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Pathways to Taiwanese Residency and Citizenship

Taiwan

Taiwan draws skilled professionals, founders, and remote workers with its Employment Gold Card and other residency routes, and offers citizenship by descent to people with Taiwanese parentage. This guide gathers the country's main residency and citizenship routes and links to a full breakdown of each.

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Ways to qualify

Career & business

For people with a job offer, in-demand skills, or a business to build. Most of these routes lead to settlement, and in time to citizenship.

Taiwan Gold Card This is a Taiwan residence route for highly skilled professionals in designated fields. It generally requires strong credentials or income in an… residency Taiwan Entrepreneur Visa This residence pathway is for founders building a startup or innovative business in Taiwan. It generally requires an eligible business idea, enough… residency

Family

For joining a partner, parent, or child who already lives there — or claiming citizenship through marriage.

Taiwan Spouse Residence Taiwan's spouse resident visa is for the foreign spouse of a Republic of China national. It generally requires proof of the marriage, the ROC spouse's… residency

Ancestry & heritage

A parent, grandparent, or birth in the country can make you a citizen already — or let you claim it, often without relocating.

Taiwan Citizenship by Parent Taiwan/ROC nationality by parentage is for people whose parent was an ROC national when they were born. It generally requires proof of the… citizenship