The Gold Card Office will be closed on 4/3 - 4/4 in observance of Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Choose your validity period for the Taiwan Employment Gold Card. The price of the application varies for longer validity periods. Extensions are not possible.
Please choose the preferred location for collecting your Gold Card.
You will pick up the Gold Card in Taiwan. You will enter the country on a temporary certificate that you print yourself and collect the card after you arrive. For detailed instructions to pick up your Gold Card, please refer to Card Collection.
If you currently don’t have a work address, you can temporarily leave it out during the application and review stage. You may leave your Taiwan relative/friend’s resident address if you have no residence address. However, you must provide a residential address within 30 days of moving in Taiwan.
Please fill in the UI No. (ARC no.) if you have had an ARC in Taiwan. If you forgot your UI No., please contact NIA’s service center .
Domestic applications require a residential address when applying. When entering the Taiwanese address in Chinese, only Chinese symbols and Arabic numerals can be used, no English letters allowed. Please refer to the FAQ .
Please refer to the “Professional Fields” page , select the field you wish to apply under, and check if you meet the eligibility criteria. Required application documents vary based on the specific “Professional Fields” page and “Regulation.”
Feel free to use our Gold Card Qualification Check to check your qualification.
Please note: Foreign professionals must still meet specific conditions after obtaining their Gold Card to enjoy tax benefits. Please refer to the relevant regulations for qualification details: Articles 3 of the Regulations Governing Reduction and Exemption of Income Tax of Foreign Specialist Professionals and Article 20 of the Act for the Recruitment and Employment of Foreign Professional Talent .
The timeline for issuing the Employment Gold Card is as follows:
It depends on the specific circumstances. In certain fields, a monthly salary of NTD 160,000 can be an application route, but this is limited to specific fields and subfields. You can visit the Qualifications page to view more detailed eligibility criteria, or use the Qulification Check to see which fields you may qualify for.
Use your personal check list to make it easier for you to remember if you have completed all steps of the application process.