There is no such thing as reciprocal treatment for naturalizing. You keep on harping on this and it simply does not exist. You want to naturalize then pay your dues. Renounce. It’s not hard to do is it. Don’t give me the but but but I have family overseas or I might need a visa to visit my country of birth or I might not get my previous citizenship back. Been there done that. You don’t need to tell me all these things. I understand them all very well.
Quite frankly at this point in time I don’t think about it one way or the other. It’s not my fight to change the law. You had your petition and as expected it failed miserably as I knew it would. We all know the current law and the “hoops” as you call it to naturalize. Far different proceedure than when I did so. So fast and efficient nowadays.
There is no pissing contest. I have never as you claim… shit on people who have tried and failed time and time again to get the renunciation law changed. Good luck to them I say. Just that the dream and the reality are different. Such is life. Show me one post where I have done so.
Problem is that some foreigners think all immigrants must stick together and live in the same echo chamber of how miserable their lives are here because they choose not to naturalize. You make your choice so live with that. Want a different outcome make a different choice. I also do not think the same way you do. Funny how north Americans like to advise others how we should do so.
I made a choice to make a different life in the wilderness. I don’t miss the 8 lanes of traffic 6 of which are moving slow. Much less stress.
You can live in anger over Taiwan not changing the law. It does not bother me one iota. I didn’t like the law either. It is remiss of you to believe I must be part of your cause. I’m more concerned that this is like a disease of your mind ( foreign passport dependency syndrome ) but I’m glad you can post here to get this off your chest. I’m not sure there is anu cure for your ailment. It seems there is no antidote for being a foreigner.
Maybe you can protest in front of the LY and tell them you are going on a hunger strike till they change the renunciation law. That might work.
Problem is the whole petition seemed to revolve around “woe is me” along with very weak reasoning as to why Taiwan should allow it.
A much better way the campaign could’ve been run is with a flyer (handed out at metros by foreigners who speak good Chinese in Taipei) with something around the lines of “We want to become Taiwanese but can’t. These are the reasons why and our countries don’t do this to Taiwanese” and have a QR code for people to go and sign the petition.
Also a website for the campaign providing stories and the real struggles of having an APRC along with internationalization of Taiwan would have been a much better way.
It flopped. Barely any foreigners bothered to sign… and the petition barely met the numbers. Although technically you could call it somewhat of a success?
That and… many people seemed to think that the law would change if the petition passed the numbers needed.
The renunciation requirement has been described as an embodying a fundamental national policy about citizenship. It’s not as important as alternative education (16 years) or artificial reproduction (25+ years) and counting. But it’s important enough that it could take a while.
I’m more patient than some about these things. It’s also possible that there could be some positive changes sooner than in ten years with a little luck. Right now is, to put it mildly, not a great time to be asking the Legislature for anything.
Who said there was? I don’t think anyone has, including myself. Please re read what you think I said and we can continue from there because you have fully misunderstood my point