Shaw Yu-ming, director-general of the Government Information Office and spokesman for the Mainland Affairs Council, points out that rumors that ROC passports will only be given to those students or scholarswho have long-term or permanent right of residence in a foreign countryare inaccurate.
行政院大陸工作會報發言人、新聞局長邵玉銘指出，外傳我國在核發護照給因參加反共活動而放棄中共護照，或無法返回大陸的大陸留學生或學人時，須具備外國當地的長期或永久居留權的說法，並不正確。