OK so this is one among docs needed.
Unless your country has an office in Taiwan, beware of the stupidity of this rule (which of course, like many others, was made in order to make it easy on paper, but hard in practice, so that they can decide who to give PARC/Citizenship on per-case basis. How ingenious - make it hard for the Chinese and SEAsians, make it easy for X, leave Y to their own devices, etc.):
a) The report must be less than three months old
That is ridiculous - even though I’ve been in Taiwan for x years and, in my case, haven’t been to my original country for over a year, I still need a report that’s under three months old. WTF?
b) For some reason Hague Apostille Authentication Certificate doesn’t work in Taiwan/R.O.C. so not having my country’s rep office here, I have to incur big expense and about five notarizations/certifications per each document from my country.
Unless I fly back to my country and do everything myself, there’s almost no way to get the docs done within 90 days (see case a)).
This thing about Hague Apostille Authentication Certificate is really puzzling to me - it’s already difficult enough to deal with paperwork in this situation of lacking diplomatic relations, what is the reason for not signing it? Is it to help someone’s buddies in certification/notarization business? Or Taiwan isn’t allowed to sign it?
BTW, I was also told by the personnel of NPA that I couldn’t apply for residency because my ARC had a 2 day interruption some 6 years ago, which seemed incorrect.
Anyway, I’ve had enough of them and decided I won’t ever again try to apply for permanent residency here.[/quote]