Using old documents to register parents’ foreign marriage + apply for 定居證？
hellooo!
I need someone to tell me if I’m being paranoid or not. So I currently have my NWOHR passport and am planning to return to Taiwan this fall to complete the conversion process by applying for the settlement permit directly in Taiwan (longer 3 week process.)
When I applied for this passport last year, I had to get my birth certificate and parents’ marriage certificate authenticated. There was an addendum on the authentication page of the marriage certificate, along the lines of “the marriage must be registered within 30 days of authentication to avoid penalties.”
Obviously that didn’t happen (my parents never registered marriage in Taiwan) and by the time I return to Taiwan, the marriage certificate authentication will be about a year old. I’m nervous that it might be rejected as too old to register my parents’ marriage or apply for the settlement permit. I’m cool with paying any fines or whatever, I just don’t want to get there and be turned away with no recourse. From my understanding, Teco authentications don’t expire. However, I’ve read that if someone wants to register their marriage, the marriage certificate must be recently issued/authenticated ~ 3 months. I don’t know if that applies to parents’ marriage certificate. My father will be present with me during this process if that makes a difference.
If anyone has experience with using older documents successfully for this, please do weigh in! Someone else I spoke to on this subreddit said they used a 3-4 month old marriage certificate and it was fine though I’m worried a little over a year old may be pushing it. I’ll probably try emailing the HHRO to see what they say, though if anyone has firsthand experience to help alleviate or confirm my worries that’d be great.
I’m making sure my FBI bg check is under a year old, and my health check will be done just before applying. The birth certificate authentication will be about 8 months old by the time I’m back to Taiwan.