What documents are needed for self-employed visa applications in Taipei, and what is the approval experience like?

Got it this week, I took about 200 pages of personal and business bank statements, company deeds, invoice examples, signed client offers, all translated in TH and EN. They were all categorized and came with a supporting document. The lady took it, threw it around the desk, asked questions but not listen to the answers. They really gave me and the other business owners that applied a hard time. Things they ask: company registration number, company deeds or anything that shows you are the owner, contracts stating you can work abroad (even if you write it to yourself) at least three months of bank statements (I took 6), also take business statements to highlight transactions that support your income. They want to see the income on your statement every month. Make sure it is all in English, they made an issue about October being spelled with a K in Dutch. I also made a document with all invoices from my company so they can compare with incoming business payments. Official papers (like company deed, business registration number) need to be original, signed and notarized. They made us come back at 4PM that afternoon and again they questioned every business owner (for instance why the example invoice was not paid in the same month as the invoice date, that particular client has 90 days to pay). Our company is quite large and stable, my husband and I are not freelancers and we have a stable and substantial income from it, but they really took their time to give the approval. In the end all business owners got the DTV, but Taipei is really not that easy anymore…for a second I thought our application would fail.

Same here. LLC in UAE, I'm the owner, director, manager and only shareholder. I've had some email correspondance with them. Company formation certificate seems to be enough. I guess, since it's your company, they don't want to see the employment contract because you'd be writing and signing it yourself anyway.

At least that's what they said for my (our) case.

And then of course the application form, passport photo and copy and the bank statement. I've send them one example, only showing the current balance. They were ok with it. They even were ok with it being the company bank account because Payoneer (which I use) shows my name next to the company name.

Let's see if it works when applying but via email they confirmed. Looking forward to that, seems like the Taipei embassy is amaznig. 🙂

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