OFW Taiwan Clearance.

[AJabad 3]

Hello everyone and hope you guys are doing great. My fiance(e) in the Philippines was employed in Taiwan right before I met her. She went back home to the Philippines in 2009 and that's when we both met in real person and in 2010 our son was born. Now, She's only 8 days away from her interview at the US Embassy but our main concern is? Does she still need to get a Clearance from Taiwan since she worked there for the last 8 years of her career?? She has all her employment records but does she still need to get the clearance since she's now in the Philippines? Because she's concerned that this may be part of the US Embassy Requirements during her interview K-1 process? Anyone please your help is appreciated. Thank you and god bless you all...

[good_asian 0]

Hello everyone and hope you guys are doing great. My fiance(e) in the Philippines was employed in Taiwan right before I met her. She went back home to the Philippines in 2009 and that's when we both met in real person and in 2010 our son was born. Now, She's only 8 days away from her interview at the US Embassy but our main concern is? Does she still need to get a Clearance from Taiwan since she worked there for the last 8 years of her career?? She has all her employment records but does she still need to get the clearance since she's now in the Philippines? Because she's concerned that this may be part of the US Embassy Requirements during her interview K-1 process? Anyone please your help is appreciated. Thank you and god bless you all...

[Chuward 5]

Yes, she needs to have a Taiwan Clearance. I was working before in Taiwan too then i request to have one. Check online the website of Taipie Police Department then they will give instruction what to do.

[good_asian 0]

OTHER COUNTRY POLICE CERTIFICATES. Applicants aged 16 years and older must also present police certificates from other countries where they have lived for six (6) months or more after reaching the age of 16. As with NBI clearances, foreign police certificates should be obtained in any maiden names, aliases or nicknames used while in the country in question, including different spellings you have used of those names. Country-specific information on how to secure police certificates is available on the State Department’s website at http://travel.state.gov/visa/fees/fees_3272.html.

As i know your fiance must apply a police clearance at Taiwan embassy. she should bring the police clearance at US embassy during her interview.

[Wally G! 58]

Hello everyone and hope you guys are doing great. My fiance(e) in the Philippines was employed in Taiwan right before I met her. She went back home to the Philippines in 2009 and that's when we both met in real person and in 2010 our son was born. Now, She's only 8 days away from her interview at the US Embassy but our main concern is? Does she still need to get a Clearance from Taiwan since she worked there for the last 8 years of her career?? She has all her employment records but does she still need to get the clearance since she's now in the Philippines? Because she's concerned that this may be part of the US Embassy Requirements during her interview K-1 process? Anyone please your help is appreciated. Thank you and god bless you all...

Yes she will need to get the Taiwan Police Clearance.

POLICE CERTIFICATES. Applicants aged 16 years and older must also present police certificates from other countries where they have lived for six (6) months or more after reaching the age of 16. As with NBI clearances, foreign police certificates should be obtained in any maiden names, aliases or nicknames used while in the country in question, including different spellings you have used of those names. Country-specific information on how to secure police certificates is available on the State Department’s website at http://travel.state.gov/visa/fees/fees_3272.html.

Police Records

http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/fees/fees_5455.html?cid=9776#docs

Taiwan issues police certificates, although the information is not always comprehensive. Also, legislation is pending in Taiwan that will cause criminal convictions resulting in a penalty of a fine, probation, a suspended sentence, or a sentence of less than two years be deleted from a person's criminal record. Crimes committed by juveniles are not part of the criminal record. Therefore, under the new legislation, a police clearance certificate will not show these convictions. Crimes relevant to visa issuance may be included in those that may not be shown on a person's police clearance certificate. Conversely, convictions, once part of a person's record, remains in the person's record indefinitely. The information reported by the police on police clearance certificates is reliable, but applicants have been able to exclude relevant convictions by specifying specific dates for which the check is to be performed. Information recorded in police clearance certificates comes from a national database of criminal convictions that is updated weekly. If posts suspect that a Taiwan visa applicant is concealing a criminal conviction despite presentation of a clean police clearance certificate, posts should send a completed DS-156 with a photocopy of the bio page of the applicant's passport to the Fraud Prevention Unit at AIT.

Taiwan does not use a standard system for romanizing names, resulting in a wide range of name spellings. However, every Taiwan citizen is assigned a unique national identification number that never changes. Whenever possible, queries should include a person's national identification number. Applicants with Taiwan passports should apply for a police certificate from the police headquarters having jurisdiction over the county or city in which the applicant's household is registered, as recorded in the Household Registration certificate. A third party can assist in this application. Previous residents of Taiwan not holding a Taiwan passport may apply for a police certificate by writing to:

Foreign Affairs Division

Taipei Municipal Police Department

No. 96, Yen Ping South Road

Taipei, Taiwan

Applicants should enclose a completed application form (available from Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Offices (TECRO) or Republic of China Embassies). There is a processing fee of US$11.00). No police certificate is available for previous residents of Taiwan who were dependents of U.S. military personnel and covered by the Status of Forces Agreement or persons living in Taiwan prior to August 1945."

Taiwan Embassy in Philippines

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines

41F, Tower 1, RCBC Plaza, 6819 Ayala Avenue, Makati City

1200

Metro Manila

Philippines

Phone:

+63-2-8876688

Fax:

+63-2-8877679

Email:

phl@mofa.gov.tw

Website URL:

www.taiwanembassy.org/ph

I don't know how long it takes to receive the Police Clearance from Taiwan but you may have to reschedule or receive a request for the police clearance at the interview. If all else is together and good. They will keep her password and wait for the police clearance. Either way there will be a delay in your visa application process.

I also read that Filipino workers who left Taiwan would get their police clearance in the same day before departing Taiwan.

Hope this helps. Good Luck and God Bless.

Edited February 27, 2012 by Wally Greene

[Nilie 0]

I also have a checklist requesting for a police clearance from Taiwan. I hope I can get it at Taiwan Embassy in Manila