A proposed immigration office would deploy a full-time investigation squad responsible for busting illegal immigrants and human trafficking rings, the Executive Yuan said yesterday.
"The immigration office would strengthen the low-end management of immigrants, while the Immigration Law (
While the Ministry of the Interior has presented the draft amendments of the Immigration Law to the Cabinet for review, the ministry plans to introduce the draft immigration policy in the near future.
In addition to addressing the issue of recruiting professionals from abroad, the draft amendments to the Immigration Law would regulate investment-related immigration, Yeh said.
Yeh made the remarks yesterday afternoon after reviewing the draft bill of the organic law on the immigration office (
According to Yeh, the immigration office, if approved by the legislature, will be established under the interior ministry to handle immigration affairs, including the screening of potential immigrants from China, Hong Kong and Macao as well as overseas Taiwanese without household registration records.
Personal interviews would be conducted at three levels: at the overseas representative offices before a potential immigrant enters the country, at customs and at home after their entry.
The office would consist of nine divisions and 1,640 staffers.
The investigation squad, encompassing 10 teams and 25 sub-teams, would be responsible for investigating and deporting people for violations.
The document examination squad, comprising of 15 teams and 38 sub-teams, would be responsible for examining documents at airports and harbors.
Yeh said the personal interviews are not aimed at intimidating potential immigrants, but at gathering information and providing service.
"Facing the increasing number of immigrants and the many complicated problems that it brings, we have to establish a screening mechanism to minimize the impact," he said.
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According to Chien, there are about 2,000 marriages a month between ROC and PRC citizens.
As of last month, there were about 190,000 mixed marriages between Taiwanese and Chinese nationals, and about 90,000 mixed marriages between Taiwanese and other foreign nationals.
Chien said that the idea of establishing an immigration office is not new.
"It was first brought up in 1996, but back then the set-up was designed to integrate the functions of various government agencies," Chien said.
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