Hi Forumosa Family,
My apologies for asking a question that the answer could be so obvious, but trying to seek your advice here.
I am a Gold Card holder and moved to Taiwan last winter. I came here alone while my wife is still in Dubai. In April, I started the process to get my wife over.
I traveled to Dubai due to personal reasons (to ship few of house stuff and close the house rental contract) and took it as an opportunity to personally apply the residency visa for my wife in the Taipei Commercial Office of Dubai.
Due to number of documents requested and have them all attested in multiple government entities, we managed to get everything done for the residency visa submission on May 19th.
On the next day, which was the May 20th, we learned about Taiwan flight restrictions and any new visa requests will be rejected. Therefore, I cannot submit my wife application as it would be rejected now.
Although, I have started the process with the Taipei Commercial Office earlier, and they shared with me some documents to fill, they adviced me not to submit now during my visit on the 20th.
It is our bad luck.
My question is, do you know if there is a way to get an exception for my case?
I am still in Dubai, paying house rents here in Dubai and in Taichung.
The situation came out of the blue and I don’t know how long it will stay this way.
We were so excited to complete this final milestone and move back with wife, and now we are stuck not sure what we should be doing except waiting, and God knows until when.
I know I can go back alone, but I really don’t want to leave the wife again, so I am staying with her.
Any tips, advice or sharing your experience would be helpful.
Thanks,
Raed