With open work rights.
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That’s something I’ve been hearing about. Is there a remark on the ARC that states you have open work rights? As far as I know, the law has changed and now as long as you have an ARC based on marriage, you can legally work in Taiwan.
This is what I found online.
[quote]My Story
My wife and I met while we were attending college in the United States and married just before my graduation. Not too long after our marriage, we moved to Taiwan. At the time, we were not planning living in Taiwan for more than a year and I wouldn’t be able to work legally in Taiwan solely on the basis of residency based upon our marriage. Therefore, instead of pursuing Taiwanese residency through our marriage, I obtained my Alien Residence Certificate (ARC) and work permit through the school where I was hired to teach English.
After about a year in Taiwan, we moved back to the United States to obtain advanced degrees. We finished graduate school and pursued our careers in the United States. My wife became a United States citizen, and now has dual citizenship. We recently decided to have our first child and once we received the good news, we quit our jobs and moved to Taiwan to enjoy the lower cost of living, which allows us both to not work for an extended period of time.
Because we decided not to work, at least not full time, obtaining an ARC through employment was not an option. Similarly, I did not want to attend school full-time for the same reason I did not want to work full time, so I wasn’t going to get an ARC through a school. Leaving the country every month or so on a “visa run” wasn’t practical for our situation. Moreover, if I decided to work part-time, I wanted to do so legally.
Thankfully, Taiwan changed its immigration laws a number of years ago allowing resident foreigners married to Taiwanese citizens to work legally in Taiwan. Permission to work legally in Taiwan was automatically granted upon receipt of the ARC; there is not a separate application process for a work permit.
Unfortunately, although the Taiwan government has been increasing the quantity and quality of English materials on-line and in print, figuring out the process for obtaining resident status was more confusing than I thought it should be. The purpose of this lens to help step you through the process and to collect in one place the on-line resources you will need or find helpful.
I hope that you find this site useful and I wish you happiness and success in your endeavors.
Overview of the Process
[ul]The Basic Steps of Acquiring Resident Status Through Marriage in Taiwan
The steps do not necessarily have to be done in this exact order. The sections below will discuss where one step is a prerequisite for another.
Deciding where to get married.
Tieing the knot, getting your marriage certificate, and getting it authenticated.
Getting your Certificate of no Criminal Record (a/k/a Certificate of Good Conduct)
Getting your Health Certificate and having it authenticated
Getting your name added to your Taiwanese spouse’s Household Registration
Getting your Joining Family Resident Visa
Getting your Alien Resident Certificate (ARC)
Renewing your ARC[/ul]
Steps 1 & 2: Marriage
Deciding where to get married, getting married, and making it all official
To avoid some of the relatively minor headaches that my wife and I experienced, it is best if you familiarize yourself with the regulations governing foreign residents before you get married and carefully coordinate your wedding and the subsequent steps you’ll need to take if you want to legally live and work in Taiwan. For example, when my wife and I married, we did not register our married in Taiwan and therefore had to pay a modest fine when, nearly a decade after the fact, my wife added me to her household registration (see the section on household registration, below). Also, many of the documents you must acquire, such as the health certificate and certificate of no criminal record, are only accepted within a certain time period after they were issued. If you don’t time things right, you might incur addition cost and inconvenience retracing your steps.
If you are married in Taiwan, you will still need to register your marriage in your home country and provide proof of this for household registration purposes. Contact the embasy, counsulate, or other representative office of your country in Taiwan about how to do this.
If you are married in your home country, be sure to obtain several certified copies of your marriage certificate. You will also need to translate it into Chinese and have it authenticated by Taiwanese Representative with jurisdiction over the locale where you registered your marriage. See section four on Household Registration, below, for more information.
NOTE: The Taiwanese spouse should proof-read a non-Chinese marriage certificate carefully to make sure that the spelling of the transliterated name on the marriage certificate matches that on the Taiwanese passport EXACTLY. If you are starting this process long after your marriage and find a discrepancy, you will mostly likely (in the USA) need to file for an amendment to you marriage certificate. In New York City, this cost $40. You can get the form and instructions from the NYC Marriage Bureau Website.[/quote]
, and this heat is make me crazy lol I try walk a few km under the burning sun, to the subway station and i give up ehehe