Overseas Chinese Draftees are migrated to a foreign country before the Recruiting Age. The government has taken into consideration the need of Overseas Chinese to deal with quotidian affairs once they return to Taiwan. Therefore, Conscription Regulations for Naturalized Aliens & Returning Overseas Chinese has been amended to accommodate the need of Overseas Chinese draftees, allowing them a period of acclimatization; that is, they shall be subjected to military service enlistment only after expiry of one-year period beginning the day next to his return to the Republic of China (Taiwan).
In order to decrease the cross-border movement of people and to reduce the risk of disease transmission through air transport, may increase the intensity of community transmission of COVID-19, and risk for infection to overseas Chinese draftees returning to their original countries. Since the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020 has declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic, until 31 December 2021, Ministry of the Interior announced the period conforming to the requirements of deferred enlistment shall not be counted into the period of residence, just like the SARS outbreak in 2003.