L-113-V01

Operational Manual for Reviewing Work Permit
Application of Foreign, Overseas Chinese andEthnic Chinese Students Studying in Taiwan

Published in August 2024

Contents

1.

Items of Student Work Permit .............................................................. 2

2.

Qualifications of Application ............................................................... 2

3.

Documents for Application .................................................................. 5

4.

Other Regulations ................................................................................. 6

Manual Instructions:This operational manual was published to make information public and improve thetransparency of reviewing operation. It is compiled in accordance with relevant Lawsand Regulations, but the reviewing criteria are still subject to the recent Laws andRegulations. In order to flexibly response various categories of application, it will becontinuously added and revised then announced for any incomplete issue.

1Category L (Part-time job for overseas Chinese, ethnic Chinese and foreign
students studying in Taiwan) – submitted by overseas Chinese, ethnic
Chinese and foreign students
1.

Items of student work permit (please check by actual circumstance):(1) Status of overseas Chinese student (code 01): overseas Chinese student enrolled in accordance withRegulations on Study and Counseling Assistance in Taiwan for Overseas Chinese Students.
(2) Status of ethnic Chinese student (from Hong Kong or Macau or overseas youth vocational training
school (code 02): 1. Ethnic Chinese student from Hong Kong or Macau enrolled in accordance withRegulations on Study in Taiwan for Residents from Hong Kong or Macau. 2. Students enrolled in
vocational training courses organized by the competent authority in charge of foreign affairs oroverseas affairs.
(3) Status of foreign student (code 03): foreign student enrolled in the public or registered private collegesor universities (universities and two-year colleges) in accordance with Regulations on Study in Taiwan
for International Students.

2.

Qualifications
SerialNo.

Item

Relevant Regulations

Examination Principles

1Overseas
Chinese student

The overseas Chinese students
include degree seeking students andthose who are enrolled at Division ofPreparatory Programs for Overseas
Chinese Students in National Taiwan
Normal University.

2

Ethnic Chinese
student (fromHong Kong orMacau oroverseas youth
vocationaltraining school)

1. Overseas Chinese students enrolledin the public or registered privatesenior high schools or above
according to Subparagraph 2, Article
50 of Employment Service Act.
2. According to Paragraph 1, Article 52of Regulations on the Permissionand Administration of the
Employment of Foreign Workers,
overseas Chinese students shallmeet the student status regulated in
the Regulations on Study andCounseling Assistance in Taiwan for
Overseas Chinese Students.
1. Ethnic Chinese students enrolled in
the public or filed private seniorhigh schools or above according toSubparagraph 2, Article 50 ofEmployment Service Act.
2. According to Paragraph 2,Article 52 of Regulations on thePermission and Administration of
the Employment of Foreign
Workers, overseas Chinese students
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The overseas Chinese students
include degree seeking students andthose who are enrolled at Division ofPreparatory Programs for Overseas
Chinese Students in National Taiwan
Normal University and vocational
training courses organized by thecompetent authority in charge offoreign affairs or overseas affairs.

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Item

Foreign student

Relevant Regulations
shall meet one of the following
requirements: (1) students regulatedby the Regulations on Study in
Taiwan for Residents from Hong
Kong or Macau. (2) Students
enrolled in vocational training
courses organized by the competentauthority in charge of foreign affairs
or overseas affairs.
1. Foreign students enrolled in thepublic or registered private collegesor universities according to
Subparagraph 1, Article 50 of
Employment Service Act.
2. According to Article 50 ofRegulations on the Permission andAdministration of the Employmentof Foreign Workers, foreign students
shall meet the foreign student status
regulated in the Regulations on
Study in Taiwan for InternationalStudents.
3. According to Article 51 ofRegulations on the Permission andAdministration of the Employmentof Foreign Workers, should aforeign student been officiallyenrolled in a school to take courses
in a division, department or graduate
thereof or to take language course(s)for six months or more , they mustobserve the following regulations:(1) Must be officially enrolled on acourse at a junior college,
university or graduate school,or have attended a language
program for six months orlonger.
(2) The attended school is required
to confirm the following:I.
A student does not have thefinancial resources tocontinue his/her studies orcover living expenses andprovide concrete evidence
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Examination Principles

1. Foreign students include degree
seeking students, those who study
Chinese at language center ofcollege or university in Taiwan
and exchange students (Limited to
the learners who have studied in
Taiwan for one year).
2. The college or university refers touniversities and two-year colleges.
Those foreign students at grade 4
or above in the five-year colleges
shall submit employment
application as students in thetwo-year colleges.
3. Those students who come to
Taiwan for Chinese study atlanguage center in universities orcolleges shall take language
courses more than six months tosubmit application.
4. Foreign students should apply for awork permit after getting thepermission and recognition of thecurrent school that he/she meets
one fact of the 51st Article ofRegulations on the Permission andAdministration of the Employmentof Foreign Workers.

of the aforementioned.
A teaching or research
department at the attended
school requires foreign
student to undertake work.
4. The aforementioned regulations do
not apply to foreign students with thefollowing qualifications:(1) Students who specialize inlanguages and to whom one of
the following conditions
pertains, who receive approval
from the Ministry of Education:
I.
Students who after enrolling
work part time as foreign
language teachers at acollege affiliated language
center or at a foreigncultural and educationalfoundation affiliatedlanguage center in Taiwan.
II. Students who after enrolling
assist with school-based
language expertise relatedteaching activities.
(2) Students who attend graduate
school and with the agreementof the school engage in studyrelated research work.
II.

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3.

Documents for application
SerialNo.
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Documents

Review Principles

Notices

Original receipt ofreviewing fee

1. The receipt may be
exempted. However, it shallbe subject to the case andoverseas Chinese and foreign
students may be asked toattach it. (Announcement
No. 1110523178 on 25
November 2022 by Ministryof Labor)
2. NT$100 while applying orreissuing a work permit.

1. Those who withdraw application
will not be refunded.
2. Those who overpay or underpay
reviewing fee will be asked torepay it in accordance withregulations.
3. Refund method for overpaying(or mis-paying) exam fee: oversea Chinese or foreign student
should fill in the refund
application and attach original
receipts of overpayment (mispayment), descriptions of thereason for refund, and so on to
apply for a refund.
4. Those who apply for
information change do not needto pay reviewing fee.

Application form

1. The field in the application
form such as application
category, application type,name of applicant, gender,
nationality, passport number,residence certificate number,birth date, contact phone
number, enrolled school,department and grade,address, period of
employment application arerequired to fill out.
2. Applicant shall sign and seal
in person.
3. The seal of school
counselling unit and officer
shall be affixed (thecounselling unit incudes

1. If there is any doubt about
the student’s identity, theschool shall verify it
according to its rights andresponsibilities and attach
relevant supporting
documents.
2. The field of signature and seal ofhead of school counselling unit
in the application form shall not
be affixed on behalf of schoolclerk without authorization ofunit head. “PP” shall be noted
beside seal if this field wasaffixed by school clerk or staff.

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4.

Documents

Photocopy ofpassport

Review Principles
department, student
counselling unit andadministrative unit.
1. The passport shall still bevalid at the commencement
date of employment
application.
2. The information page andsignature page shall becomplete, clear andidentifiable.
3. It is not admitted for theresident of mainland China
to work in Taiwan except
those from Hong Kong andMacau.

NoticesIn case of a passport renewal, theapplicant should also provide bothold and new passports so as tofacilitate the check and changes.

Other Regulations

SerialNo.
1

Item
Declaration of picking
up in person

Relevant Regulations andDescription
For those trying to get the form inperson, please go on line to click
the button of “Pick it Up in
Person” on “Way of receiving theofficial document”; or, fill in a
declaration of getting forms inperson, and take it to the counterof the Ministry of Labor (MOL)
personally; do not send it byregistered mail.

2Principle of affixing
with seal

For the copied document attachedin the application, the words of“in conformity with the original”
shall be noted with the seal orsignature of applicant.

3

Discretion standard
for validity of work
permit1. The part-time job of overseas
Chinese ethnic Chinese andforeign student shall meet
Paragraph 1,Article 54 ofRegulations on the6

NoticeFor getting forms personally, theapplicant himself/herself or agent
should go to the MOL counter (10F,
No. 39, Sect. 1, Zhonghua Road,Zhongzheng District, Taipei) to get theapplication form in person. The
applicant should get the application
form when providing the original
receipt of picking it up in person.

1. The work permits will be invalid if
students quit, drop out, graduate, orlanguage leaning or phased skill
training program are over.
2. Applications applied between

Permission andAdministration of the
Employment of Foreign
Workers that the validity ofwork permit(s) of type D
foreign worker(s) shall not belonger than one year.
2. Foreign students, overseas
Chinese students and ethnic
Chinese students apply work
permit during October 1 of
the applying year to
September 30 of next year in
the academic year, theduration of the permit cannot
exceed September 30 of thenext year. However, the said
regulation which last day is
September 30 can be
exempted if copy of student
ID with stamps of the school
registration department orregistration certificate for the
first semester of the next
academic year are attached.
Meanwhile, foreign students
leaning Chinese in Taiwan
can only apply work permit
with duration as long as thecurrent registered semester.
And the work permits will beinvalid if students quit, dropout, graduate, or language
leaning or phased skill
training program are over.
3. If application time is shorter
than the academic year, work
permit will be issued basedon application time.
4. The “registration period” on
the back of student ID oflanguage center shall be thebasis of application period.
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October 1 to September 30 of next
year in the first semester ofacademic year, registration
certificate can be waived if school
reviews the application to bealready registered. If the starting
date of the issuing working period
to be issuing day or specific day
after issuing day, the last date of
the work permit will be September
30 at most.(For example,application is applied on November
5, 2023, the last date of the work
permit will be September 30 atmost).
3. If students already finish registered
for the first semester of the next
academic year, and registration
certificate issued by the school isattached. The issuing duration canbe 1 year at most according to theapplying period. The period will
not be limited to the last day as
September 30. (For example,
application is applied on June,
2024 of the 2023 academic yearwith applying duration from July 1,
2023 to June 30, 2024. If
registration certificate for the firstsemester of the 2024 academic year
is attached, the last issuing date of
the working period can be June 30,2025.)
4. Oversea Chinese and Ethnic
Chinese students studying in public
or private high school should apply
for a work permit after thesemester begins. Their registration
should be recognized based on theaudit result examined by theschool. According to Article 3 of“Regulations of school year,
semester and holidays for students

in various schools”, the firstsemester is from Aug. 1 of thefollowing year, while the second
semester is from Feb. 1 to July 31.
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Weekly working hours

5

Electronic service

The part-time job of overseas
Chinese, ethnic Chinese andforeign student shall meet Article
50 of Employment Service Act
that with the exception of thewinter and summer vacations,
their sum of working hours shallnot exceed 20 hours per week.
1.
Measures for delivering work
permit letters by electronic
service have been put into
practice from Jan. 1, 2020.
2.
Oversea Chinese and foreign
students should go on thewebsite“EZ Work Permit”(https://ezwp.wda.gov.tw/) to“agree” to this kind of delivery.
After permission by the MOL, theapplicant should directly go to theapplied website to receive the work
permit letter.
3.

8For those who “disagree”, thework permit letter will be sent by
mail after the application isapproved by the MOL.
After the MOL informs byemail, Chinese youth and foreign
students should go to thewebsite“EZ Work Permit” toreceive it in 8 days. Or, thesystem will close the function of“receiving electronic document”,
and directly send the paper
version to the school where theapplicant studies.
After agreeing to receive
electronic delivery, the applicant
can further choose the functionof “mobile review device”.
When the device uploads, thescreen will show a QR code to
let the employer scan theverification to identify
authenticity. When the device islaid horizontally, the screen will
display information about work
permits foremployers to check.