I travel 10 or more weeks overseas every year using my Taiwan passport except for Philippines and australia.
Never an issue. Not an issue for my silent partner nationalities either lol
Low skilled factory workers or domestics donāt get PR in other countries either. A Philippines national tried for PR in HK and HK court blocked it.
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Not referring to ability to travel but rather other complications that come with citizenship.
For example Taiwan citizens with hukou have worldwide taxation no matter how many days they stay in Taiwan. APRC staying less than 6 months have no legal obligation to pay foreign tax not sourced in Taiwan.
So are you saying if you setup a company here, itās better to register it outside of Taipei city for less chance of tax issues?
Tens of thousands of roc citizens with Hukou living overseas with no tax obligations in Taiwan.
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I believe the issue I am having is I have two nationalities associated with my ARC. Because both show up on my entry/exit records, MOI will see I have 2 nationalities and ask that I renounce both. Do you know if the other two people you reference have entry/exit records for two nationalities showing up in their naturalization application?
Yes as I told you before people have changed nationalities and entered using both passports. Only required to renounce nationality on ARC. Asked and answered several times already in this thread.
In my case I would owe quite a lot if I became citizen and got taxed on my worldwide income
One could argue a buxiban teacher is low skill also but they could always get APRC. Thatās because itās a group they need to placate the citizens with kids.
There is a nuance in that entering and exiting on two different passports could be recorded as two different & distinct people (in your friends case all NZ entry/exit records could be completely separate from AUS records). In my case when they pull up my entry/exit record both show up.
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Howās that different for you now?
Teachers are a tertiary education required profession. Factory workers carers are not.
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My friend was not NZ Australia but other nationalities on his entry record. Not @comfy123. Unlike me the nationalities used are same name.
No different than you. Also not just one other person but multiple people have done this.
I only have high school educationā¦ Mere pleb. @justintaiwan also no degree. We are the mere mortal ROC Nationals ā¦
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Passing a university degree and rocking up to teach English without a teaching degree is not a skilled job, even though I have done it myself.
I have no experience setting up a company in Taiwan. I was describing, in the part you quoted, how the Tax Bureau on Taipei Cityās Zhongghua Road approaches individual tax cases (not business cases) compared to their peers elsewhere around the island.
Other forumosans with more experience here can perhaps jump in and helpāalthough this is not related to the topic of this thread, and may be better served in another dedicated thread.
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Just counting from 2015. Just maybe she can wait to see if her ARC record delink her other passport after it expires if itās not a long wait.
It (like other skilled jobs) can be either dead end or become a career.
For me it became a career where now Iām training other teachers on how to teach and making a lot more than many of those uppity non teachers in the foreign community in Taiwan with much more flexible hours.
Many here have either not even finished a degree and use visa runs or fake degrees or finished a useless degree that doesnāt offer any job prospect. There was one prominent forumosa member who even wrote about āpretending to be a teacherā - the common theme is running on white privilege. These types of losers are sadly what many refer to.
I have been blessed to come across skilled educators who know and care about what they are doing.
For myself I have completed my masters in education while here in Taiwan. I can thank Taiwan for giving me this opportunity. - this allows me to study a masters in guidance counseling which pays 153,000aud a year or over 3 million NTD starting salary and it is a 9am to 2:45pm job
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Just cogs in the machine of life
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While thatās admirable, I think you know what point Iām trying to make. A person in the factory was not given that opportunity to upskill in Taiwan, they were just sent home, so consider yourself lucky.
Ultimately though, keeping the renunciation requirement shows the governments thoughts toward people immigrating. And immigration policy.is still very biased toward certain groups.
Btw for me salary and income levels mean zip, I donāt spend a lot and canāt bring it with me, and donāt try to compare with others
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