Originally Posted by Fly Me To The Moon

A few days ago, I was exiting TPE from Terminal 1. Going through Immigration, I was struggling to find a page in my passport which had a big enough space for the official to chop the exit stamp. On the few pages that I indicated, the space was not big enough, and the official refused to chop the passport. I travel to Taiwan several times a month, have done so for several years on the same passport, and showed the official where previous officials had lazily chopped the exit stamp in the centre of each page so that only six stamps were able to fit on the page. I was getting quite frustrated at this person.

He then told me that, if I did not want or did not need an exit stamp in my passport, then I could just use it to go through the e-gate. I was quite surprised at this suggestion since I did not even know I was eligible.

I went over to the e-gate section and found it rows and rows deep with a long line up. It would have taken me at least 20 minutes to go through. I ended up going back to the Speedy Immigration line, which had no wait, and finally found a page in my passport which JUST had enough space to chop the exit stamp.

But, the official's suggestion still intrigues me. Am I entitled to use e-gate? I use a Canadian passport to travel to Taiwan and use Speedy Immigration. That's it. No other credentials.

Any advice?