Handle Student Residence Basics
Distinguish a first application, extension, and address update before a legal deadline is missed.
Rules change. Open the official sources below and confirm before you act.
For help in another language, call the advisory hotline for foreign residents1990
Current guidance generally gives 30 days after entry, allows extensions in the three months before expiry, and lists NT$1,000 per item per year, with extra fees in some cases. Recheck before applying.
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Before you start
Identify your residence situation and use the NIA’s official student system to apply, extend, or update your record.
- Applies to
- International students applying for, extending, or updating residence
- Rule level
- National rules; varies by status and visa
- Group
- Status & Residence
- When
- Before you arrive
What to prepare
Steps
Enter the Students Online Application System only through the NIA website.
Choose first application, extension, address update, or personal-information update and read your list.
Prepare clear color files and never enter data through an unofficial agent link.
Monitor correction and approval notices. Current guidance requires payment within five working days after approval.
Save the official result. This game records only completion and never collects ID numbers or files.
Every step has its own link, so a single step can be shared.
Common mistakes, and what done looks like
- Problem
- Remembering ARC expiry but not updating an address after moving.
- How to fix it
- Check immediately; current guidance generally gives 30 days beginning the day after the change.
- Problem
- Logging in through an advertisement or unofficial agent page.
- How to fix it
- Stop entering data and reopen the system from the NIA website.
What done looks like
The system shows submitted, correction required, or approved, and you know the next deadline. Submission is not approval.
Practice scenario
- Scene
- A student preparing an online residence application
- You will talk to
- Mr. LinSchool residence-support adviser
2 questions
Sources and page information
This page is compiled from the public sources below. Individual steps are not footnoted to a source yet.
- 1
Official government內政部移民署
外國及僑港澳學生線上申辦系統送件須知(opens in a new window)https://www.immigration.gov.tw/5475/5478/141465/141469/367180/cp_newswww.immigration.gov.tw · Source page update date not recorded · We reviewed it on 2026-07-20 - 2
Official government移民署
Students Online Application System(opens in a new window)https://coa.immigration.gov.tw/coa-frontend/student/entrycoa.immigration.gov.tw · Source page update date not recorded · We reviewed it on 2026-07-20
The tier is derived from the domain: a gov label is official government, an edu label is a university, anything else is other.
Page information
- Last verified
- Next review
- Review cycle
- 90 days (high 90 / medium 180 / low 365)
- Reviewer
- Not recorded
- Created and last edited
- Not recorded
- Other reviewed editions
- 中文No reviewed edition yet: Bahasa Indonesia · Tiếng Việt
The next review date is calculated from the last verified date plus the review cycle. It is not a second review.
Related tasks
Other tasks in the same group (Status & Residence).
- Complete School RegistrationRiskMedium
- Replace a Lost ARCRiskHigh
Get help from a person
- Advisory hotline for foreign residents in Taiwan
- 1990
- From abroad
- +886-800-001990
See the National Immigration Agency website for service hours and languages(opens in a new window)
University international office Contact the international office at your own university