Survey: What are the most illogical/arbitrary Taiwan immigration laws in your opinion?

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1. It’s not exactly an anti-foreign law, but the ban on teaching foreign languages in kindergartens is extremely stupid, and any damn fool can see that it’s very selectively enforced, which doesn’t encourage faith in the rule of law.

2. As noted, the work permit system in general.

Although it’s now possible for a newly arrived foreigner to get an open work permit through the gold card system, it’s very difficult to get a gold card (unless you’re someone who isn’t likely to want one anyway), so most foreigners are severely restricted until they either become permanent residents or marry Taiwanese.

If someone has already been found to be qualified for a type of job, why make the person go through the application process over and over? What harm is there in letting the person work for another employer doing exactly the same thing? Or even another branch of the first employer’s business?

Now they might say it’s not the foreigner but the employer that needs to prove itself worthy, but that argument falls flat when you realize that any foreigner with an open work permit can work for an employer that wouldn’t otherwise be able to get a work permit for a foreign employee, i.e. letting foreigners work more isn’t as dangerous as some politicians would have people believe. On the contrary, it would unlock some of their economic potential in a taxable manner.

Of course, if you let foreigners do all kinds of jobs without restrictions, like 711 etc., then some of them will, and then they would be taking jobs away from locals. However, an open-within-a-certain-category work permit, e.g. a buxiban-teacher-only work permit, would not have that problem, and it would fix the problem of teachers unwittingly becoming illegal foreign workers by presuming that two branches of the same business are allowed to share staff between them (which, generally speaking, they aren’t allowed to do with foreigners).

And so on – the youtube thing, etc. The whole system is based on 20th century thinking and doesn’t hold up well against the reality we have now.

3. Other issues – not specifically immigration, but equal rights for foreigners in general. When you don’t have confidence that banks will serve you while foreign, why even try?

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