By Abraham Gerber / Staff reporterThe Nationality Act (國籍法) should be revised to remove provisions that allow the citizenship of naturalized foreign spouses to be revoked, rights campaigners said yesterday, adding that a clearly defined citizenship revocation cut-off period was lacking. The exemption was passed last year among amendments to expedite the citizenship process, including giving foreign spouses up to a year after gaining Republic of China (ROC) citizenship to renounce other citizenships. “The way changes were made has created a situation in which foreign spouses live in fear because they are never given a definitive residency guarantee,” Labor Rights Association executive director Wang Chuan-ping (王娟萍) said. “The problem with the article is that these people give up their citizenships,” National Chengchi University associate professor of law Bruce Liao (廖元豪) said. There is a backlog of more than 80 foreign spouses from Vietnam who have had their ROC citizenship revoked, with the Vietnamese government only restoring citizenship to two individuals each year, Ly said.

Source: Taipei Times September 13, 2017 16:02 UTC