Just got back from a visa run in HK as my school let my old ARC run out (with my passport and ARC gathering dust in their must do file!). Anyway I had planned on getting a visitor visa and then going through the usual process for getting a new ARC when I got back. At the HK via office I was told that the policy had changed since last year. It was now not possible to get a resident visa whilst in Taiwan. I would have to get all of the relevant documents from the MOE etc and then head back out of the country to get a resident visa (they had a new form with a resident visa box on it). This is the first I have heard of this and find it unlikely but would like to confirm that I either misunderstood the staff at the visa office, or that they were talking a load of BS.
never heard of it i know people that have just got here and every thing has been done here in taiwan by their employer so sounds like a load of shit to me