American Institute in Taiwan Director Raymond Greene invites U.S. citizens in Taiwan to a town hall at AIT Taipei on Friday, March 14, at 2:00 PM. This will be Director Greene’s first U.S. citizen town hall. Director Greene and his team will tell you more about the services we provide for U.S. citizens and answer your questions. We will also discuss AIT’s role in promoting U.S.-Taiwan relations.
This English language event will be off the record. No photography, filming, or recording is allowed.
When: Friday, 2025-03-14T06:00:00Z
Where: AIT Taipei, 100 Jinhu Road, Neihu District, Taipei City. Parking is not available at AIT.
Each individual must request a seat at this event and receive a confirmation email from AIT in order to attend. Use the Registration Link (Click Here) to request a seat. Space is limited. Requests must be submitted by 11:59 PM on Sunday, March 9. If a seat is available, you will receive a confirmation email from AIT at a later date with instructions for entry. Your U.S. passport used for registration will be required for entry.
Visitors who do not receive a confirmation email from AIT will not be allowed to enter. The only way to request a seat for this event is the registration link.
I would just write directly to Trump and Elon. Trump has mentioned to bring up cases where other countries are treating America unfairly. Maybe bring up the tax domicile issue and Americans not being able to be domiciled in Taiwan as well.
Raymond Greene is Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, which makes him the de facto US ambassador to Taiwan. Before his appointment in July, he put in nearly 30 years as a career diplomat in the Indo-Pacific region, working in Japan, Taiwan, China and the Philippines.
Raymond Greene's remarks highlighted the strong partnership between the United States and Taiwan through the Global Cooperation Training Framework (GCTF). Key points include:
U.S. Support for Taiwan: The U.S. reaffirmed its enduring support for Taiwan and commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific region, emphasizing peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
Whole-of-Society Resilience: Taiwan has prioritized enhancing its resilience through coordination across government, private sector, and society. This aligns with GCTF’s goals of increasing dialogue and cooperation.
Taiwan’s Expertise: Taiwan has demonstrated significant expertise in disaster response and pandemic management, showcasing its ability to share knowledge globally.
Cooperation Areas: The U.S. and Taiwan collaborate in areas such as medical resilience, information security, and energy resiliency to build a more robust society capable of withstanding various threats.
Future Work: Both countries aim to continue strengthening Taiwan’s resilience by engaging all sectors of society and investing in necessary infrastructure and skills.
By the way, there is no official URL for these announcements. One needs to be enrolled in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) to learn about them.
That’s why I’m not going to tell anybody the time and place for the Taichung meeting. That’s AIT’s job to make a public announcement URL.
I am a Community Liaison Volunteer (CLV) for AIT Taipei, which is why I received the email asking for help to inform Americans of events like this. They did reach out to US Citizens who are already enrolled in the STEP program first, and seating to this event is limited.
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I use my computer’s cut-and-paste functionality to try to avoid making typos. It works most of the time
I see. Thanks. By the way, AIT should mention in their announcements if it is OK to bring along the citizen’s family members, even if they don’t have US passports.
[!question] Serious Question
Do you mean bring them along to the event to meet Director Greene or bring them along in the event of an evacuation off-island?
The events with the Director seem to have limited seating. And they are clear in the invite that it’s only for US Citizens
For off-island evacuation, if you have been here since at least the pandemic, you should have an Escape Plan in place by now – at the very least, your non-US family members should have updated passports and visas or ECFA already set (I know they won’t want to leave, but it doesn’t hurt to be prepared)
I’d phrase it as being unfair to America rather than its citizens and make it more about money and how it benefits the US
When a US citizen becomes a TW citizen and has to renounce, TW is taking away future tax potential from the US by having that person renounce. But when a TW citizen becomes a US citizen, Taiwan can still maintain a claim on that person.
It’s in the US best interest to keep its citizens due to worldwide taxation and how that person’s worldwide assets falls under US estate law. If a person passes away in TW without heirs, the US would have a claim on their estate if that person was still a US citizen.
I’m also kind of worried. We see we will get a confirmation email if our application to attend is accepted. But if it is rejected apparently we won’t know… until it is too late, I suppose.
Also (as Auntie Nelda would say) wouldn’t you know it, my new passport hasn’t arrived yet back from the cleaners, so all I could enter on the form is the old number that fortunately I had jotted down. (It’s also on my APRC.) So you’ll just have to recognize my smiling face at the admissions desk there on 3/19 in Taichung.
