Taiwan has a requirement for one of its citizenship paths wherein you must renunciate your original citizenship. This is not something many of us interested in Taiwanese citizenship are willing to do. Therefore, I made a psuedo-petition with a simple question: would you seek Taiwanese citizenship if you didn’t have to renunciate your original citizenship?
It’s not a real petition because I’m not seeking to change policy: signing doesn’t mean you’re saying “Taiwan should change this policy,” it merely indicates that, should the policy not be the way it is, you’d seek citizenship. I had no plans to send it to the government or anything like that, just make the petition itself available as a resource for those interested in talking to people about the issue.
I released the petition as a Google Form a few months back, and it’s time to take a look at results. If you’re just finding this now, feel free to fill out the form, and I’ll update this post accordingly.
I had several categories of questions based on the level of anonymity people were seeking, so not all information about everyone will be made available.
Results
Names
17 people responded to the survey. 12 people were willing to have their name publicly listed on the petition:
- Caleb Rogers
- Gustavo Ricarte
- Hamish Tennent
- Joy Ong
- Colum Brolly
- Domingos Mascarenhas
- Michael Cannon
- Jonathan Golden
- Michael Cannon
- Patrick Ng
- John
- Alex
A further 5 people were comfortable with their names being shared with the Taiwanese government only. If you’re a representative of the Taiwanese government and are interested, feel free to email me at caleb at calebjay.com (I’ll need to confirm somehow you’re actually with the government, of course).
Length of Stay in Taiwan
14 people responded with how long they’ve stayed in Taiwan.
- 14.3% (2) have stayed less than 1 year
- 14.3% (2) have stayed less than 3 years
- 14.3% (2) have stayed less than 5 years
- 28.6% (4) have stayed less than 8 years
- 7.1% (1) have stayed less than 10 years
- 14.3% (2) have stayed more than 10 years
As an example, “Less than 8 years” implies the duration of stay is between 5-8 years.
Your Career, Job, Skillset, or Passion
The following were listed as careers or etc:
- Software Engineer, Motorcycling, Cooking, Photography, Writing
- Research and development manager. Love to help others to make their ideas into real products.
- Cofounder of an IT Consulting Firm
- Designer
- Healthcare
- Technical Publications Manager; AI & Machine Translation; Digital Teaching;
- Software Engineer
- Opera and classical music programming, artistic development, music teaching
- Chief Operating Officer
- Software Development
- Professional services executive
- Project manager at the Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center
- finance
Your Dream for a Life in Taiwan
The following were listed as dreams for a life in Taiwan:
- Integrating with local civic activists and hackers, creating video, photo, and text content about life in Taiwan, building up young engineering talents here, bringing in San Francisco rate engineering work, building a business that disrupts local labor standards in a way that benefits workers.
- Raise my family here and help the country to grow and flourish.
- Raise a family, work, live long term
- 身心靈老師
- Have a Taiwan ID card; be treated as normal;
- Remaining in Taiwan for life with my Taiwanese partner; contribute more deeply and meaningfully to Taiwanese society (including political participation); raise my children in Taiwan and give them Taiwanese citizenship.
- Hiker, Consultant
Contact Info
8 people were comfortable with their contact info being shared publicly. If you’re interested in following up with these people, feel free to email me at caleb at calebjay.com.