Interesting, thank you.
The machine even addressed me in the language of my passport once the process was complete!
For my second exit a a few days later I was equipped with children and therefore got to use the human option and received a stamp.

I saw that Taoyuan Airport installed a new style of e-Gates. Has anyone who is a member of this program used the new e-Gates yet?

I entered Taiwan mid-month, my AUS E-gate registration from 2019 still worked. I suppose your GE will also.

I went through TPE last week and they were pushing all US citizens, and others, through the e-gates. I belong to no program and used them time without delay. On a side noted, Taiwan no longer uses an arrival card and went over to an electronic arrival card that you fill out online either at arrival or when arriving into TPE.

How do the new gates work? Just for US citizens and with or without GE and prior registration or payment of a fee?

If this is the case, then I suppose the e-Gate for Global Entry program is no longer needed (and I wasted NT$3000 in renewing).

I believe the new gates work not just for US citizens, as there are many other countries that are eligible. If i recall correctly from my last trip a year ago, as long as your passport country is eligible, no registration is needed and you do not have to be enrolled in GE, which does significantly negate the value of the going through GE / e-Gate registration.

I was there in November and didn�t see any new egate system. Unfortunately I�m arriving into Songshan in a couple weeks so I won�t be able to check TPE unless the same gates are installed at both.

It'll be interesting to see if NIA brings the new e-Gates to other locations like TSA or KHH. Under the e-Gate for Global Entry program, a member can use e-Gates anywhere they are offered, including the ferry port at Kinmen. I have only entered Taiwan at TPE, however, so I haven't been able to verify this. I did leave via TSA once before they were ushering everyone to the e-Gates upon departure, and I was able to use the e-Gates successfully via my e-Gate for Global Entry enrollment.

I do want to clarify now that I thought hard about it, I dont remember being ushered to use e-gate upon arrival ( so that may mean you have to be registered to use it on arrival ) but distinctly remember that upon departure, if your passport country is eligible they ask you to use e-gate.

For me it doesnt really matter anyways. Through all my years of travel there, even during peak times, immigration at TPE never took longer than 15 minutes. They are quite customer centric. And I dont mind stretching for extra 15 minutes when I already / going to spent 12+ hr on the plane lol.

The e-gates at TSA should all be the 3rd/4th generation ones, which are faster, usually don�t require fingerprints, and work for all departing foreign passport holders. At TPE most of the first generation ones are blocked off at departure.

AFAIK only foreigners from a few countries can use e-gates for arrival, and GE holders still need to enroll and pay the fee.

Which countries can use the egate on arrival, and is it any egate or are they specially marked? Is any pre registration required or you just scan your passport?

This appears to have changed recently, at least at TPE:

There appears to be no preregistration required based on the above, but you need to fill out an electronic arrival card. This replaces the paper form (and presumably the speedy electronic arrival card that you had to use when using the e-Gates via Global Entry).

I don't know if e-Gate usage is restricted to certain passport holders or not under the new system. I can ask during my next trip, but I don't anticipate going to Taiwan until closer to the end of the year.

For the longest time I thought you were somehow related to BOCA (Taiwan's Bureau of Consular Affairs), but given the question I guess my assumption was way off

Citizens (who are not resident of Taiwan) of US, AU, DE, SG, KR, and IT can enroll for e-gates (https://egate.immigration.gov.tw/ega...nd/home/select). All use of e-gates for arrival require pre-registration. Given the use of e-gates by these foreign passport holders predates the 3rd/4th generation of e-gates, I assume they can use all e-gates just like TW citizens. Although personally I'd stick to the newer e-gates (the ones with a much bigger screen) as the old ones have really bad facial recognition.

Possibly as I usually use my TW passport when entering Taiwan, so don't really have much information about use with foreign passports. However, the most recent update on the NIA website (https://www.immigration.gov.tw/5475/...366038/cp_news) still says only citizens from the six countries (with US citizens limited to those with GE) can use e-gates for arrival with prior enrollments, and self-enrollment is limited to TW passport or ARC holders. Although I certainly won't be surprised if the government says one thing while doing another...

Yep, and I only found out about the new e-Gates via an online news article. I was unable to find anything from NIA directly. My guess is that it's moving in a similar direction like Australia where previously one had to be a Global Entry member to use the SmartGates, but eventually they opened up use of the SmartGates to most travelers.