The land affairs business closely relates to people’s daily life. Services such as land purchase and sale, actual price registration, land identification, etc., all connect to people’s rights and interests. However, as the legislation is relatively challenging to navigate when immigrant residents have questions about land and housing, they hardly express their problems clearly due to language barriers.
Taiwan on Wednesday launched a new 1990 hotline to offer consultation services in seven languages to foreign nationals living in the country, according to the Ministry of the Interior (MOI).
As the “International Mother Language Day” is on February 21, the Ministry of the Interior National Immigration Agency (NIA) launched the Podcast program “Talks on Cultures & Immigrants’ journeys”. The program was produced and broadcasted by the second generation of immigrants, inviting immigrant’s children to share their experiences while residing in Taiwan, as well as to encourage them to use their native languages more often.
Understandably, migrant workers might fall in love with someone in Taiwan. However, if individuals get pregnant, they will face problems including losing their jobs or not having household registration for their children.
On February 14th, 2022, Eve of Lantern Festival, National Central Library held on-line Lunar New Year reception for visiting scholars. More than 30 scholars interacted and paid one another a courtesy call during Lunar New Year period by using videoconferencing to experience Lunar New Year reunion!
The super typhoon Rai crashed into the Philippines last year, resulting in at least 400 deaths and hundreds of thousands of homeless people.
With an aim to attract foreign professionals to work in Taiwan, those adult children of theirs can apply for work permits themselves according to the Act for the Recruitment and Employment of Foreign Professionals.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been strongly promoted in New Taipei City, and a “New Taipei X National Taiwan Normal University X VIA Technologies” government-industry-university collaboration ceremony was held at “New Taipei Municipal Fuhe Junior High School” on January 17.
With the Lunar New Year just around the corner, the NIA Hualien County Service Center held its first New Immigrant Families Lesson in 2022, the new immigrant families were invited to celebrate this holiday together. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many new immigrant families haven’t visited their loved ones in their home countries for a long time.
The Tokyo Olympic Games were not the only sporting event postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Athletes can now put a new competition on their schedules for this year.
