Mother is Taiwanese and I was born in the US and they think they registered my birth and added me to their HHR in Taiwan when we visited in the past. Does that mean I can skip the whole NWHOR and apply for a Taiwan Passport and ID?
Mother hasn’t returned in Taiwan in years so we assume her HHR expired and she has no interest and time in coming back to reactive her HHR to help with the process.
I know her Chinese name, ID Card No, and have a notarized translated photocopy of her Taiwan birth certificate.
Am I able to call up the HHR office to check if I’m on there? If so, am I able to reinstate myself and how if I don’t have any form of Taiwan ID at the moment?
Did you have a Taiwanese passport in the past?
Easiest way is to see if you have a National ID no entry in that passport. If so, you are already a NWHR.
HHR doesn’t expire, it just gets ‘moved out’ your mother will be automatically ‘moved in’ if she enters Taiwan with her Taiwan passport
TECO is responsible for the HHRO services for Taiwanese overseas. They should be able to check for you
If you were born overseas to at least 1 parent with household registration at the time you were born then you can immediately apply for the ‘permanent residence’ certificate at NIA then immediately apply for household registration. Household registration being moved in or out isn’t mentioned.
I think I may have had one, but it’s long gone (lost). So while I know my mother’s information (from old US immigration paperwork) I don’t know or have my own.
If you had HHR you would find it listed on your mothers HHR. What year were you born? I think it’s unlikely you were added to HHR unless you returned to live in Taiwan had a TARC then got HHR.
With her ID number you can at least get her last HHR information.
She has only travelled to Taiwan maybe 2 or 3 times in the past 30 years, and not recently. I don’t think she’s even in possession of her Taiwan passport anymore.
So I should contact TECO instead of the county her HHR is/was in? I think the main problem is proving I’m said person if I don’t have any form of Taiwan ID or documents on me besides identifying information on my mother. Would I just be able to sign a affidavit and hire a lawyer to obtain documents on my behalf?
Do I just obtain a copy of my HHR and use that to apply for a passport or ID?
Maybe figure out what old documentation you can find first cos to get any of those documents, HHR or new TW passport you kinda need to prove to them who you are first.
It’s a bit like this situation imho, you need to prove to the HHR office you or your mom are who you are first.
You are going to need your parents marriage certificate, and your birth certificate showing your parents names. Hopefully the birth certificate of your parents matches their passport names especially the Taiwan passport.
TECO afaik will not have access to HHR offices in Taiwan that’s why you need your mothers ID Card and if she has kept the expired Taiwan passport that too.
Also what year were you born as if it was too long ago you may not be able to get Taiwan citizenship. You need to have been born after February 1980. As @justintaiwan advised as long as you can prove your mother was an ROC citizen, had HHR before you were born, then you can get a new NWOHR passport enter Taiwan and stay a few weeks and get HHR and ID card here. You will need to have an address here to resigter to so maybe ask you mom if she has relatives here who could help out with that.
If you have not had a Taiwan passport before then you need to use NWOHR passport and enter Taiwan and stay for long enough to get the HHR and ID card. Also if you are male there is military service requirements for those under 36 years of age.
My son has the NWOHR passport but won’t use it to get his HHR and ID card until he passes the age for military service. 2 more years for him
You cannot do military service without HHR and ID Card.
I was hoping to skip all of that assuming that my birth was previously registered and I was added on her HHR where I’d just need to find a way to obtain my HHR record/document.
Your birth being registered overseas does not help. Have you ever had a Taiwan passport before? Have you traveled to Taiwan before?
It was not possible for you to have had HHR and ID card unless you moved back to Taiwan and lived here already. So yes, you need to get marriage docs, birth certificates, etc and come back and apply for HHR and ID when you have an address here.
My son is not registered on my HHR as he does not have ID card here only NWOHR passport. He needs to have HHR and ID card to be registered on my HHR.
In the late 1990s. She mentioned that I had a Taiwan ID or Passport before because we did stay in Taiwan for a short period of time, but I’ve never seen it.
I’ll try calling them soon, just waiting for a friend so they can help call and translate. But if I am listed under her HHR, wasn’t sure how I’d prove I’m that person.
Well if you have had Taiwan passport and ID card then you only need to get proof of that and get a new passport. If you already have ID card then you don’t need to activate HHR unless you move back here to live.
So you would also be registered on your mothers HHR. Your HHR name in chinese will have the English version of that on your Taiwan passport.
If your birth certificate does not list that name then you need prove with marriage certificate of your parents.
Also as you were born in the USA in the 1990’s and your father is not an ROC citizen then for sure you were not an ROC citizen when born. The law was changed in 2000 and backdated so those born after February 1980 could get ROC citizenship from their mother.
So if you mother returned here with you and you got HHR and ID card and Taiwan passport then there are records of that. Your mother should have all this information as she would have had to have supplied all the documents to get your HHR and ROC passport.
Gotcha, that makes sense. I assume I might have had a NWHOR Passport since we didn’t live in Taiwan for an extended period of time. I believe I only visited once or twice when I was younger so I don’t really recall.
I’ll still try calling HHR, but if I’m not registered I guess I’ll contact TECO next to see if they can find my NWHOR Passport record and what I’d need to provide to have it reissued/renewed?
Not possible if as you claim you had HHR and ID Card. So your information is not precise. Ask your mother for your Taiwan passport.
Are you sure you have been issued one before? How do you know you didnt use the US passport when entering and leaving Taiwan?
My English name isn’t a romanization of a Chinese name. Would they have automatically used a romanization of my Chinese name instead of my English name?
A large part of the issue is that my parents are divorced, and while I can obtain a copy of their marriage certificate my mother has since legally changed her name. She has made it clear that she doesn’t want to be involved or help me, so I can’t get her to update any documents.
You can have both a Chinese name and and lets say your American name from your fathers side. Even if your mother changed her name in the USA she may not have done so in Taiwan.
So my son on his NWHOR passport uses only his Chinese name and on his Australian passport a different name. His birth certificate only listed his Australian name as he was not an ROC citizen at birth. However when he was born and added to my ARC ( before I became a citizen ) his name on my ARC as a dependent used his Chinese name. He was born in Taiwan though and raised here. Pity your mother will not help. That makes it very difficult.
A Taiwan passport may have both your Chinese name and your American name also known as. I had this on my first Taiwan passport but had the foreign name removed on later passports.
By law in Taiwan your Taiwan passport must have your Chinese name on it. Do you know your Chinese name in both Chinese characters and English characters?