Marriage resident visa in passport, still waiting for ARC card, can I work?

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@carlcarl1

獲准居留

has been permitted to stay

This is the key to the question of whether a foreign spouse needs an ARC or just a resident visa.

What exactly is a JFRV?

Precisely, a foreign spouse needs to have been granted residence (且獲准居留者) to have working rights by virtue of being married to a ROC national with household registration in the Taiwan Area. Under the Immigration Act, residence for foreigners refers to being granted an ARC. It is even a contentious issue whether APRC holders married to ROC nationals need a work permit. In fact, a resident visa (or any sort of visa) will be entirely irrelevant from the moment the foreign spouse has been granted …

Hsinhai is usually right about legal issues, so I’ll go with his interpretation until I see evidence to the contrary.