How long do Gold Card holders have to wait currently for naturalization? 5 years? What about those “really awesome, special” foreigners who don’t need to renounce their Original citizenship (like that basketball player & the ivory coast footballer), do they need to wait 3 or 5 years?
They are also mixing foreign senior professionals and foreigners with substantial contributions. According to the E-government site, there is no restriction on residence period for foreign senior professionals currently.
Naturalization process for new residents – foreign spouses and senior professionals
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In the Chinese text @fifieldt posted, it says 高級專業, which they translate to “senior professionals” or “high level professionals”. It’s basically the requirement for dual citizenship.
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I applied for naturalization in 2021, and at the time 5 years were needed, even if you had a Gold Card ARC.
Even for Senior Professionals, I have never seen any mention of it being 3 years for citizenship.
The only advantage as far I can recall is that they don’t have to renounce their citizenship and there’s no 1 year wait period prior to getting the ID.
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No cut-off for US citizens as far as I know. It’s very strange to me that your government would restrict where you can have your child if you want to pass on your citizenship to them.
as far as they meet some conditions, right?
Is an automatically acquird citizenship by Child Citizenship Act of 2000 considered as a citizenship by birth?
For my lad born in Taiwan, if his children were born outside of Australia he would have to prove he has lived for two years in Australia to pass on citizenship.
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The arbitrariness of such numbers makes me think the policy makers are just . . . making stuff up. 
Guy
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It’s not just policy things like this are enacted into law in Australia.
The only condition is one parent needs to be a US citizen. Doesn’t matter where that parent was born.
you might be confusing US citizenship and ROC nationality, but it is true doesn’t matter where that parent was born for US citizenship.
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Dang
A child born outside the United States to one U.S. citizen parent and one non-U.S. citizen parent may be entitled to citizenship providing the U.S. citizen parent has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for five years, at least two years of which were after reaching the age of fourteen, prior to the birth of the child. These five years do not need to be consecutive.
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None of this is relevant to “Taiwanese Citizenship and Renunciation.”
Guy
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what is the nationality of a baby born in Taiwan whose parents are an overseas born Australian who has never lived in Australia and an American who has never been in US or an overseas born Canadian?
For Australia parents could apply PR for the child which would mean issuing the child a non Australian travel document. I’ve issued such a document before, they are also used for refugees who do not have citizenship as well. Not sure they would grant Australian citizenship but it’s possible as children should not be stateless. Taiwan also allows children born stateless in Taiwan to get ROC citizenship. Also would not be many cases where an Australian born overseas does not have citizenship of another country already. It’s certainly possible though. Why would an Australian citizen parent not have the child born in Australia if they were facing this issue?
can do naturalization after living here for 3 years, but the baby’s parents are not stateless, so maybe the baby doesn’t qualify for roc nationality by birth.
no money? don’t know on the issue? premature birth?
It is for the child who is stateless though. parents if they cannot pass on citizenship would be part of that criteria.
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Nationality Act
Article 2
A person shall have the nationality of the ROC under any of the conditions provided by the following Subparagraphs:
- His/her father or mother was a national of the ROC when he/she was born.
- He/she was born after the death of his/her father or mother, and his/her father or mother was a national of the ROC at the time of death.
- He/she was born in the territory of the ROC, and his/her parents can’t be ascertained or both were stateless persons.
- He/she has undergone the naturalization process.
The provisions of Subparagraphs 1 and 2 in the preceding paragraph shall be also applicable to those under the age of 20 at the time of the amendment and implementation of this Act on February 9, 2000.
When then they would fall back on this
For Australia parents could apply PR for the child which would mean issuing the child a non Australian travel document.
