I’m about 8 months from getting my APRC here. I want to bring my ill mother, who suffers from early dementia, to Taiwan to live with me here. I want to hire a foreign caregiver here to take care of her 24 hours a day.
Has anyone gone through this? Can someone point my in the right direction? I’m going to need to get a visa for her beyond the 90 days visa waiver that an US citizen gets, obviously. I have a non revocable trust set up for her in the USA that basically gives me authority over everything concerning her, but I don’t think that will hold on here in Taiwan, or will it?
Taiwan, as far as I remember and last I checked, (and despite how much Taiwanese tell me about how family is SOOO IMPORTANT in Taiwanese culture) does not have very good family-joining policies or retirement visas for foreigners in particular.
If your mother can get a resident visa by herself, she can stay. The most probable way might be as a company’s director. Language school wouldn’t work as they need to attend school.
If your mother is allowed to stay based on her relationship to you, it would be handled as a special case at NIA.
Taiwan is a super aging society. The island doesn’t need more old people.
Countries like Canada that allow for immigrants to bring in their old relatives (who’ve contributed nothing to the system) are watching their healthcare systems quickly collapse.
If by “Family” you mean a “LLC like” business structure where everyone just selfishly tries to maximize their profits (parents grinding their kids to make the biggest ROI when they retire / kids wishing for their parents to die ASAP so they can finally decide for themselves and also inherit the wealth etc.) then yeah “family” is the most important here
Though if you mean more like a group of relatives that love each other unconditionally and wish for each others best, but also respect personal choices then IMHO that’s way less important here than in the west…
If his wife is Taiwanese, maybe. If no other relative has used her name to hire one.
Hope OP can find a way. In the old country they just make sure you have enough funds and give the visa on family reunion basis. Again, Taiwan could be making a lotta $$$ and promoting employment in health and service sectors with a similar scheme, but “fear” stands in the way…
OP could consider to naturalize to get a dependent to come to Taiwan. Once the dependent has been here long enough and can stay on their own, you could try to resume your old citizenship.
it is possible if the dependent is a child of the OP, and don’t need to be a national.
and you maybe could try to resume the old citizenship on the same day you submit the proof of the renounciation of it. if the old country allows dual citizenship.
The best way? Set up a company and hire her as an employee… It sounds like fraud but I have screenshots of a licensed Taiwanese Chartered Accountant suggesting that on Facebook to someone who asked a similar question… So if you get in trouble I may be able to provide these screenshots
Just marriage and Children. Also you can do that on a normal working ARC too…
You can go the company manager route, which is what I did. She gets a 3 year work visa, renewable, and can apply for APRC after 5. But your company needs to meet 5m initial contribution + 10m annual revenue. Otherwise maybe hire as a specialist, with higher salary requirements but I haven’t looked at that.
No doubt the best way forward for the OP’s mother, an elderly woman with early dementia…
the fact we have to jump through these hoops is blood boiling.
If NHI is the issue, it is possible to give visa without NHI…
Same here. But… it seems that it is possible to get NHI this route. @jimbob132 can you confirm?
Also… as said before, CA Accountants seem to be suggesting it so you could hire one to do all the paperwork etc and throw him under the bus if things go wrong…
its probably a possible way to do it if you have a business, and if your parents still have some energy in them. To open a business to “employ” an octagenerian with dementia…
if we are already in the realm of fantasy, one can also convert their parents to Budhissm and get them a visa as a monk or a nun, the monastery will also take care of any long term care needs…
Missionary visa for devout christians? or perhaps donate a hospital to the TW government and get a TW passport…problem solved!
