[Investment] Procedure Further Simplified for Foreign Employees

The Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) recently issued an interpretation announcing that intra-company transferees sent to Taiwan by multinational enterprises no longer need to have their work experience certification verified by an overseas representative office of Taiwan. In the past when an employer wanted to hire people from certain countries-Nigeria, Afghanistan, Algeria, Cuba, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Syria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Indonesia the foreign documentation that had to be submitted was required to be verified by an overseas Taiwan representative office. The CLA has now made it easier for foreign employees of multinational companies by relaxing the verification conditions. Now, any foreign professional of whatever nationality who is employed by a multinational enterprise in specialized or technical work and who is transferred to a branch or subsidiary in Taiwan no longer needs to have his or her work experience certification verified by an overseas representative office of the Taiwan government.