resident visa. However, with the exception of investor immigrants, the Act does not permit the application for a permanent alien resident visa filed by foreign professionals’ minor children. Clearly, this regulation is flawed in the protection of the right to family reunion. Upon investigation and subsequent follow-up by the Control Yuan, the Executive Yuan drafted the Act for the Recruitment and Employment of Foreign Professionals, which was passed by the Legislative Yuan on October 31, 2017 and came into force on February 8, 2018. In contrast, Article 23 of the Immigration Act provides that the migrant workers referred to in subparagraphs 8–10, Paragraph 1 of Article 46 of the Employment Service Act (blue-collar workers) are not allowed to apply for resident visas for their spouses and minor children. 138. In order to ensure homeland security, the Immigration Act provides the requirements for prohibition of foreign workers from entering the country, and authorizes the Operational Directions for the Entry Ban on Foreign Nationals to set forth a time limit on the entry ban. Said Directions do set forth requirements on applications for shortening the entry ban or lifting the entry ban by taking into consideration the right to family reunion. According to the Directions, those holding an illegally obtained, counterfeit, or altered passport or visa, should be subject to an entry ban for 10 years, irrelevant of whether the counterfeit or illegally obtained passport or visa was a result of intention or negligence. Even if the requirements regarding a shortened entry ban are satisfied, in some cases the concerned parties must still suffer a 5-year entry ban. Accordingly, their fundamental rights to family reunion, co-habitation and joint raising of children are denied. In order to maintain homeland security, the Immigration Agency takes charge of management of borders where entry to and exit from the country occur, but it is also obligated to protect immigrants’ human rights. It is supposed to review the changes in international conditions, review related laws and regulations thoroughly, make rolling or contingency plans for adjustments to changing conditions, and consider entry bans for a reasonable time frame on a case-by-case basis. This is necessary to meet Taiwan’s basic national policy of upholding itself as a state established on the basis of human rights. Upon investigation and subsequent follow-up by the Control Yuan, the Ministry of Interior has amended the Operational Directions for the Entry Ban on Foreign Nationals as of May 28, 2020, in order to relax the related control and time limit requirements. Article 24 Child Protection Child Protection 139. The “physical and mental abuse” referred to in subparagraph 2, Paragraph 1 of Article 49 of the Protection of Children and Youth Welfare and Rights Act and “other misconduct” referred to in subparagraph 15, Paragraph 1 of Article 59