Other important stipulations of the revisions include the following: * In order to protect the rights and privileges of genuine overseas Chinese, the minimum time that a person of Chinese ancestry must have continuously resided overseas to be classified as an overseas Chinese will be raised from five years to eight.
關於僑生回國就學及輔導辦法，部分條文修正草案的其他重要內容有：﹘﹘為保障世居海外僑胞子弟的權益，將連續居留海外的年限，由「五年以上」修訂為「八年以上」。