Intermediate skilled or technical retention — experienced foreign worker

employers may apply to transition senior migrant workers who have worked in Taiwan for 6 years or more, or overseas Chinese and foreign students who have obtained an associate degree or higher in Taiwan, into foreign technical workers

employers may apply to transition senior migrant workers who have worked in Taiwan for 6 years or more, or overseas Chinese and foreign students who have obtained an associate degree or higher in Taiwan, into foreign technical workers

(1) Original employer wants to apply for a foreign worker to become an intermediate skilled worker: employers can apply for an immediate upgrade for foreign workers who have already worked for them for an accumulated 6 years or more without having to wait for the current employment permit to end.

(2) New employer wants to apply to upgrade a foreign worker to an intermediate skilled worker: new employers can file an employment application 2-4 months before the employment contract ends when a foreign worker has worked in Taiwan for a consecutive 6 years or more, an accumulated 6 years or more for the same employer, or an accumulated 11 years and 6 months.

Foreign skilled workers employed to engage in work specially approved pursuant to Paragraph 11, Paragraph 1, Article 46, of the Act can perform the following duties: 1. Bilingual translation work: Engaging in translation work related to counseling and management at private employment services agencies providing cross-border labor brokerage services. 2. Chef and related work: Engaging in food preparation and related work at private employment services agencies providing cross-border labor brokerage services. 3. Manufacturing skilled work: Engaging in product manufacturing skills, the operation of machinery and equipment, and assembly work at manufacturing process factories designated in Article 15. 4. Construction skilled work: Engaging in skilled labor, operation of machinery and equipment, and assembly work on projects designated in Articles 16, 17, or 22. 5. Ocean fishing skilled work: Engaging in ocean fishing work on fishing vessels or in offshore cage aquaculture zones as designated in Article 23. 6. Slaughterhouse skilled work: Engaging in poultry and livestock unloading, tethering, stunning, slaughtering, carcass processing, and packaging at locations designated in Article 25. 7. Outreach agricultural skilled work: Engaging in agricultural, forestry, animal husbandry, or aquaculture skilled work at locations designated as outreach agricultural service contract venues as detailed in Article 26. 8. Agricultural, forestry, animal husbandry, or aquaculture skilled work: Engaging in agricultural, forestry, animal husbandry, or aquaculture work at locations designated in Paragraph 1, Article 29. 9. Institutional caregiving skilled work: Providing daily living support, assistance, and care related work to individuals institutionalized with physical or mental disabilities or patients at institutions or hospitals designated in Article 30. 10. Live-in caregiving skilled work: Providing personal health care services to care recipients in homes designated in Article 31. 11. Diversified companion and care services skilled work: Assigned by a diversified companion and care services pilot services agency evaluated and approved by the Central Competent Authority to provide daily living support, companionship and related work to individuals with disabilities or patients at service locations designated in a service contract.

(Ⅳ)Unless authorized by the Central Competent Authority under specific circumstances outlined in Paragraph 1 of Article 59, foreign workers employed in job categories listed in Subparagraphs 8 to 11 of Paragraph 1 of Article 46 may not change employers or work types.

Foreign technical workers face no limit on their duration of stay in Taiwan, enjoy higher wages, refine their technical skills, and are exempt from paying employment stability fees. Furthermore, after working for an additional 5 years, they become eligible to transition into the permanent residence system.