Renew ARC with spouse ID card only

Hi,

I live in Kaohsiung. Can I renew my ARC with just my Taiwanese spouse ID card or do I really need to get and bring a Household registration transcript instead of the ID card ?

Thanks

In theory, I believe, you’re meant to have the HHR when you go to renew. In practice, I’ve done it twice in Tainan (most recently last month) and never needed more than the ID. We took both anyway, as well as our marriage certificate, but they only wanted ID.

Unless you’re very close to the expiration and need to get it right first time, I’d probably give it a try with just the ID - you can always go back with the other documents another day. No idea if the staff in Kaohsiung have the same approach as Tainan though.

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Ok, thanks. Yes, I’ll do that, I am not in hurry so I’ll try with the ID card first. There’s a post on this forum, a guy in Kaohsiung did it, but that was few years ago.