Immigration and residence
Immigration and residence
The residence permit is an identity document used by the Taiwanese government to prove the legal residence of Hong Kong and Macao residents, foreigners, people from the mainland, or nationals without registration in Taiwan. It is issued by the Immigration Department of the Ministry of the Interior.
The National Identity Card is the identity certificate of a national registered in Taiwan and issued by the Ministry of the Interior. The residence permit and national identity card also have the right to universal health insurance, further education and employment, investment in a company, application for a monthly phone card, bank account opening, and property sale.
However, the residence permit committee does not have some national rights and obligations, such as no Taiwan passport, no social benefits, no voting rights, no ability to serve as a civil servant, no obligation to military service, etc. The residence permit cannot be passed to the next generation.
In Taiwan, all male nationals between the ages of 19 and 36, called men of service age (military men), must perform military service.
However, Taiwan has been fully converted to a recruiting system on January 1, 2018. Men born on or after January 1, 1994 do not need to perform another year of military service and instead receive four months of military training.
For men born on or before December 31, 1993, they only need to perform alternative service for one year to serve in the government or public institutions.
Yes, when your child obtains a residence permit, he will receive the same education treatment as a local child with household registration in Taiwan.
In fact, there is no conflict between immigrating to Taiwan and immigrating to the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia. First naturalize Taiwan as a resident of Hong Kong and Macao, and then immigrate to the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia. There is no need to give up Taiwanese status. It can be described as one more passport and one more protection.
The advantage of immigrating to Taiwan is that the threshold for investment immigration is low, only 6 million Taiwan dollars (about 1.6 million Hong Kong dollars), and you can get an ID card and passport as soon as you live for one year. In addition, local consumer goods are cheap.
There is also universal health insurance and medical insurance, and Hong Kong and Taiwan are very close regardless of distance and culture.
The Taiwan government has strict supervision of immigration companies. All immigration consultants in immigration companies must pass the training of immigration professionals and pass the exam before they can obtain the professional license issued by the Taiwan Immigration Department.
You must also set up a company and register with the Immigration Department in order to become a legal immigration company. All registered immigration companies have a compensation mechanism for immigration disputes.
The person in charge of the immigration company must pass the credit check and no criminal record, and all consultants used by the company must also have no criminal record. In fact, immigration companies in many countries in the world must be licensed and registered, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, but Hong Kong lacks supervision of the immigration industry.
