Whether you’re in Taiwan for a short visit, exchange study, language immersion, or an extended stay, having access to a local bank account in Taiwan can significantly enhance your experience. While short-term travelers can just use their home country’s ATM and credit card for the entirety of their …

No longer need a chop you can use a signature.

Just to share my experiences here, I followed OP’s steps and successfully opened a Chunghwa Post savings account as a foreigner without ARC, but it wasn’t all plain sailing and I’m fairly certain I would not have managed to get a bank account without having a relative living here with ARC who came a…

[image] TWL: As a final note, total cost to open the bank account for me was 70 NTD (excluding traveling costs to the bank and immigration office): 60 NTD for a chop, and the bank will deduct a 10 NTD fee when creating your account. Chunghwa charged you NT$10 to open an account? That’s surpri…

[image] TWL: As @anon24369109 mentioned, a chop is not required, but one advantage of a chop is that other people/friends/family can use your bank account with it if that might be useful for you Which is why so many people have had their accounts drained or used for money laundering.

Yes, the Chunghwa employee claimed the 10 NTD cost was “to check the newly created debit card”. The minimum initial deposit for a new bank account is 100 NTD, and Chunghwa immediately deducted 10, so I started with 90 NTD on my account.

[image] TWL: Yes, the Chunghwa employee claimed the 10 NTD cost was “to check the newly created debit card”. Never heard of this either…must be recent. Last time I opened a post office account for my daughter (6 years ago), there wasn’t any deductions. I deposited $1000 initially. [郵局艾玲 (3)…

So I just tried this at Chunghwa. Apparently they changed their policy and do NOT accept Uniform IDs anymore :frowning: Went to Bank of Taiwan and made an appointment, I have to bring dozens of documents… will update to say if it worked

[image] alx_romeo: So I just tried this at Chunghwa. Apparently they changed their policy and do NOT accept Uniform IDs anymore :frowning: I think I remember @Andrew (?) posting a link to the announcement in another thread… Edit: found it: [image] ‘Online’ Bank’s xenophobic reasoning for …

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Andrew September 4, 2025, 10:08am 11

Yeah, I did! Not sure whether they’ve yet “separately announced the timeline for resuming this service”.