Special permanent residence for a trafficking victim

Article 26 If the human trafficking victim is a national without household registration in the Taiwan Area, foreigner, stateless person, People of the Mainland Area, Hong Kong or Macau resident, and his/her personal safety may be threatened after his/her repatriation back to his/her country (area) of origin, the central competent authority may grant him/her permanent residence in R.O.C. (Taiwan) under ad hoc permission.

Article 26 If the human trafficking victim is a national without household registration in the Taiwan Area, foreigner, stateless person, People of the Mainland Area, Hong Kong or Macau resident, and his/her personal safety may be threatened after his/her repatriation back to his/her country (area) of origin, the central competent authority may grant him/her permanent residence in R.O.C. (Taiwan) under ad hoc permission.

The competent authorities and labor affairs competent authorities at all levels shall, either by themselves or by commissioning non-governmental organizations, provide human trafficking victims or suspected ones with the following assistance: 1. Protection of personal safety; 2. Necessary medical assistance; 3. Interpretation assistance; 4. Legal assistance; 5. Psychological advice and counseling; 6. Being accompanied when questioned (interrogated) throughout the investigation or trial; 7. Rental subsidies and others necessary financial assistance. 8. Consulting and referral of social welfare service resources 9. Employability skills and education training 10. Placement services 11. Other necessary assistance.

Suspected human trafficking victim shall not be forcibly deported from the State (territory) before the identification or the objection to identification results are decided.

Those who are granted the ad hoc permission for permanent residence are allowed to work during his/her permanent residence in R.O.C. (Taiwan). In the case of victim of human trafficking has been granted permanent residence pursuant to paragraph 1, no such period of residence is applicable to the calculation of residence for the purpose of applying for long term residence, permanent residence, registered permanent residence, or naturalization required by other applicable laws.

Article 3 The competent authorities referred to in this Act: the Ministry of the Interior at the central government level; municipal governments at the municipal level; county (city) governments at the county (city) level.

The application procedures of the ad hoc permission for permanent residence in the preceding paragraph, required documents in application, qualifications, the cancellation of the residence permit and other binding regulations shall be developed by the central competent authority.

Article 10 The judicial police authority and labor affairs competent authority shall set up 24-hour special channels, online platforms or telephone hotlines for the reporting of human trafficking.