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Hundreds of couples register same-sex marriage, first foreign spouse applies for family visa

Decorations at a household registration office on the first day of legal same-sex marriage in Taiwan
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Hundreds of same-sex couples registered marriages around Taiwan today, as legislation passed May 17 came into effect. According to an SETN report, the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) recorded 363 same-sex marriage registrations nationwide by 2:00pm, including 116 male couples, and 247 female couples. As some Household Registration offices will be open until 8:30pm, the MOI will release the final figures for today’s marriage registrations at 9:00pm. China Times reports that the National Immigration Agency (NIA) received the first same-sex

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Same-Sex Marriage Rights Guaranteed by Constitution: Highest Court Rules

gay people celebrate a ruling that a ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional under the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of China
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Taiwan’s highest court, the Judicial Yuan, today declared that denial of same-sex marriage rights were a violation of rights guaranteed by the constitution of the Republic of China, and ordered the government to amend the civil code within a period of 2 years. According to the ruling, if the civil code remains unamended after the expiration of 2 years, the provisions of the civil code that specify that marriage is between “husband and wife” will become null and void, and

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