大專校院境外學生輔導人員支援體系計畫-資訊交流平台

The main points of the Foreign Professionals Act are as follows:

Note: refer to EZ Work Taiwan website for qualifications, required documents and application forms.

• Terminology:

• Allows short-term tutorial schools (buxibans) to employ foreign teachers who possess specialized knowledge or skills as well as to teach foreign languages and allows freelance arts sector workers to submit a work permit application directly to the Ministry of Labor without being required to apply through an employer.

1.  Short-term tutorial school teacher with specialized knowledge or skills

Foreign professional possessing specialized knowledge or skills, and approved as a short-term tutorial school teacher by the central competent authority of the industry concerned in consultation with the Ministry of Education.

2. Freelance arts sector workers
A foreign professional who works as an artist may, without applying through an employer, apply direct to the Ministry of Labor for a permit to engage in artistic work in the State. 

• A work permit for an employer to hire a foreign special professional to engage in professional work shall have a duration of up to five years, extendable at expiration.

• The adult children of permanent resident foreign professionals, foreign special professionals and foreign senior professionals may apply for personal work permits upon meeting specified conditions as to their length of residence in Taiwan.

• From 2018 February 8, work permit application for school teacher shall be submitted to and issued by the Ministry of Education.