Once you receive the email stating the certification is completed then login to the Application Portal and download the R.O.C. (Taiwan) Resident Authorization (Employment Gold Card) for Overseas Applicants document. You will find your ARC number on there.
I mailed my actual passport. Not a notarized copy.
Yes, it is possible to have someone else physically pick up your GC for you. A friend of mine went to NIA to pick mine up while I was in quarantine and delivered it to the quarantine hotel that I was staying at.
Anyway to change your GC pickup location after your GC has been approved but not issued yet? I logged into the GC site and it does not let me edit anything, just can âviewâ my application.
Youâll have to call NIA. However, last time I checked, the GC has to be picked up at one of the NIA Service Centers in Taiwan. They wonât ship it abroad.
Also, on the application portal and under Application, select Apply to change passport inspection or card collection location.
Is this still true? For some reason I thought I had read that they had changed them all to pick up in Taiwan. But maybe I totally dreamed that up!
Perfect thank you! This is great news.
My husband mailed a notarized copy of the passport. He didnât feel comfortable mailing in his US passport. We will see how it goes. He just got an email notification from TECO-LA today confirming that they have received his submission by mail.
It depends if you applied before July 28th 2021, selected overseas pickup and have not been asked for supplementary documentation
Beginning from noon July 28, the pick up location for the Employment Gold Card will be set in Taiwan, and there will no longer be an option for picking up the card at an overseas mission. Overseas and domestic applicants can download the Resident Authorization Certificate on the Application Portal to enter Taiwan. The Gold Card must be collected within 30 days of entering Taiwan at one of the National Immigration Agencyâs Service Centers.
For applicants who have applied before July 28, your Gold Card pick up location will remain the same (the location that you have already chosen). However, if you are asked to provide supplementary documents, even if your initial application date was before July 28, your pick up location for the Gold Card will be changed to Taiwan.
Thanks Irish!! I was conditionally approved in April of 2021 so it sounds like I should be able to stick to my overseas pickup option. I guess the question then becomes whether I should keep that option since it might take too longâŚIâll probably only be there for about 4 weeks after I do the passport submission lol. Oh the hilariously long saga of all of us gold card folks.
Some quarantine hotels have a lower rate for âTaiwanese onlyâ.
âăTaiwanese onlyă This program is applicable to: All Taiwanese travelers who enter from foreign countries. Those who stay in must have permanent residence permit APRC or ID card.â
Gold Card is not APRC. Is Gold Card an ID card that will qualify the cardholder for the lower rate?
https://asiayo.com/en-us/view/tw/taichung-city/39215/
No. ID card means local, not for foreigners
While I donât agree with the statement about vehicle taxes, this article by a Gold Card holder raises some valid points.
You need to send the real passport, but if in doubt, call your local TECO, they may accept a notarized copy. But if you live close by to your TECO, you can just make an appointment and go in person, it will be much faster.
I did mine in person in London a couple weeks ago⌠the whole process took less than 5 minutes. They scanned my passport, asked a few basic questions (âwhy are you moving to Taiwan?â, âwhatâs your profession?â). Got the final approval and resident authorisation document three days later. Flying to Taipei in three weeks! 
Except quite a bit of it is misinformation
That was exactly the case. I had forgotten about that peculiarity.
I had a booking for a flight.
Hey folks, I am quite in the dark and canât get a straight answer: I will move to Taiwan in 3 weeks, I will technically be a self-employed, with income paid by a foreign entity. As far as I understand, I can enroll directly to NHI thanks to the gold card without the wait period of 6 months. So how to:
- Enroll to NHI;
- Set the insured unit as a self-employed person without the need to set-up a company.
Then, another point where I am completely lost is pension: can I/Do I need to contribute to the pension? I am not a permanent resident and not married yet to a citizen. If I can/need to, how can I set up the pension account and pay the contributions as a self-employed? (the question would be useful also for later when I will marry my fianceâe who is a citizen).
Please help me out here, all the answers from Gold Card Office, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labour are quite obscure and not to the real point.
self employed is not the same as employed by your own limited company. What are you - self employed paying taxes in your home country? That will only work if you spend more time in your home country than taiwan. I guess in that case you need to change self employment to Taiwan.
Employed by your own limited? Then itâs 6 months wait AFAIK.
Has anonyone applied in âscience & technologyâ requirement 2 " Those with unique talents or outstanding R&D ability or innovation performancesâŚ"?
Since I currently do not fulfill the $160.000 NTD salary requirement Iâm wondering if I could get into requirement 2:
- bachelor of science (2016)
- been working in software development (mostly web or android apps) since 2011 (experience > 10 years)
- most of the time as a freelancer (thus only have 1 letter of recommendation from a german company I did some freelance work for)
- have a letter of recommendation from Taipei NTNU for helping them find some critical vulnerabilities in their student software
- currently own 50% of a software company with high potential (currently ~ $2.500.000 NTD revenue a year with a subscription model, 100% increase planned this year)
- published article in a print magazine (20.000 printed) about the software company
- published article on my universityâs website about my life after receiving the bachelor
Do you guys see any chance this could work out or is is wasted money and time to apply?