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Check your Taiwan visa-exempt allowance or Travel Authorization Certificate, passport validity, arrival card and the customs rules that carry real fines.
Taiwan admits most European, North American, Australian, Japanese and Korean citizens visa-free for 90 days, Singaporeans and Malaysians for 30, and several South East Asian nationalities for 14 under a renewable trial scheme — and none of those stays can normally be extended once you are in the country. This checklist tests your trip against the right admission, applies the six-month passport rule or the shorter rule that covers US, Canadian and Japanese citizens, and checks whether a free Travel Authorization Certificate issued on a given day is still usable on your arrival date.
Open Taiwan Entry Requirement Checklist on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Add your input to the workspace.
Adjust the options until the result looks right.
Copy or download the output and put it to work.
When the stay does not fit, the tool tells you to change route rather than plan to extend.
Applies the six-month rule or the shorter stay-covering rule depending on your nationality.
Enter the issue date and see the last day the Travel Authorization Certificate can be used.
Ninety days for citizens of most European countries, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Korea; 30 days for Singaporean and Malaysian nationals; and 14 days for several South East Asian nationalities under a trial scheme Taiwan has renewed repeatedly. A visa-exempt stay is not extendable in the ordinary way, so plan the trip around it.
It is a free online certificate for citizens of India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and the Philippines who hold a valid or recently expired visa or permanent residence from the United States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, a Schengen country, Australia, New Zealand or Korea. It allows multiple entries with a stay of up to 14 days each and is valid for 90 days from issue — and the qualifying visa itself must be carried, not just the certificate.
Six months from the date of entry for most visitors. Citizens of a small group of countries, including the United States, Canada and Japan, are held only to validity covering the intended stay. You also need a confirmed onward or return ticket within the permitted period.
Meat products from areas affected by African swine fever are prohibited and a first offence carries a fine of up to NT$200,000, enforced with detector dogs in the arrivals hall — an unfinished sandwich from the flight counts. Cash above NT$100,000, or foreign currency above the equivalent of USD 10,000, must be declared.