Pao, president of the trading company Cosmo International who was the first bearer of an ROC passport to travel to Eastern Europe in search of trade 15 years ago, remembers when he had to employ the services of lawyers to get visas to a few particularly difficult countries such as India and Pakistan. In the last five years he has found it much easier.
跑遍大半個地球，十五年前第一個拿中華民國護照到東歐做生意的全聯國際貿易總經理鮑永建指出，以前拿我國護照簽證較困難，像印度、巴基斯坦不承認我們的護照，還要先到律師樓去辦證明，近五年就很容易。