Some Dutch came to Taiwan in 1624 and did not need a JFRV at all.
How does that help OP or their spouse, who is not from UK and can’t get a time machine?
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Fuck me, cheer up. It is christmas.
You said it is a requirement to get a jfrv. If you meant just for the French, you should have said it.
I said i didnt need to do that. You said because the rules changed in 2014. I told you that i did this before 2014.
Now you have written some shit about the dutch.
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I don’t mean to be rude or anything. But legal forum is for advice that actually helps the poster to solve their situation.
My example just showcased how many posts in this thread in the legal forum do not help to resolve OP’s question. Instead the correct answer is said to be wrong, with personal experiences that probably had the requirement waved or postponed, or when that requirement might not have yet existed back in the days.
Neither relevant regulations were posted, nor experiences which apply to their exact situation.
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100! All the responses thus far should go to temp!
(Or, even better, be split out into country-specific threads for future reference.)
Maybe somebody with access to the site logs could search for IPs having (non-VPN) French ASNs and discreetly message those folks to get over to this thread… 
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The OPs question is from the point of view of the Taiwanese partner, and they state that the French partner doesn’t see any benefit in registering the marriage in France.
That would lead the readers to assume that the acqisition of a JFRV isn’t a concern, otherwise the French partner would change their tune.
Only issue I see (excluding JFRV) would be if the Taiwanese partner wishes to migrate to France. Also, the hesitancy to register marriage in France leaves me wondering why, is there any impediment to this (such as a pre-existing marriage)?
Perhaps you should not be speculating the OP’s husband has a previous exising marriage as to get married in Taiwan one needs to get documentation that they are single before getting married here. Also one should not assume the French partners visa status nor reasons for not registering the marriage in France right now.
Also who assumes the French partner wants to move to France? There are many other countries he might want to live in. I know French people here with APRC that never want to live in France again.
There is nothing wrong with not wanting to register the marriage in France. The couple are legally married in Taiwan.
@chang I have Australian and EU citizenship as well as now ROC citizenship. My ROC wife has never been to Australia even though we have been married over two decades. She has never held a visa for Australia either. When she does travel to EU countries she just uses ROC passport as a tourist. There is no benefit to registering our marriage in the EU as we never intend to live there.
Also one can get French citizenship by virtue of being married to a French citizen for five years. So it can just be easier to get citizenship without needing to live in France. A friend of mine has Maltese citizenship and his ROC wife got Maltese citizenship from being married for 5 years without needing to live in Malta. They did need to register the marriage in Malta and did so using a lawyer. His wife required a trip to Malta to do some documentation for her Maltese passport but not the citizenship which are separate.
Her husband has also recently naturalized and got ROC citizenship.
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Thank you all for your responses. My husband already has an APRC in Taiwan, so visas won’t be an issue. We are currently living in Taiwan, but we’re not ruling out the possibility of moving to another country in the future. Personally, I feel it’s more fair for our marriage to be legally recognized in both of our countries. After all, unlike the U.S., Australia, or the U.K., France does not directly recognize marriages registered in Taiwan.
It’s makes no difference and it’s fair to be married in the country you live in not everywhere else. If you plan on moving to France or getting citizenship and passport then do the documentation at that time. Not necesarry now and your husband is correct that it costs time and money to process/
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But is there a prenup? I think it’s more fair to have a prenup in place first
As a foreigner he has practically no rights in Taiwan if things go south. Taiwan is not part of Hague. You will get custody etc. Maybe he is hesitant due to the reciprocal treatment.
This only works if the foreign marriage is registered in France.
Sure and as @chang is only recently married in Taiwan it’s not like there is any need to do so now. It can be done through a lawyer when then husband is ready to do so. Seems the husband is not ready at this time.
??? What are you on about? Divorce law applies here applies equally to foreigners and citizens. Custody of what? Did the OP say they have children after just being recently married? I know several foreigners who got sole custody of their children here after a divorce. Some remained in Taiwan and some left Taiwan with their children.
That’s classy… till death do us part but only in Taiwan.
Many threads about this already
Hmm where did I say anything about children before your post? Or did you assume I was talking about children and not assets per prenup agreement? Many couples I know of get pregnant before marriage.
Your claim is that foreigners have practically no rights in Taiwan which is false. Custody of children in any country can be contentious. Even citizen fathers can have issues has nothing to do with being a foriegner. Dual citizenship of children can be an issue where one parent wants to remove ROC citizen children to live in a foreign country. This happens everywhere.
@comfy got FULL custody of his daughter when he got divorced.
Also as to a pre nup, bit late for that now if the OP does not have one and if she does none of my business to inquire in the first place. 
You wrote custody… custody generally applies to children not assets when discussing a divorce. Also many smart people put their assets in a trust so in case of a divorce cannot be touched.
Sorry whose country’s dictionary are we using? I lose track, but Oxford says:
“the legal right or duty to take care of or keep somebody/something; the act of taking care of something/somebody“
As if this is of any relevance lol Japan is. How’s that working out?
Or Syria or Russia or China?
Those other countries without Hague are almost impossible to go after
I went through a lawsuit before and I know the amount to work to go through letters rogatory and they likely will reject small cases since it requires diplomatic assistance
China is part of Hague btw. But service through mail not allowed.
The OP recently married and you want to bring up divorce and assetts already. I’m sure the OP will be thrilled. Whatever happened to death do us part.
Some countries have bi-lateral agreements so the Hague is not the way to resolve judicial issues.