals the ones with Plum cards or what? You see my problem? These laws are shady as hell. If they say a foreig professional with an APRC, wouldn’t that be like me? Or do I need a special recognition? Is this a different category of APRC? Bt then it says not all foreign professionals have APRC. Confusing.