🔍NDC Press Release on Act for the Recruitment and Employment of Foreign Professionals
📃Act for the Recruitment and Employment of Foreign Professionals is approved by the Legislative Yuan of ROC, marking a milestone in Taiwan’s talent recruitment system.
📃The key measures proposed by the Act are listed as follows:
1⃣ Relaxation of regulations on work, visa, and residence
✅ Foreign special professionals are able to apply for “Employment Gold Card”, which is more convenient for foreigners to transfer work or seek jobs; the term of such work permits have been expanded from 3 years to five years.
✅ Foreign freelance artists are allowed to obtain work permits without applying for them through employers.
✅ Cram schools in Taiwan are allowed to hire foreign teachers with expertise or professional skills for teaching.
✅ Foreign professionals looking for jobs in Taiwan are eligible to apply for employment-seeking visa.
✅ The required minimum duration of stay of 183 days per year for maintaining permanent residency is abolished.
2⃣ Easing of provisions concerning stay or residence of parents, spouses, and children
✅ The requirements for spouses, minor children, or disabled adult children of permanent resident foreign professionals applying for permanent residence are eased.
✅ When senior foreign professionals apply for permanent residence in Taiwan, their spouses, minor children, or disabled adult children are eligible to apply simultaneously.
✅ Requirements are eased for foreign professionals’ adult children who meet the specified conditions to apply for work permits without going through an employer.
✅ The visitor visas for the lineal ascendants of foreign professionals are extended to allow for a stay of up to one year at a time.
3⃣ Providing benefits on retirement, insurance, and tax
✅ Foreign professionals who have been approved for permanent residence shall be included in the retirement pension system under the Labor Pension Act. A foreign professional who is currently employed as a full-time, qualified, paid teacher in a public school in Taiwan may opt for either a one-time lump sum pension payment or a monthly pension.
✅ The requirement of a full six months of residence in Taiwan for spouses, minor children, or disabled adult children of foreign professionals to participate in National Health Insurance as insured persons is abolished.
✅ Foreign special professionals who work in Taiwan and have salary income of more than NT$ 3 million a year can deduct half of their salary for taxation for the first 3 years.
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