How to log in

1. Go to: https://coa.immigration.gov.tw/coa-frontend/foreign-student/individual/login
2. Create your own account name and password.
3. Verify your email address
4. Login the system, fill out the application and upload all the required documents.

You may need to read the instructions first before submitting the application.

Procedures

1. Scan the required documents in JPG/JPEG/PNG/BMP/PDF files (the size of each file cannot exceed 512KB)
2. After the application has been approved by the National Immigration Agency (receiving an email notification with the subject "送件線上繳費通知"), you can pay the fee online and print out the receipt by yourself.
3. Once you receive an email from niasys@immigration.gov.tw with the subject "審核通過已繳費製證完成通知", you are able to pick up your ARC at the National Immigration Agency with the online receipt and your current ARC card after 3 work days.

Required Documents

1. A completed application form signed by yourself. Make sure the order of your full name match exactly the order in your passport.
2. One photo:
   1. Size of the file: 4 KB-512 KB
   2. Color: in color only. No filters.
   3. Head size and position: centered and facing camera; your face should be 70% to 80% of the image.
   4. Taken within the last 6 months.
   5. Background: white only. No colors, patterns or objects.
   6. Dimensions and size (pixels): at least 531(V)*413(H)
   7. Dpi:＜300
3. Photocopy of your passport (bio page). If your passport has been re-issued or updated, please upload the old one as well.
4. Chinese Enrollment Certificate or Certificate of Study issued within one month (can be purchased from the automatic payment machine on the 2nd floor, First Medical Building), or the original student ID card and a certified copy of it. Make sure you bring the copy to Ms. Lin of Graduate Studies Section of the Office of Academic Affairs for the official stamp (please refer to sample).
5. Housing Certificate (not required if your address is the same).

Fee

NT$1,015 (one-year term and service fee)