The Ministry of Education, in consultation with the Bureau of Entry and Exit in the National Police Administration of the Ministry of the Interior, has announced that overseas students on government scholarship can have the "person" number on their passports changed to a "place" number at overseas agencies under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs without paying a passport fee.
教育部已洽請內政部警政署入出境管理局同意，由外交部所屬之駐外單位將教育部公費留學生所持護照回台加簽之「人」字修正為「地」字，號碼不變，免收證照費。