My mother was born in Taipei, and was a Taiwanese citizen before emigrating to the US at the age of 7. She doesn’t currently hold a Taiwanese passport to my (or her) knowledge, and I believe she may have given it up in order to obtain her US citizenship.
However, her parents were clearly Taiwanese citizens at the time of her birth, and if I understand the law correctly, she is still eligible for citizenship (though perhaps not residence), right?
How and where would she go about starting to explore recovering her Taiwanese citizenship status? Can anyone point me to the right website, or someone who can provide legal advice around this?
For a person who loses the nationality of the ROC according to Article 11, if he/she now has a domicile in the territory of the ROC and meets the requisites provided in Subparagraph 3 and Subparagraph 4 of Paragraph 1 of Article 3, he/she may apply for restoring his/her nationality of the ROC.
The preceding Subparagraph shall not apply to naturalized persons and their children naturalized concurrently who lost the nationality of the ROC.
My mother isn’t actually sure whether she officially renounced her ROC nationality or not. She was likely fairly young when this happened, and it was a long time ago… Is there a way to check via public records?
I’m guessing not, but any chance these materials are available in English?
My mother isn’t actually sure whether she officially renounced her ROC nationality or not. She was likely fairly young when this happened, and it was a long time ago… Is there a way to check via public records?
I’m guessing not, but any chance these materials are available in English?
As for 1, does she have any old ROC(Taiwan) documents of herself or parents? If so, she can ask to HHR office in Taiwan and they can check her current status. Or, does she have close relatives in Taiwan? They might help her.
As for 2, I will look for English information and if find, post it here.
If I understand everything correctly, my mother would actually need to acquire for an ARC or permanent ARC before even beginning to recover her nationality?
passport of your mother or her parents, Taiwanese marriage certificate of her parents, transcript of their household registration or hukou (戶籍謄本 or 戶口名簿), their national ID cards, etc.