Seems like a lot of websites state once you apply for TW citizenship, you can’t leave the country for a year. Is this accurate or am I misinterpreting?
For example, “You will first apply for a Taiwan Area Residence Certificate (TARC) that functions similar to an ARC and then live in Taiwan for an additional one year, without departure”
It was changed to 335/365 days.
You can still leave but it will delay your process to household registration
It’s wrong. One can leave, but then getting HHR & ID might take longer.
It’s nonsense. There has never been any rule preventing a naturalized person with a TARC from traveling. People who claim this are talking out of their arse. Also this has been covered in this and many other threads.
Traveling only affects the time it takes to get HHR and ID card.
That is not what the OP is asking. He is asking is it true one cannot travel at all for one year not how long it takes to get HHR and ID Card.
A Forumosa member who never naturalized has been spewing this nonsense all around the place for many years. When called out its always a “misunderstanding” Right.
I flagged the posts and was basically told to get lost
@Marco this is what I keep talking about. There are some forumosans who have posted this before.
Yet for one reason or another they are never removed
Yet they have never naturalized or had a TARC.
@justintaiwan got his TARC and NWOHR passport issued in Australia. So how can it not be possible he can not be allowed to travel for one year? lol
It is either completely inaccurate or you are misinterpreting.
From day one you can get an NWOHR ROC passport to leave on.
For some countries that passport is more powerful than the original.
For others, you can still travel to many places and those that offer visa free to those with ID cards will give you a visa easily if you have a TARC.
Don’t let anyone BS to you. You can travel freely and not worry.
Posting wrong information is only enforced in certain forums e.g. Legal
You can flag such posts to let an admin have a look at it.
I bet none of those websites are from the ROC Government which says otherwise? lol
Maybe you can link some of these websites?
One can take two trips in first year and as long as you stay 335 days can get HHR and ID. So you could take two 14 day trips and not be affected.
I edited the post to include that.
Thanks. For the OP’s question it is important to share factual information.
Perhaps move all citizenship threads to the legal forum then. After all these are legal affairs.
Your second trip since naturalized and got TARC? Two months ago you naturalized and got you TARC and NWOHR passport?
@comfy123 @justintaiwan have both naturalized recently and traveled on their NWOHR passports and TARC.
Even 25 years ago when I naturalized the MOI notified people if they wanted to travel what the rules were for getting HHR and ID card. No restrictions on travel have ever been in place. However there are many people who have no clue spouting of their nonsense that you cannot travel on NWOHR and TARC.
Recently on an FB group a Canadian chap that says he has lived in Taiwan for over 3 decades wrote that no white person would be allowed to naturalize as we are not “Chinese”
@comfy123 @justintaiwan myself and many other white people who have naturalized had to educate him.
I only naturalized after talking to @anon24369109. Why? Because there is so much BS being spread everywhere.
Quite frankly weak Americans will hate us Aussies when we post… but one thing is we speak only the truth and don’t BS.
Sometimes you have to wonder what’s worse? Talk BS in a “nice tone” or talk the truth in what is really a frank true blue tone.
Americans and Canadians will also lie to you in a nice tone. Aussies will tell you the truth in a way that makes Americans and Canadians cry and get all spastic.
