Hi all. I have a spouse dependent ARC nearing to expire and needs renewal soon. But few months ago, I landed a job. . 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? An…

[image] 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.

[image] 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. [image] sheng: Any effect in my residency if I pl…

[image] 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 yo…

[image] Blog | All Hands Taiwan Networking, News, and Resources All Hands' blog is written by our team and contributors from the community His friend changed from work based ARC to marriage based ARC. APRC time resets. Later he got divorced… back to work base…

[image] Opportunity or Dilemma: Work APRC vs. Marriage ARC Legal - Work 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. …

Right. Also found this. [image] APRC - Does switching visa types reset clock? 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. Employment based ARC ch…

[image] slawa: marriage based (divorce) → work based :x: reset I’m not convinced on this yet. off topic, though.

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

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.

Marriage ARC to Work ARC, is it necessary?

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slawa August 3, 2021, 2:59am 7

Right. Also found this.

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