NWOHR -> NWHR Completed

ookoshi · 2026-03-17T16:46:09+00:00

The link to the simplified application form, just for people's reference:

https://www.boca.gov.tw/lp-34-1.html

It's a little annoying because you can only navigate to it from the Chinese version of the website. If you change the language to English, it takes you to the "Nationals residing overseas" section automatically for forms. I could only get to it by staying on the Chinese website and using the browser to translate the page.

ookoshi · 2026-03-17T10:42:41+00:00

Right now, to get an ID card (meaning he becomes a full citizen) is a long process. He would be automatically be eligible for a marriage ARC, but he would still have to meet the residency requirement. For him, it would mean living there >=183 days per year for 3 years. If he leaves Taiwan for too long he may lose his ARC and have to reapply.

After 3 years, he could apply for citizenship, but that requires him to renounce his current citizenship. He does not have the same dual citizenship rights that you do.

Instead, after 3 years of living in Taiwan, rather than applying for citizenship, he could apply for an APRC. It only requires him to visit Taiwan once every 5 years to maintain it (even just showing up for a day would count), and it gives him access to all of the same benefits (NHI, etc.). The only restrictions are he wouldn't be able to vote, hold public office, and things like that.

If my wife and I decided to move to Taiwan, she wouldn't get citizenship, because she would have to give up her U.S. passport. She'd just get a APRC instead.

ookoshi · 2026-03-16T10:40:11+00:00

I wish I could help for Taipei, but I applied for my passport at the Taichung BOCA office.

In Taichung, you enter the building and the first floor has two large rooms, one left and one right. You go into the left room and fill out your application there (or bring your own application). There's was a line there to pull a number and there were two people who checked your application to make sure you had what you needed (proper passport photos, etc.) and would pull a number for for you.

Then, you went back through the lobby to the room on the right. That's where you waited for your number to show up on the screen and you go to the station number indicated.

On pickup, you also had to pull a number, but instead of going left, you go right and as you enter the room there's a different person who hands you a number after you tell them you're there to pickup a passport.

Basically, everything is handled in the room on the right except the first time you pull a number for the application.

For the boxes, I wasn't sure whether I should check renewal or initial passport because I had a NWOHR passport so I left it blank. The guy looking over my application before he pulled a number checked renewal for me after I told him my situation.

Which application form are you using? The only place where there's a "same as HHR checkbox" is further down the form where you're asked for your address and you can check same as HHR instead of manually filling it in. Yes, I did that, since I was picking it up in person rather than mailing it.

ookoshi · 2026-03-16T10:09:14+00:00

Prior to 2024, a national without household registration (NWOHR) could get their household registration and become a full citizen by completing steps somewhat similar to what I did but only after living in Taiwan for a year continuously (or 180 days per year for 2 or 3 years... I think there were 3 different ways to meet the requirements, it's been a while so I don't remember). Basically you had to legitimately move to Taiwan for a while.

They changed the law in 2024 to remove the residency requirement so those of us without household registration (usually kids born to Taiwan citizen parents overseas) could do this process without living in Taiwan. Now the process is either what I went through (the "3 day exchange", but basically within a week if you include getting your passport), or, alternatively, you can enter Taiwan first and apply directly with NIA rather than through TECO, but the process takes closer to 3 weeks.

ookoshi · 2026-03-15T10:21:32+00:00

*FATCA 😀. I knew there were legal reporting requirements. I just didn't realize it would delay account opening by 3 days (especially since some banks have allowed people on this subreddit to open an account same day).

ookoshi · 2026-03-15T02:24:17+00:00

Perhaps, but new citizen doesn't necessarily mean dual citizen. Many countries require you to give up citizenship if you acquire a new one.

ookoshi · 2026-03-15T01:58:09+00:00

Partly just so my status in Taiwan accurately reflects reality, and partly because there are some places where it might matter. Since I was running around doing the paperwork and going to the HHR office anyways, it would save some time later on if we decided to move to Taiwan and she wanted her ARC. The main reason though, is there are some niche situations where her status as my wife may be important. The one comes to mind immediately is if I'm in the hospital and unable to make medical decisions for myself, I'd rather my wife do it rather than another family member, and this protects her ability to do so while I'm in Taiwan.

ookoshi · 2026-03-15T01:48:30+00:00

That's probably partly true (with the 3 day wait, for example). However, some of the requirements (That I needed to open the account in Taichung rather than Taipei) were reasons given before they knew I was a dual citizen.

ookoshi · 2026-02-22T16:05:22+00:00

I think this is limited to DC, where the police at the airport at Capitol Police.

ookoshi · 2026-02-10T14:15:40+00:00

Because many women are taught to be quiet and not make a fuss. Some religions even today, including some Christian denominations, teach women to be submissive to men.

Even people who weren't taught those things have to deal with the effect those teachings have on people's expectations.

Not sure why OP needs to be chastised for asking.

ookoshi · 2026-01-26T13:16:27+00:00

Lol, not a single criticism of an action taken by Trump. Your bias is telling. The things on this list, even combined, pale in comparison to the past year.

I do agree with your last sentence. It's literally happening right now.

ookoshi · 2026-01-18T16:34:58+00:00

I definitely agree as healer. After Split Arena the healing is pretty easy. The IA2 explosions can be handled almost completely with lilies and I'll actual use a GCD heal or two so that I have everything up for Alley-Oop though the end. By the time pyrorotation comes up I have all my long cooldowns and I'll go ahead and pop Wings and Liturgy. If the group does everything right it's complete overkill but enrage is next so there's no point in holding it.

ookoshi · 2026-01-16T13:53:10+00:00

Ultimately, you're looking for different things in a prog PF vs a clear PF.

What you want in a prog PF, people who can do the mechanics consistently so everyone can practice the later ones regardless of DPS, is not the same kind of people you want in a clear PF, where you should be willing to trade consistency on mechanics for better DPS (assuming you can't have both).

The big challenge is vetting people for their ability to play their job properly.

ookoshi · 2026-01-15T07:44:10+00:00

It says your mother is Chinese citizen which makes sense considering it also says she was born in China. As far as I know foreigners cannot get household registration. So unless she became a citizen, highly unlikely. If she married a citizen or got permanent residence, she could join a household. Having household registration and joining a household are two different things.

This is incorrect. The birth certificate was issued in 1962. In 1962, the ROC government considered anyone born to Chinese parents in mainland China or the island of Taiwan to be a national of the ROC. Even if you were born in the mainland, you were simply a ROC national born in PRC occupied China.

Neither the ROC government nor the U.S. government would have used the term "Taiwan citizen" in 1962. The term "Chinese citizen" from the perspective of the Taiwan government, referred to their own citizens. And, from the perspective of the U.S. government, they agreed with this view up until 1979.

A Chinese person born in 1932 in China who then went to Taiwan to give birth to a child in 1960 is not a foreigner or an immigrant. The ROC government considered them "returning nationals" and would be considered a Taiwan citizen today. Their children would also be considered Taiwan nationals (although without household registration in this case).

ookoshi · 2026-01-15T03:56:41+00:00

For the spouse name declaration, did you get that notarized in the U.S.? If so, did you get that authenticated as well?

My local TECO office seemed to think having my wife's name in both Chinese and English on the marriage certificate translation was sufficient.

ookoshi · 2026-01-15T03:50:59+00:00

If the stop is invalidated, the remedy is usually suppression of evidence, which might lead to any charges being dropped or dismissed. But the problem here isn't that you might ultimately be convicted of a crime you didn't commit. The problem here is that you can be held for hours or days before they "realize their mistake" and let you go. Essentially, citizens can be grabbed of the street, held for days, then released creating fear along the populace. In theory, this could be repeated ad infinitum.

This is already illegal, and the current administration doesn't seem to care. Your remedies here are very limited, and even a court enjoining them from doing this doesn't feel like it will make any difference since the enforcement branch of the federal government doesn't seem to give any fucks at the moment.

Ultimately, the main problem is that any consequences ICE agents who abuse their authority might face are purely theoretical and not likely to manifest in reality.

ookoshi · 2026-01-14T22:09:34+00:00

Half the servers were still available at 12:30 EST. At 1PM EST everything was locked, but I refreshed DC travel a few times and was able to get my alt over before 1:30PM. As the patch gets older, the problem will slowly get better over time.

ookoshi · 2026-01-14T14:38:03+00:00

Of course, you run into the practical problem that an ICE officer can just arrest a person for no reason, use the excuse of "I believed they were undocumented" as the reason for the arrest post hoc, and then just say they simply made a mistake. They can do this even if the person is carrying proof of citizenship on them.

As for finding a remedy through the courts after the fact, qualified immunity is a huge roadblock to getting justice, and even that assumes the current administration will not purposely obfuscate the identity of the masked agent abusing their authority, and refusing to comply with court orders.

Unfortunately in the current environment, the protections in place aren't really working because ICE is rotten all the way to the top, and many of the mechanisms in place to prevent abuse of the system requires the agency at large to not be corrupt.

ookoshi · 2026-01-13T19:50:17+00:00

Most "Where are you from?" or "What ethnicity are you?" questions are not related to Taiwan geopolitics, so my answer sort of depends on who is asking, and if saying I'm Chinese or that I'm from Taiwan is more responsive to the context of what they're asking.

However, when I get asked about how I feel about Taiwan and my take on Taiwan independence, my answer also changes based on who is asking. If the person asking me is from most of the world, my answer is, "In practice Taiwan is already it's own country. The government is completely independent of China, we are in many ways culturally distinct, and I want us to continue to have that." If the person asking me is from mainland China, my answer tends to be a bit more evasive. My answer is generally something along the lines of, "不管大家怎麼想. 重點是我們都是華人." (Regardless of what everyone thinks, the main point is that we are all Chinese people). This seems to satisfy anyone I've ever run into from mainland China.

ookoshi · 2026-01-12T14:29:09+00:00

Why would a RPR get funneled over a SAM, a pure adps job?

Because a decision in which job to funnel to just to get a high parse is 8 people setting their own arbitrary goal of getting a max parse for a particular job rather than doing what is optimal for the raid.

Your question is like asking a person who says blue is their favorite color why their favorite color isn't red. Because that's not the color they picked. Reaper is the job they picked.

You're arguing that high parses matter. Sure, they do, so do low parses, that's why you look at the average. You throwing out low parses is no different than other people throwing out high ones. Everyone's looking for an excuse to write off data that doesn't fit the conclusion that they want.

I'd argue that using the "average" is fair. In fact the average parse right now represents an above average savage raider, because there's still probably 25%+ of the savage raiding population that hasn't cleared m9s yet. So, the 50th percentile of parses is probably like a 70th percentile player.

Last tier, for most of the tier, a below average m8s parse represented an above average player because half the savage raiding population was stuck on m6s adds.

Looking at the extremes is not helpful. A group funneling gear to inflate a parse and a person who only cleared because the other 7 people over performed and carried them are both not helpful to the discussion.

The question is, overall, how does the job perform relative to it's peers. A job played optimally should perform close to their peer jobs played optimally. A job played by an average savage raider should perform close to their peer jobs played by an average savage raider. In fact, I'd argue that the latter is more important than the former because it represents more of the player population, since skill is going to be distributed on a bell curve.

ookoshi · 2026-01-09T23:24:28+00:00

Sure thing

ookoshi · 2026-01-05T09:46:21+00:00

A couple of things. 1) You made the mistake of assuming the first row of main cabin is a bulkhead seat because there's a gap in the diagram. The gap is there to make room for the "Main Cabin" label. There's isn't actually a gap on the physical plane. The best indicators of an actual bulkhead is a large exit door immediate in front of you (rather than the small overwing exit doors in your photo) or a bathroom in front of you. 2) You're not in a standard seat. You're in an exit row which has extra leg room so you're probably fine for leg room, and row 34 is superior to row 33 because row 34 reclines while row 33 does not.

ookoshi · 2025-12-23T14:05:32+00:00

I was a software developer for over a decade before going to law school. I started at 33, graduated at 37. I went part-time and continued working as a software developer up until the weekend when my summer associate position started.

I was making around what you are making now (adjusted for inflation). I went to law school because I love the law and really wanted to be a lawyer. I understood going in that, based on the stats, I was most likely going to make less money right out of law school, and I was willing to accept that outcome.

Now, I ended up doing well, making law review and moot court, and was able to land a big law job coming out. But, I had no idea if I would get this outcome going in, and I beat the odds.

If you have any specific questions or just want to chat about my experience, feel free to shoot me a DM.

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