Teacher Loses Legal Status Over Chinese Household Registration Document

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The Mainland Affairs Council has revoked the legal status of a Taiwanese teacher after he was found to have obtained a document for household registration in China last year. Under cross-strait laws, Taiwanese citizens are barred from having household registration in China.

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00:00A teacher has lost his Taiwanese status for obtaining a household registration document

00:05in China.

00:06It's the first such case since the government issued a new interpretation order in April.

00:11The Mainland Affairs Council, which governs relations with China, recently revoked the

00:14legal status of the teacher, surnamed Zhang, after he was found to have obtained a document

00:19for household registration in China last year.

00:22Under cross-strait regulations, Taiwanese people are barred from having household registration

00:26in China or risk losing their legal status in Taiwan.

00:30The council issued an interpretation in April detailing the Chinese documents that Taiwanese

00:34people are not allowed to hold.

00:36We have already closed Zhang Liqi's身份.

00:40If he wants to come to Taiwan, he must be according to the United States條例, to

00:46submit a contract, and to submit it.

00:52The council clarified that Taiwanese are allowed to hold Chinese documents that don't require

00:56household registration.

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