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Continued residence after death or divorce from a Taiwan spouse where a minor child remains

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Which family relationships qualify?

This route covers a foreign national whose spouse was a Taiwan citizen with household registration and who has a minor child with household registration in Taiwan, where the applicant has actual care, exercises rights and duties, or maintains visitation/contact.

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Limits of the record
  • The official page is primarily an application-filing guide and does not state every independent eligibility consequence.
  • Official NIA 0915 filing guidance
    配偶死亡時為居住臺灣地區設有戶籍國民，並對在臺灣地區已設有戶籍未滿十八歲子女，有撫育事實、行使負擔權利義務或會面交往。

Who may sponsor or bring the family member, and what immigration/citizenship status must that person hold?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm who may sponsor the family member and the status the sponsor must hold.

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Limits of the record
  • Not established: the correction failed a second independent check (NAO_SUSTENTA: 'There is no living sponsor' is not in the citation and is misleading for the former-spouse (divorce) ground where the ex-spouse may be alive; rest matches (十).)

What is important for proving marriage, partnership, parentage, custody, dependency or another qualifying relationship?

Deceased-spouse ground: a marriage certificate authenticated by an ROC overseas mission (not needed if the household register already records the marriage), the original proof of the spouse's death or a household register showing the completed death registration, and the household register of the child under 18 with household registration in Taiwan (the child must be in Taiwan). Former-spouse ground: the authenticated marriage certificate on the same terms.

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What important financial, accommodation, insurance or maintenance responsibilities apply?

The applicant must document support of, or visitation with, the household-registered child under 18, e.g. a judicial ruling allowing visitation or custody, certificates from village/neighbourhood chiefs, the national spouse or relatives, government agencies or schools, or other documents such as payment receipts for tuition, health-insurance premiums or maintenance, call records or photos of visits. Proof of current residence address (e.g. a lease or the owner's consent with ownership documents) is also required. The official source does not state an income, insurance or maintenance amount.

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Limits of the record
  • No income, insurance or maintenance amount is stated for this ground.
  • https://www.immigration.gov.tw/5385/7244/7250/7317/%E5%B1%85%E7%95%99/181946/
    4、對在臺設有戶籍未滿十八歲子女有扶養事實或會面交往者，請附司法機關裁定准予會面交往或交付子女等證明、村（里）鄰長、國人配偶或其親屬、政府機關（以社政、衛政、民政、警政、榮民服務處等單位之證明資料為原則）、學校等出具證明或其他文件（如學雜費、健保費、扶養費等繳納證明、通聯記錄、會面交往生活照等）。
  • https://www.immigration.gov.tw/5385/7244/7250/7317/%E5%B1%85%E7%95%99/181946/
    六、現居住地證明(如租賃契約、屋主同意借住者檢附房屋所有權狀影本或國人屋主之身分證正反面影本及屋主同意說明書，或其他足資證明確為申請人實際居住地址之證明文件)。

How does the application work at a high level, what rights does the family member receive, how long does the status last, and how can it become independent or longer-term where officially stated?

The outcome is an Alien Resident Certificate; its validity begins on the day after approval. The official source does not state the rights granted or an automatic permanent-residence or citizenship result for this route.

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Limits of the record
  • Duration beyond the certificate rule and longer-term progression are not established here.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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