False IDs were used to break into Kinmen’s small three links, and 8 cases of Chinese people trying to enter the country were seized in 3 years

A man, Lu Li-cheng, was sentenced to eight years in prison for causing injury resulting in death. He tried to use a photo synthesized by AI technology to impersonate another person's passport and escape through the Kinmen Crossing, but was still caught by Immigration Department officers. (Provided by Immigration Department)

The Kinmen Little Three Links are very popular, and the Kinmen County Government predicts that the passenger volume may hit a new high of 2 million passengers this year. According to official statistics, from 2024 to 2026, a total of eight cases of fraudulent use of documents were detected, all of which were for entry. Seven of the cases involved Chinese nationals and one was a Hong Kong national. Lu Nan was caught using someone else's passport with a composite photo to break out of the country. He was the first Taiwanese caught in recent years.

Taiwanese arrested for the first time in recent years

The cross-strait mini-three links were suspended on February 10, 2020 due to the epidemic, and resumed on January 7, 2023. From September 27, 2024, "individual travel endorsement" or "group travel endorsement" for residents and residence permit holders in Fujian Province, China, to Kinmen will be resumed.

According to statistics from the Kinmen County Government, the annual passenger volume of Little Three Links in the past three years has increased from more than 1.3 million passengers in 2024 to more than 1.84 million in 2025. As of October this year, the number has exceeded 1.87 million. The passenger volume has continued to grow over the past three years, which also highlights the increasingly heavy workload of identity verification for Little Three Link personnel.

Border management and inspection personnel stated that in the past three years, the eight cases of fraudulent use of documents that have been detected were all incoming passengers, seven of whom were Chinese nationals and one was a Hong Kong national. Eight of them were discovered by the document inspection personnel. Lu Nan was first found to have inconsistent facial features by the automatic inspection and customs clearance system. Then, through the immigration officer's rich experience in "recognizing people" and supplemented by verbal questioning, Lu Nan was allowed to bow his head and plead guilty.

The Immigration Department stated that as criminal methods are renovated, the equipment of Immigration Department personnel will also keep pace with the times, and the public should not challenge public power.