Good thing is Taiwan ID card rules them all. 
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What did they mean?
Something to do with my partners household registration. That’s a guess. I wasn’t sticking around to prolong the already long and tortuous conversation.
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NIA has a surprisingly helpful explainer of the new regs coming into effect today:
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Does this apply to naturalized NWOHRs too? We only need to reside for 335 days to be eligible for HHR now? I didn’t see a mention of this in the modified legislation. I wonder if this is continuous 335 days or cumulative 335 days in a year. I guess MoI will update their naturalization flowcharts soon if there is a change that affects us.
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This is great news! No penalties for short trips during the first year
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It’s in Article 10.
GPT translation (cos official translation sucks):
Applicants referred to in Article 9, Paragraph 1, Items 1 to 11, along with their spouses and minor children, who have been permitted to reside according to the stipulations of the previous article, and have resided in Taiwan for a full year with at least 335 days of residence, or have continuously resided for two years with at least 270 days of residence each year, or have continuously resided for five years with at least 183 days of residence each year, and still meet the original residence conditions. However, those permitted to reside according to Article 9, Paragraph 1, Items 2, 4, or 8 are not subject to the restriction of having resided for a specific period.
Looks like it’s cumulative? So we can leave for 17 days of the year and still get HHR after 1 year of being on TARC
This is the news @Brianjones was waiting for. Better late than never?
Guy
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That may be still too little for me although admittedly a lot better than 365 days a year and good for many folks.
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They seem to have realized the earlier conditions were frankly stupid and unworkable for almost any professionals out there (or even nonprofessionals with families overseas).
Guy
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I mean it still doesn’t make any sense whatsoever but hey this is Taiwan . They abolished it for other categories of naturalisation already so they know that it’s unnecessary.
(Edit I mean the residence requirement to get HHR for nationals who are nationals for other reasons e.g. parents were Taiwanese )
It wasn’t abolished for any categories of naturalisation.
Only those who are NWOHR and only need to apply for household registration.
NWOHR are already Nationals, impossible to naturalise
For the overseas Taiwanese kids wasn’t it abolished ?
I meant nationals .
No, they were born nationals. Anyone who can skip the year never naturalised, they were born nationals.
Yes I know.
But previously they had to reside or wait a certain period to get HHR.
I mean for getting the HHR.
But nationals were weren’t born nationals still have to do the dumb further residence requirement even though you may have been happily flying in and out of Taiwan for 20 plus years already.
It’s not a game of gotcha lol.
Never has been if you applied to leave. Pita yes quirky policy
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Works for my son. Good things come to those that deserve better
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My kids can do the same nobody really cares , your kid should do his duty for Taiwan if he comes back though . It’s one year now as well. Good things come to those who wait.
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But you’re wrong, they didn’t abolish it for ‘other categories of naturalisation’. That isn’t correct and is just a way to confuse people.
NWOHR cannot naturalise, ever, they are already Nationals. Some categories of NWOHR do not need to meet the residency requirement to establish household registration.
you said before your kids are already nationals with HHR and ID cards yes?
Even if my son gets his HHR and ID card which he may well do in February when he enters on his Australian passport, as he has two children he is exempt from the 12 month military service. So he comes back, gets his HHR and ID card, leaves Taiwan to return to Australia on his Taiwan passport. As you know you can enter on a foreign passport leave on a Taiwanese one.
This is the way.