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[mep3]

Yeah. When I called the Macao TECO to ask what I need to bring to apply for the 60 day visa, they gave me a hard time about why I need a 60 day visa, which is par for the course I guess. I'm just asking -- if they turn down my 60 day visa application, I'll still be able to come in on a landing visa, is that right? One thing has no connection to the other?

Thx ... mep

[mep3]

I mean my plane will leave Macau for TW one or two days after I get my application back from TECO there. So as long as I could still get on the plane if they turned it down, it's no big deal. The only thing I can think of is that I'd have to buy a different flight out of TW (one leaving w/in 30 days rather than 60), but that wouldn't be a problem.

[foreignertobe]

To my understanding (just went through a visa run situation and had to investigate what would happen if the 60-day visitor's visa got denied), you can just enter on a "landing visa" and find employment at which point you can NOT get it extended in the country, but you CAN do a visa run and apply for a resident visa at a TECO office outside of Taiwan. That process, apparently, isn't really questioned (or questionable by the TECO staff).

[forest1979]

The best advice anyone can give to someone coming to Taiwan is to watch dvds of the BBC show "Little Britain". In it there is a clerical lady who no matter what people ask of her, upon typing on her keyboard, she always replies: "Computer says no." With this foolproof preparation in mind anyone will instantly know how to deal with unhelpful TECO staff.

[mep3]

So if your 60 day vv application is denied three days before your plane leaves, they won't stamp anything in your passport that will prevent you from getting on the plane without a visa?

mep

[clark.w.griswald]

Mep3 the answer to your question is �No�. If you get turned down for a visa then that won�t affect your chances of entering the country on a visa free entry (landing visa). Getting turned down for a visa does not make you an undesirable it just means that you applied for a visa category that the visa office considers incompatible with your stated purpose for visit.

As has been pointed out though the landing visa is non-extendable and non-transferable so no matter what happens on the job front you will need to leave the country before that visa free entry expires and come back in on a visa � perhaps a resident visa if you can get all of the paperwork arranged before you leave.

I think that the whole thing is a case of silly-buggers. Whether people come in on a 30, 60, or 90 day visa, the chances are that if they are young and single that they are coming here looking for work. Provided that they get legal for the work that they want to take on I don�t understand why they make it so difficult for everyone. They concentrate more on finding people working here illegally than making legitimate arrivees jump through hoops!