Taiwanese immigration officials have confirmed that Alice Huang, the woman at the center of an espionage scandal involving Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, accessed the island using a Hong Kong passport. Authorities are now scrutinizing her entry records as part of a broader national security investigation. Because holders of Hong Kong passports typically face fewer bureaucratic hurdles when visiting Taiwan compared to those from mainland China, officials are now re-evaluating their border screening protocols to prevent similar security lapses in the future.

The controversy erupted following reports of an affair between the Nvidia chief and Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed who is suspected by US officials of having ties to Chinese intelligence. While Beijing has denied these allegations, Taiwan’s government has since revoked Alice Huang’s travel permits, effectively banning her from re-entering the country. As the Nvidia board conducts its own internal probe into the CEO, Taiwanese officials have emphasized that they would have blocked her entry had her alleged espionage background been known at the time of her visit to Taipei during the Computex expo.