Surveying is the basis for determining the boundary, and it also is the fundamental to promote national construction. The results of the survey are related to the people’s land property rights, and its quality depends on the quality of the measuring instruments. The National Land Surveying and Mapping Center, Ministry of the Interior (NLSC) has established the Surveying Instrument Calibration Laboratory (SICL) and has been providing calibration services for surveying instruments since 2012, including Total Station, Theodolite, GPS, Airborne Photogrammetry Camera, Light Detection and Ranging and Small Format Airborne Camera. The amount of instrument calibrations from 172 in 2012 to 434 in 2019, increased by 1.5 times. This shows that each government office and surveying company has paid more attention to the calibration of surveying instruments, and has implemented it in the content of various operation specifications. For more information about calibration services, you can browse the Service Web (https://sicl.nlsc.gov.tw/).

If one from Mainland China married to an R.O.C. citizen, before their first entry to Taiwan, an application for marriage interview to the National Immigration Agency is needed. Once arrived at Taiwan’s border (airports or seaports), both of them shall be interviewed separately by immigration officers. The officers will carefully consider the statements from both sides to determine the relationship genuine or not. If there is some discrepancy between their two descriptions, the applicants will be denied or undergo a second interview after their entry. In 2012, the overall applications reached 10,283 cases, while 86.9% of the applicants (8,936 cases) passed at border interview. Last year (2019), the numbers had declined to 5,032 cases with 91.3% (4,592 cases) passed at border. It shows that the tendency of marriage between citizens and people from Mainland China has been decreased greatly, and the numbers of fake marriage also drop during these years.

In Taiwanese traditional thought -“real estate will bring wealth,” which means that owning a real estate is an ultimate life goal.In the end of August 2019, total number of unmarried people who owns more than one real estate are 548,142, which male takes 280,739 and female takes 267,403.Observing from the cities and counties, New Taipei city leads the most people mentioned on the above, followed by Taipei city. Also, female’s numbers are more than male’s, which indicates that female’s capability of buying real estates enhance profoundly. Besides, the first and second rank of the non municipalities is Changhua County and Pingtung County.

The Ministry of the Interior completed the construction of national household administration operations in 2016. It provides home registration, nationality change, and document issuance services for those who are 65 years of age, have severe mobility problems, or have children under 6 years of age. It also provides flexible application services for household administration offices across the country to enhance the benefits of convenience services. This measure measures 24,598 cases from 2017 to 2019. According to the target cases, 13,995 cases aged 65 or older accounted for 56.9%, and 5,799 cases of critically ill patients accounted for 23.6%, followed by limbs. Physical disability cases accounted for 10.3% of the total number of cases, ranking third, 1,956 cases of caring for children under 6 years of age accounted for 8%, and 307 cases of disaster response accounted for the least 1.2%.

In 2019, there were 3,438 foreigner have become the ROC citizens through naturalization. Among them, the country of origin is Vietnam with the largest number of 2,325, accounting for 67.6% of the total naturalized population. Followed by 362 is the Philippines, accounting for 10.5% of the total naturalized population. Third is 350 Indonesian, accounting for 10.2% of the total naturalized population. In addition to the above three countries, there are also nationals from Thailand, Malaysia, and other countries who choose to naturalize our nationality. It can be seen that the majority of naturalized nationals are Southeast Asian origin.

Simply click on the National ID Section of the Department of Household Registration, Ministry of the Interior's official website (https://www.ris.gov.tw), then click on Loss of National ID Card Application and Cancellation of Application (Citizen Digital Certificate not required) and enter your personal details to apply for a loss of National ID Card.
In order to prevent unlawful parties from obtaining your National ID Card and canceling your loss of National ID Card application using the details on the card, when applying for a loss of National ID Card, it is imperative to designate a "predetermined password for cancellation of loss National ID Card application". When applying for cancellation of loss of National ID Card, simply enter the "predetermined password for cancellation of loss National ID Card application" to protect your rights.

In order to let the public apply for birth registration as early as possible, so as to protect the rights of the newborn baby with government services that are designed to cater to the needs of the public, citizens may apply for birth registration at any household registration office of the special municipality, county or city where their domicile place is registered. In addition, MOI would like to remind the public that in order to implement household register management, birth registrations should be based on the actual domicile place.

The National Immigration Agency of the Ministry of the Interior provides online application for foreign students, overseas Chinese students, Mainland China students, Hong Kong and Macao students, and Nationals-without-registered-household-in-the-Taiwan-Area students to apply for Alien Resident Certificate and exit & entry permit. The Student Online Application System offers services 24 hours, all year round and in addition to the newly added feature of “pay at 4 major convenience stores in Taiwan”, which provides students to pay at the convenience store nearby. We welcome you to give it a try!

The Automatic Clearance System (e-Gate) is the most convenient way for immigration clearance. In Songshan Airport, Taoyuan Airport, Taichung Airport, Kaohsiung Airport, and Kinmen Harbor, there are multiple gates have been implemented by National Immigration Agency. Such system offers a self-help, quick, and convenient way to clear immigration. Besides, younger applicants, from the original age 14 lowered to age 12, are now eligible for enrollment. Such approach is according to newly amended “Directions Governing Application and Usage of e-Gate,”. Now more kids can clear immigration with their parents!

To facilitate real estate transfers, the Ministry of the Interior worked with the Ministry of Finance to implement the real estate transfer system integration plan.The E-filing System for Local Tax has allowed access to and import of land, building, and cadastral maps online. Applicants may check cadastral information using the system and import cadastral information on the subject of transfers, which reduces time to input data and cost of transcript application.