More than 2,000 Chinese spouses living in Taiwan are yet to submit proof of having renounced their Chinese household registration, National Immigration Agency (NIA) director Lin Hung-en (林宏恩) said.
The Legislative Yuan’s Judiciary and Organic Laws Committee and Internal Administration Committee today jointly reviewed proposals from lawmakers regarding a “new immigrant development agency” within the Ministry of the Interior, with Lin and several other officials invited to attend.
The deadline for Chinese spouses living in Taiwan to submit proof of having renounced their Chinese household registration, providing an affidavit or meeting conditions for an exemption or deferral is today, after the NIA had sent notices to the spouses in early April asking them to submit this proof within three months.
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The NIA would use all possible means to get in contact with the remaining spouses, Lin said, including cross-checking health insurance records or asking for assistance from security services.
At a news conference on Thursday, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) deputy head and spokesperson Liang Wen-chieh (梁文傑) said that of the 2,237 individuals who have yet to contact the government, authorities know the location of about 20 percent of them.
The NIA would conduct in-person visits soon in order to deliver the necessary forms in person, it said.
For spouses who demonstrate willingness to take action to resolve the issue, Lin said that the agency would not “directly resort” to major decisions like revoking their household registration in Taiwan.
Those who have yet to contact the government could have done so for a variety of reasons, such as not having children in Taiwan, being relatively old or unaware of the new regulations, Lin said.
The agency intends to try all means of contacting them to resolve these issues, he added.
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