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Foreign Employee Qualificaion

1. Foreign employees shall acquire one of the following qualifications:

   1. Acquire certificates or operation qualifications through the procedures specified in the Examinations of Specific Profession and Technician Guidelines.

   2. Acquire credentials of Master degree or above from universities in the ROC or in foreign countries or acquire Bachelor degree and with more than two years working experiences in the specific field. (Ministry of Labor has set up cousultation mechanism that foreigners with at least a bachelor degree to perform special and technical jobs have no two years work experience re strictions by the agreement of specific program. Refer to explanation of consultation mechanism, work flow and Ref.Lao-Dong-Fa-Guan-Zi-1120501255A dated March 8, 2023.)

   3. Expatriates to the ROC that have been employed in multi-national companies for more than one year.

   4. Specialists who have been trained professionally or self-taught in the specific field and have more than five years experiences in related skills and have demonstrated outstanding performances.(Note: The ministry has established a consultation procedure for expatriates as professional and skilled workers to be exempted from the five-year work experience requirement. But those acknowledged as startup with innovation capabilities are not subject to the limit on years of work experience.)

Besides, the monthly amount of average salary for employed foreigners referred to in the preceding paragraph, if no additional regulations, shall be no less than NT $47,971. (Refer to Ref. Lao-Dong-Fa-Guan-Zi-10605154981 dated August 14, 2017.)

2. Foreigners to be employed for tour guides, tour leaders, or travel agency managers in the tourism industry (Article 11), air-transportation or test-fly (Article 12), pilot or pilot training (Article 13), commercial aircraft flying (Article 14), general aircraft flying (Article 17), aircraft engine, fuselage or electronic communication visa related field (Article 20), in addition to the condition mentioned above, should respectively obtain related qualified documents listed in “Documents.”

※Foreigners related laws and regulations refer to the Article 5, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 10 in the “Qualifications and Criteria Standards for foreigners undertaking the jobs specified under Article 46.1.1 to 46.1.6 of the Employment Service Act.”

Employer Qualification

1. The employers shall acquire the business license issued by the authority concerned at the central government level.

2. The employers hiring foreigners to be employed for air-transportation or test-fly, pilot training or commercial aircraft flying should additionally obtain civil aviation transportation permit issued by the industry authority at the central government level; hiring foreigners to be employed for domestic commercial (aircraft) flying should obtain the permit from the ROC general aviation issued by the authority concerned at the central government level.

3. The employers who hire foreigners to be employed for commercial aircraft flying or domestic commercial flying shall also qualify for one of the following in addition to the qualifications above:

   1. Comercial aircraft flying: The employer should train domestic pilots. (The total number of foreign pilots hired by the employer may not exceed two point five (2.5) times of the sum of the total number of domestic pilots trained by the employer within seven (7) years prior to the application date, and the planned number of domestic pilots who are being or to be trained by the employer in the year of the application.)

   2. Domestic aircraft flying can only be assigned for aircraft models that have yet been initiated in this country.
      However, for those existing aircraft models which have yet to be operated by local pilot trainers are exempted from abovementioned restriction. On-job training (re-training) for international pilots who have already operated the said aircraft model(s) should also be exempted from the abovementioned restriction.

※Employers related laws and regulations refers to the Article 15, 16, 18 in the “Qualifications and Criteria Standards for foreigners undertaking the jobs specified under Article 46.1.1 to 46.1.6 of the Employment Service Act.