Immigration tell me I need to stay here for five years to get a permanent residents, how can I survive for 5 years if you not qualify to get working permit. My VISA is 3 months and can be extend up to 6 months. I need advice how do I get working permit.
Find an employer to sponsor u for work permit, then apply for TARC (since you are a NWOHR) then wait and can apply for HHR.
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How did you get NWOHR passport? There are new rules for 2024. No longer need a visa to enter Taiwan. When there is no information it is hard to offer advice.
I got my TW passport because my father 100 blood Chinese my grandfather and grandmother from China migrate to Philippines
You don’t need a working permit for any job that requires a university degree or above (as a NWOHR)
You can get HHR after 335 days.
Immigration tell me I need to stay here for 5 years to get an I.D resident. I already ask that few weeks ago.
From what you have sent are the requirements to get NHWOR status.
Could you post the entire paper not just an extract? You can blur out any private information
My father 25 years in Taiwan but he also NWOHR I don’t know why, I found my father ID: ICR and ACR
I think this is the list of options to become eligible for a TARC. But the 5 year option isn’t the only one.
So it sounds like you have mixed 2 TARC options together.
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stay in Taiwan for 5 years (you would need to leave periodically for a few days) then you can apply for a TARC.
This is a good option if you are not eligible for a work permit and do not hold other nationalities. If your only nationality is Taiwan NWOHR then you don’t need a work permit. But is a really long option. Also you won’t have a TARC so you may need to do some convincing of employers (and banks) but everything would be legal. -
Get a work permit. Getting a work permit depends on lots of things. You could get it through your employer if you have the right qualifications/experience. You can get a TARC as soon as you have a work permit
There are many other options to get a TARC too but these are the 2 that seem relevant to you. A TARC is a Taiwan Area Residency Certificate and is the key to establishing yourself in Taiwan
After 1 year on TARC you can get household registration
What is this?
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I would avoid Immigration Act Art 9-1-5 (one you circled). I don’t even understand how it works (like how do you legally stay 183 days in a year and do this continuously for 5 years). Plus what the employee didn’t tell you or know is all get from spending those 5 years living like a nomad is a TARC where you still need to spend a further 335 days for a year (again without work unless you get a work permit) to get your ID.
9-1-5. Holds a passport of the State to enter in the Taiwan Area in the legal visit status for consecutive five (5) years or over, and to reside for the period of one hundred and eighty-three (183) days or over each year.
Since you need a job anyway, if you are able to land a professional job, you can skip those 5 years going back and forth and doing nothing and get a TARC under Art 9-1-11 anyway (because it is Article 9).
9-1-11. Has been approved to work in the Taiwan Area by the central authority for labor affairs or the competent authority of the industry concerned pursuant to Subparagraphs 1 to 7 or Subparagraph 11, Paragraph 1 of Article 46 of the Employment & Service Act, or engages in work not required approval pursuant to Subparagraph 1 or 3, Paragraph 1 of Article 48 of the Employment & Service Act, or engages in legal work not required approval under the Employment & Service Act but equivalent to those under Subparagraphs 1 to 7 or Subparagraph 11, Paragraph 1 of Article 46 or Subparagraph 1 or 3, Paragraph 1 of Article 48 of the Employment & Service Act in the Taiwan Area.
I think as someone with a foreign passport in addition to your NWOHR passport, you do need a work permit to work according to (Employment Services Act Art 79), so it’ll be like being a foreigner trying to get a job in Taiwan (unfortunately), but that’s how it goes.
You can stay legally for 6 months and need to do visa runs every 6 months. It’s stupid.
It’s really only a good option if NWOHR is your only nationality and you can’t get a work permit or TARC any other way and have decided to settle in Taiwan.
I hope one day they scrap work permits altogether for TARC holders/Taiwan NWOHR. There are so many exceptions to the requirement too. it’s confusing for everyone
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Like a fake national here in TW hahaha
Basically.
It is very similar to British National Overseas passport holders who cannot live in the UK without visas/permits
Now BNOs have though the special visa, can stay for 5 yrs, then get settled, then can register for full British citizenship
I can get an ancestry visa through one of my grandparents. This allows me to stay and get citizenship too. I was contemplating doing it but Australia seems much better than the UK.
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That seems to be the consensus. My team leader moved to Australia from the UK about a year or so ago and in his words “The UK is a crap miserable version of Australia” 
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