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Taiwan

National Immigration Agency - Ministry of the Interior

Address

National Immigration Agency
No.15, Guangjhou St., Jhongjheng District, Taipei City, 100-66, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Contact Information

If calling from Taiwan:

Tel: 02 2388 9393
Fax: 02 2311 1467

If calling from overseas:

Tel: +886 2 2388 9393
Fax: +866 2 2311 1467

Website

http://www.immigration.gov.tw

Email

boi@ms1.immigration.gov.tw

Activities

The National Immigration Agency was officially established in January 2007 as a part of the Ministry of the Interior. The launch of the immigration agency was in response to the influx of foreign brides from Southeast Asia and China. Currently, one of every five marriages in Taiwan consists of cross-nation partners and one of every nine newborns is the child of a foreign bride.

Some foreign brides are illegal immigrants who paid criminal rings to arrange fake marriage so they could come to work in Taiwan. However, because of this, Taiwan has adopted strict procedures to screen foreign brides. Even after the foreign brides have been allowed to enter Taiwan and get married, they must wait 10 to 15 years to get identification cards, without which they cannot work in Taiwan.

Meetings:

In order to proactively prevent trafficking in persons, the Executive Yuan set up the inter-ministry Trafficking in Person Prevention Coordinated Meeting in March 2007. Its second meeting was held on May 10th, 2007, arriving at many decisions that will be implemented by various ministries. The Executive Yuan has approved the Human Trafficking Prevention Action Plan that is being implemented by various ministries according to the responsibilities allocated to them.