Taiwan Citizenship by Parent
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See if you're a match →Taiwan/ROC nationality by parentage is for people whose parent was an ROC national when they were born. It generally requires proof of the parent-child link and may involve separate household-registration, passport, or residence steps for people born abroad.
- Type
- Citizenship by descent
- Family line
- People with a documented family line to Taiwan
- Core records
- Civil records linking each generation
- What to know
- Usually a strong right if the facts and records line up
Summary
Taiwan's nationality law says a person has Republic of China nationality if their father or mother was an ROC national when they were born. This means some people with a Taiwanese or ROC-national parent may already have ROC nationality.
Nationality and household registration are not the same thing. A person born abroad may need additional passport, residence, or household-registration steps before they can live in Taiwan as a full household-registered national.
Eligibility
- Your father or mother was an ROC national when you were born
- You can document the parent-child relationship
- You can document the parent's ROC nationality
- You can address household-registration or passport steps if you were born abroad
- Any military-service issue is reviewed before relying on status
What This Route Allows
This route can help confirm or document citizenship in Taiwan when the citizenship-creating facts named above are proven. For many people in this category, the main work is evidence: civil records, family-link records, prior citizenship records, and any registration or restoration paperwork needed to show the claim.
What This Route Is Not
This is not a shortcut around documentation. Even when the citizenship claim is based on a right, you still need records that prove each required fact and family link.
Key Documents
- Your birth certificate
- Parent's ROC passport, household registration, or nationality evidence
- Parents' marriage or parentage records, if relevant
- Authenticated foreign civil documents
- Translations into Chinese or English where required
Next Steps
- Confirm whether either parent was an ROC national at your birth.
- Gather birth and parentage records.
- Check whether the parent had household registration.
- Ask the Taiwan overseas mission or household-registration authority which proof route applies.
- Review passport, residence, household-registration, and military-service consequences before acting.