NIA held “Foreign Affairs Workshop 2021”, creating a friendly environment for foreigners in Taiwan

The Ministry of the Interior National Immigration Agency recently organized the "Foreign Affairs Workshop 2021", inviting a total of 42 Taiwanese office officials from 21 countries to attend.

The guests praised Taiwan's achievements of epidemic prevention measures and affirmed that the National Immigration Agency (NIA) has assisted the government in overall epidemic prevention, especially in pedestrian inflow & crowd control.

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NIA also shared about the application process of the “Act for the recruitment and employment of foreign professionals”. (Photo / Provided by the NIA)

In this workshop, NIA also shared about the “Act for the recruitment and employment of foreign professionals”, “Fighting against human trafficking”, “Introduction to the business introduction of the newly established Science and Technology Investigation Center of NIA”, and the “Achievement of being rated as a country with the first level of effectiveness in preventing human trafficking by the U.S. State Department for 12 consecutive years”.

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The NIA creates a friendly environment for foreigners. (Photo / Provided by the NIA)

The NIA stated that to cooperate with the government's overall epidemic prevention policy, the department plans the project "Take COVID-19 rapid tests & Serve quarantine with peace of mind" for migrants to encourage migrants who did not renew their Work Permits to undergo rapid tests and protect their health and rights.

With the increase in the number of tourists and populations from various countries in Taiwan, there are more exchange programs & international cooperation between the Immigration Department & the embassies of Taiwan around the world and NIA.

Therefore, the NIA has organized the "Foreign Affairs Workshop 2021" event since 2015 to create a friendly living environment for foreigners and become an important platform for interaction and exchanges among foreign embassies of Taiwan.