Taiwanese PR for wife

[xifbk]

We are getting different stores and conflicting information so I thought I would ask here on the off chance someone here has had recent experience in this.

I am australian and my wifes parents are Taiwanese, my wife was born in australia and never registered in taiwan so she doesnt exist. Is it possible for my wife to get some sort of PR that would allow her free travel in and out of taiwan, and hence possibly myself as well?

We have been told that she just has to live there for 3 months by one person, and another person tells us she has to live there for 2 years.

Not sure what Visa I would go in on in the mean time, not keen on teaching english (:

[chrix]

No, having a passport alone is not sufficient, you have to be in the family registry and in order to be registered, you need to have lived there for at least a year or something like that. For the exact details I refer you to the resident experts on www.forumosa.com

[Lu]

Someone of Taiwanese descent can certainly become Taiwanese, but I don't know (or forgot) what exactly the regulations are. Forumosa is a good place to look.

I'm assuming though that your wife does have some other passport, like Australian. If she really 'doesn't exist' things might be more complicated.

And you might want to look into the visa situation for Australians going to Taiwan, I (Dutch) can go on a landing visa and stay for up to a month at the time, if you're not planning to live and work there, that's as good as free travel in and out.

[chrix]

Lu, if you have family there, one month often is not enough. In the West and Japan, three months (sometimes even six!) per visit is the norm...

[Lu]

Wow, who has that much time off?! You can easily get a visa for two months, but then it's not a free in and out anymore, of course.

[chrix]

up to three months <> three months. Well, sometimes people visit their family between jobs, or they are free lancers, or college professors or school teachers or even use up all their five-six weeks of vacation time which is normal in Europe.

[Lu]

Europe is an entire continent. In my corner of it, nobody spends their entire six-week holiday with their family. Might be the case elsewhere, of course.

[chrix]

By family I mean family on Taiwan, as in international marriages. Across the continent, this will not be common, but usually the Taiwanese spouse will see to it that spending time with the Taiwanese family will become a priority for the European spouse as well, even Dutch ones

[skylee]

What does PR mean here?

[chrix]

I presume it means Permanent Residency

[Lu]

Ah wait, you don't mean that Europeans spend their 6-week holidays with their family, you mean 5-6 weeks of holiday is normal in Europe, and long visits to TW family is normal for TW spouses. In that case I suppose that's true.

[xifbk]

Oops yes shouldn't have used an abbreviation, PR (Permanent residency) is the status where you can come and go as you please.

I am guessing that this is equivalent to the us "Green card" however I am only guessing (: