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The Taiwan Receipt Lottery: How to Play & Redeem Your Winnings

January 28, 2024
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Living in Taiwan, Guides & How-tos, Life

In Taiwan, it’s well worth keeping track of your receipts. The Taiwan Receipt Lottery, formally known as the “Uniform Invoice Lottery” (In Chinese 統一發票 Tǒngyī Fāpiào), gives all residents the chance to win up to 10 million NTD (over 350,000 USD)! Say whaaaaaaat?! YES, and it doesn’t matter who you are – even tourists can redeem winnings (assuming you stick around long enough)! Entry is as simple as buying a bottle of water at 7-11 – the numerical code on...

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Everything You Need to Know About Garbage Disposal (and Recycling!) in Taiwan

September 3, 2023
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Life, Guides & How-tos, Living in Taiwan

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that there is a lot of learning involved in moving to a new country. Often the things you have to learn are literally the most basic every-day things that you have been doing forever, but now you suddenly have to be conscious of doing them, and in a whole new way. There are new systems one must adapt to! It’s even harder if you don’t speak the local language (working on it, 可是我的中文不好). In Taiwan,...

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Everything You Need to Know About Applying for a Spousal Visa in Taiwan (With A Foreign Spouse)

June 26, 2021
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Guides & How-tos, Living in Taiwan

I thought it might be helpful to write a post about getting a spousal visa in Taiwan, as last year I was pulling my hair out over it and would have benefitted from a comprehensive blog post somewhere! My first piece of advice: unless you have all your documents together and your ducks in a row, start early. Like, 3-4 months before you need the visa kind of early, because you may have to mail things back and forth and...

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