It’s Time for Taiwan! Finally, the doors of Taiwan have open to more Filipino travelers. Philippine passport holders can now enter Taiwan without VISA!!!
*This Taiwan VISA FREE for Philippine nationals is only on a trial period that will start this coming June 1, 2017. Again, this is just a temporary policy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFO) of Taiwan will evaluate if this no visa for Filipinos will be made permanent, extended, or be stop come July 31, 2018.
No Visa stay for pinoys will be good for 30 days only. For longer period, travelers and guests needs to file and secure the necessary visa first.
This temporary policy for Philippine nationals comes after the implementation of this country’s ‘New Southbound Policy” which aims to forge closer economic, trade, and tourism ties with countries in South and Southeast Asia.
This screenshot is from the official website of Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFO) – Consular Services.
The second section there indicated that “Second, the pilot to the Philippine national to Taiwan visa-free measures for a period of 1 year.”
To see full screenshot and read the details on the image please open this link about the new policy for Filipino visitors to Taiwan and click the magnifier glass.
Taiwan No VISA for Filipinos is Great news!!!
Now, Filipinos who wants to experience colder temperature has another option aside from Hong Kong, which has been visa-free for us for a long time now. It’s not so easy to go to Seoul since Korea requires a visa, Japan also requires a visa, but now Taiwan does not require a visa for Filipinos!
Philippine passport holders is allowed to enter Taiwan with no visa beginning June 2017.
IT’S TIME FOR TAIWAN
Our 1PISOFARE admins attended the seminar conducted by Taiwan Tourism Board at the SMX Convention Center during the PTAA Travel and Tours Expo 2017.
There is really great interest among our countrymen to visit Taiwan, as evident during the question and answer portion on this seminar. The worry and hesitation of pinoys has always been how to get visa approval, the visa fee, requirements when one applies for visa, etc. But with this great news from the Foreign Ministry, we can now easily visit Taiwan, at least from June 1, 2017 to July 31, 2018 (trial period of one year).
In fact, some of our piso fare team members are so psych-up that a few already booked round trip promo flights to Taipei today. Confirmed booking shown below.
Confirmed promo tickets are for 2 pax, the bookings does not have any add-ons yet but most likely our teammates will be adding prepaid baggage allowance and travel insurance.
If you want to go too, start looking for those Taiwan promo fares for 2017 to 2018. Watch out for next sharing on our website 1pisofare.com/, we will share new Taiwan promo ticket offers as soon as they are launched by the airlines. Like and Follow us on Facebook if you haven't done so yet.
UPDATE May 11, 2017
From the Taiwan News website: “Taiwan’s offer of visa-free access for Philippine citizens may have to be postponed by one to two months due to “technical problems,” Chairman of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) Angelito Banayo said in a report Friday.”
Update: May 22, 2017: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan has said that the free visa implementation will be moved further to September (no exact date yet).
Grab those Taiwan promo fares from Cebu Pacific, Air Asia, and Philippine Airlines. Fly from Manila to Taipei or Cebu to Taipei. Be ready when PH passport holders are accepted for entry visa-free.
News source: Taiwan News, Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, GMA News
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