I have a few questions on behalf of my wife, it seems some of you may be able to explain it better than the local “consulate”.
a) She was born in australia to parents who are both dual citizens of both Taiwan and Australia.
b) She was born in 1979, and was never registered so is not a taiwanese citizen nor does she have household registration.
We intende to live here for a while to explore and get to know taiwan, and so she can get back some sort of taiwanese status so we can come here with less visa troubles.
If anyone can provide feedback on the following it would be helpful (:
How long do we have to live here before she can get household registration, I think it is 6 months but she could not quite understand what the lady at the embassy was saying.
After 6 months or one year will she have effectively PR or citizenship?
After 6 months or one year (or longer) will I be able to get some sort of ARC so I can work without going through all sorts of work permit/arc stuff?
Your heading is totally misleading. Firstly your wife is not a Taiwan National as you stated. IF she were a Taiwan naitonal she wouldnt need a visa of any type for Taiwan just as Australian Nationals don’t need a visa for Australia.
She may be eligible to apply for Overseas Chinese Status as both her parents are from Taiwan.
She may then be able to get an Overseas Chinese Taiwan passport and move to TAiwan. I am not totally sure how this works which is why you have to ask the Taiwan office where you are.
IT takes 12 months residency to get the household registration as on averseas Chinese which means she can then get her ID Card. Make sure she does not have to renounce her Australian Citizenship to do so. I did.
Once she has her ID card you as her spouse can apply for a marriage based ARC which allows you to live and work here.
There are no visa troubles to come to TAiwan. You can get long term visitor visas. But you cannot work on them.
I was not sure of a better term than “Taiwanese national”, sorry! (:“Overseas chinese” doesnt mean much more to me (:
I am not surprised many people understand this. At the “consulate” they said they have never ever had to deal with a person in this situation. They are not exactly sure of the rules, and had to get clarification from direct from Taiwan. And then some of it gets lost/confusing in the translation from chinese to English. (:
If we ever work it out I will do an update to this post (:
[quote=“pqkdzrwt”]I was not sure of a better term than “Taiwanese national”, sorry! (:“Overseas chinese” doesnt mean much more to me (:
I am not surprised many people understand this. At the “consulate” they said they have never ever had to deal with a person in this situation. They are not exactly sure of the rules, and had to get clarification from direct from Taiwan. And then some of it gets lost/confusing in the translation from Chinese to English. (:
If we ever work it out I will do an update to this post (:[/quote]
There is no Taiwan consulate in Australia. Maybe a rep office but no consulate. Consulates are only for countries that Australia reconginzes diplomatically and Taiwan isn’t.
Of course they have had to deal with people in your wife’s situation. It is not that uncommon. It was uncommon when I had to get the Taiwan rep office in Canberra to notorize my renunciation of Australian Citizenship to get ROC ROC Nationality.
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I am not surprised many people understand this. At the “consulate” they said they have never ever had to deal with a person in this situation. They are not exactly sure of the rules, and had to get clarification from direct from Taiwan.[/quote]
Thanks for clarifying what happened at the encounter between the Original Poster and the rep office, at which the Original Poster was present and you weren’t. You know, the passport you hold gives you ROC nationality; it does not give you omniscience. How’s about trying to limit your answers to things you can reasonably answer?
I know Australia does not have a consulate for Taiwan, thats why I said “consulate”, In australian culture at least, putting something in quotes in some contexts means something pretending to be something.
It was just too annoying to try and remember and type the full name, I think it is “Australian Commerce and Industry Office - Taipei”. If on the forum the convention is to call it “rep office” then that is what I will call it.
It is obviously not as common as you imply because the “rep” did not know how to handle my wife’s situation (taiwanese parents with daughter with no household registration), she had to ask her boss. When she came back the boss said they didn’t know either and would have to communicate back to Taiwan to find out.
Apparently if your parents don’t register your birth by a certain age (currently 20 I think) then you have to do the living in taiwan for maybe 1 year to get the registration.