By Abraham Gerber / Staff reporterA proposed amendment to the Nationality Act (國籍法) would make foreign spouses more vulnerable to threats from their Taiwanese spouse, activists said yesterday, calling for the bill to be put on hold until the offending portions are dropped. The law already allows citizenship to be revoked within five years for illegal behavior or fraud, but the amendment would drop the five-year time limit for citizenship acquired through a fake marriage. “Husbands are liable to be fined depending upon how much money they earned from the fake marriage, but they can always claim that they did not receive any money,” she said. “If a husband ‘turns himself in,’ he faces relatively little risk, but the wife faces losing her citizenship, insurance, social benefits and the right to work. Because she has already been forced to renounce her original citizenship, she becomes illegal and stateless at the same time,” Hsiao said.

Source: Taipei Times December 01, 2016 16:02 UTC