Our landlord/housing development owner did a TM30 when we started living here in July (on visa exemption). We traveled to Hong Kong in the meanwhile and when we came back I asked if the TM30 needed to be renewed. He said no because our TM30 was registered until the end or our lease in January. Is that right? We recently travelled to Taipei and got the DTV, when we got home we did not bother him about the TM30 again.

So we need the TM30 for the 90-days reporting, then it probably should be renewed after we arrived home from Taipei?

@Dominic *****

I think they have gotten more strict. All the other applicants that have their own business were given a hard time. They made us all wait while they handled the other applicants that came in under soft power. There were self employed/freelancers but also other couples with registered businesses and sufficient income/revenue.

@Andi **********

definitely, but they are still very fast, next day pickup still applies.

@Dominic *****

I took 6 months, they asked for Jul/Aug/Oct. So you might be ok! Highlight the transactions that show a monthly income for those months.

@Dominic *****

for your reference, I thought it would be really easy and my husband and I came over prepared…please take everything you can think of, they will ask you for more than just a few items and there is 0 space for explanation…they don’t really listen when they ask you anything. 😊

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.

@Rom ******

do they need 2 months of bank transactions or 2 months of fixed amount of 500k?

Do you need 500k for kids too? Or only for yourself and your partner? And can your business be a sponsor? We have that money on a business savings account, but I can not/don’t want to show it 4x on my private checking account for at least 1-3 months.