Notes from Central Taiwan: Kafka and do nots: A visa tale

I’d like to marry my girlfriend, a Filipino migrant worker, and have her move in with me as my wife. In most countries this would be a matter of paperwork. In Taiwan it’s not possible.
A few weeks ago I set off for the immigration office in Taichung’s Fongyuan District (豐原) to ask how to switch my girlfriend’s foreign laborer visa to a relative visa after we got married.
We can easily marry in Taiwan — in that respect Taiwan is the sanest place I have ever been. We just have to show up at the local household registration office

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