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Immigration

to enhance the investigation of undocumented migrant workers. With the ease of the COVID-19
pandemic, international flights gradually resumed after January 2022. The NIA has strengthened en-
forcement operations, and successively cracked down on many cases of instigating migrant workers
to leave their employers or work illegally. Besides, the NIA also cracked down on several cases of un-

documented migrant workers involved in violations of criminal laws.

To protect legal marriage and combat marriage fraud, the NIA conducts site visits and interviews,
if necessary, when adjudicating an application based on the marriage category. In order to strength-
en interviews and site visits, as well as improve interviewers' professional skills, the NIA regularly

conducts workshops and seminars on interview laws and experience sharing. In 2022, a total of 2,450
interviews of mainland Chinese spouses were conducted, including 202 failed domestic interviews, 22
cases rejected at the border, and three cases that failed their second interviews.

2. Policy objectives for 2023
To reduce the number of overstayers in

Taiwan, the NIA will launch the “Expanded
Overstayers Voluntary Departure Program” that
adopted a carrot and stick approach to motivate
overstayers to depart voluntarily. Besides, the

NIA will also continue to cooperate with national
security related agencies to crack down on over-
staying foreigners to decrease the number of
overstayers in Taiwan. The NIA will continue to

simplify the process of site visits and interviews,
as well as conduct a rolling review of outcomes of
the measures, in order to protect the security of
our country while providing better services to the

public. Poster of the "Expanded Overstayers Voluntary
Departure Program"

VIII. Protecting the Human Rights of Immigrants

1. Protecting the rights of detainees
To protect the human rights of detainees, the NIA provides detainees with information in multiple

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