Marriage ARC to Work ARC, is it necessary?

[sheng]

Hi all. I have a spouse dependent ARC nearing to expire and needs renewal soon. But few months ago, I landed a job.
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Is is necessary to change my ARC to work ARC or keep spouse dependent ARC? My spouse is not a Taiwan citizen.
Any effect in my residency if I plan to apply for APRC in future?
Any pros and cons?
TIA

[slawa]

@sheng

Any effect in my residency if I plan to apply for APRC in future?

If you change the type of ARC, then the 5 year wait for APRC might reset. Talk to NIA before doing so.

No need to change from marriage based ARC if you don’t anticipate getting divorced before getting APRC.

[tando]

@sheng

Is is necessary to change my ARC to work ARC or keep spouse dependent ARC? My spouse is not a Taiwan citizen.

Iiuc, it is not necessary, though you can change it to work based ARC if your salary is no less than NT $47,971.

@sheng

Any effect in my residency if I plan to apply for APRC in future?

If you get your APRC via work based ARC, or 5 years residency and financial assets, you can keep your APRC independently from your spouse.

If you get it as a dependent of your spouse, your APRC is tied with your spouse’s, and the length you need depend on your spouse’s ARC. If it is foreign senior professional, you can apply with your spouse. If not, you should wait for 5 years after your spouse get APRC. It will be 3 years for foreign special professional’s spouse once an amended law will become effective.

[tando]

@slawa

If you change the type of ARC, then the 5 year wait for APRC resets.

Are you sure about this? There is at least a poster who reported that years on different types of ARCs were combined, iirc.

If you change your status from work based ARC to ARC as a spouse of citizen, and you want to get APRC as a spouse, you should be on the new marriage based ARC for 5 years, but you can still apply for APRC with the 5 year and assets condition, iiuc.

[slawa]

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His friend changed from work based ARC to marriage based ARC. APRC time resets. Later he got divorced… back to work based ARC, APRC time resets.

@tando

Are you sure about this? There is at least a poster who reported that years on different types of ARCs were combined, iirc.

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Looks like it depends on the situation. So it is better to go to NIA and inquire about the status of the APRC and if you can change the ARC type without resetting APRC time.

[tando]

Opportunity or Dilemma: Work APRC vs. Marriage ARC

Last year, I changed from work related (accumulated 4 years already) to marriage ARC and NIA advised that it will not reset my timer. i will applying for marriage APRC this September.

Marriage visa questions

Yes, i got it last year, i collected all the information beforehand so application went smoothly.

[slawa]

Right. Also found this.

@Northcoast_Surfer

Switching from one visa type to another visa type DOESN’T NECESSARILY reset the 5-year APRC clock. Here are a couple situations where it won’t as long as you don’t allow your status to expire.

1. Employment based ARC changing to JFRV ARC.
2. Employment based ARC from one company to employment based ARC for another company.

work based → marriage based no reset
marriage based (divorce) → work based reset

[tando]

@slawa

marriage based (divorce) → work based reset

I’m not convinced on this yet. off topic, though.

[sheng]

this might be a similar case. except that I will be changing from spouse ARC to Work ARC.

[sheng]

Divorce is also out of the question.
if marriage based <= => word based should have no impact on applying for APRC later, then it is all good.