OUT OF CONTACT: On average, about 200 pregnant workers or those already caring for a child disappear from their jobs each year, the National Immigration Agency said

Taipezi Times
Date: Jul 27, 2019
By: Wang Kuan-jen and Jake Chung  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

There are 734 unregistered children in Taiwan born to migrant workers who have been unaccounted for after arriving in the nation, the National Immigration Agency (NIA) said on Wednesday.

The Control Yuan on Monday said the children of immigrants in Taiwan are considered non-citizens and ineligible for the benefits of Taiwanese citizens as they were not registered at birth.

The Control Yuan also said that the agency did not know how many such children were in Taiwan.

From 2007 until the end of May, 9,302 infants were born in Taiwan to a foreign parent or parents, of which 734 did not have citizenship, as the mother was a migrant worker who could not be contacted or who entered the nation under an alias, the agency said.