A Multiple Entry Visa for Taiwan
Aristotle
is the best visa you can get just for asking. With a Multiple Entry
Visa you can stay unharassed for up to 6 months with extensions and
easily downgrade it to an ARC or just make visa runs to stay longer
(technically they are not visa runs because you already have a visa).
Different Taiwan visa offices have different regulations on how to get
one.
There is no such thing as a work visa issued to non Chinese on Taiwan.
Your right to work is taken from you as soon as you enter the ROC on
Taiwan and given to your employer. The closest thing to a work permit
as it is known in real countries is an Open Work Permit but non Chinese
on Taiwan will never be eligible for free and equal rights to work
under the government that currently claims to control Taiwan (ROC) with
the same rights and protections as Taiwanese have in your country of
origin.
Taiwan is a non nation controlled by gangsters and governed by an
infamously racist and corrupt occupational government.
A Multiple Entry Visa is the easiest to change into an ARC and re-entry
permit. Multiple Entry Visa's are usually associated with non Chinese
business people. Non Chinese business people are the cash cows for
local businesses. Local businesses on Taiwan are notorious for their
affiliation with organized crime thus if an immigration officials
refuses to grant entry or a visa of any kind to a foreign business
person it may have grave repercussions for that government official.
Organized crime trumps law and government on Taiwan. In fact organized
crime is the most effective branch of the occupational government on
Taiwan.
A little preparation goes a long way and a Multiple Entry Visa is the
best visa you can get for coming to Taiwan, allowing you the ease of
travel and the room to negotiate for a better position.
If you have to make a visa run (most people do) because your ARC
application period is longer than your current visa all you need do is
go the beach in Thailand or have a beer in Hong Kong then come home and
you get another 60 days to 6 months.
A business oriented Multiple Entry Visa gives you more options and
subjects people to less restrictions than those that are usually
imposed by the occupational government for non Chinese on Taiwan.
Yes, the ROC cronies will attempt to discourage you from getting a
Multiple Entry Visa because that is the only option that the occupation
government on Taiwan has for discouraging teachers from getting a
Multiple Entry Visa for business purposes. Once you have one, any
government official who attempts to harass you has to assume they
taking a chance with their career and possibly a lot more.
Working with or without the sanction of the occupational government on
Taiwan is a personal choice that each of has to make. The fact that the
occupational government arbitrarily enforces their racist policies and
discriminatory practices on Taiwan against non Chinese with little to
no judicial review should be an indication of the reality that is
Taiwan.
Taiwan is now and always has been a lawless island ruled by fear an
oppression. It is what it is! You can ignore it, bash it, complain
about it , fight or like the vast majority of those with the means just
leave it. It really doesn't matter because this is Taiwan! If you want
to live here you need to find a way to do it, that works for you.
Good luck!
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