Taipei Times
Date: Aug 02, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA

Over the past few years, Taiwan has seen slower growth in the number of “new immigrants,” a category that predominantly refers to the foreign and Chinese spouses of Taiwanese.

The slowdown is largely attributable to a sharp decline in the number of Chinese spouses of Taiwanese, although there has been a slight increase in the number of spouses from other nations, Hong Kong and Macau over the past few years, a report compiled by the Legislative Yuan’s Budget Center showed.

As of the end of March, the number of new immigrants in Taiwan totaled 533,159, including 338,940 Chinese spouses and 101,333 Vietnamese spouses, the report said, citing National Immigration Agency (NIA) statistics.

Over the past few years, the number of foreigners married to Taiwanese — a category that does not include spouses from China — has increased slightly from 3,277 in 2010 to 6,001 last year, with the number of spouses from Hong Kong and Macau rising from 308 in 2010 to 919, the report said.    [FULL  STORY]