You pay after getting approved. Which is the main reason I came to Taipei. You submit everything between 9a-11:30. They tell you to come back a 3p to get the decision and pay if approved. Then have to go back next day at 4p to pick up. It’s 11,000 TWD which converted at todays rate was $354 from USD.
I don’t fly here for my company as we stopped just before Covid. We will begin flying here once we receive our new Ac where we can fly nonstop from US. I just choose to live here because I love it here and my job affords me that opportunity. We have crew who live all over the world and commute to the us for their flights/work then go back home