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Taiwan. What the capital buys, and what it risks.
Residence granted on the strength of an approved investment in a Taiwanese company, not on a job offer.
When rules change mid-way, the date your application is filed is what often decides which rules apply to you. Where are you right now?
Taiwan's Resident Visa for Investment is built around placing capital in a Taiwanese company. The money becomes your investment in that company; it is not a fee or a donation paid to the government. The investment is reviewed and approved first by the Department of Investment Review, the Bureau of Consular Affairs then issues the visa, and the National Immigration Agency issues the residence certificate after arrival. This route is separate from the entrepreneur visa and from the Employment Gold Card, and it is also separate from a faster permanent-residence track that exists for much larger investments on different terms.
What you keep, what you don't
1 tiers, three very different relationships with your money. Everything below is what Immimaps has verified against Taiwan's official programme rules — not a marketing minimum.
Your money is exposed to the asset it sits in, or spent outright. Where the source names a holding period, it's in the ledger below.
The ledger
| Route | Capital | Your money is | Hold period | Comes back? | Service fees on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan Resident Visa for Investment | $200,000one-time | Capital at risk | — | At market | TWD 70,904typical · middle half TWD 57,750–120,000 · 5 firmsmixed scope, visa application only to full package · tax included on 1 of 5, excluded on 1, not stated on 3 · undated Check a proposal |
What each route costs, stage by stage
Added up from the official figures on file for each route — split into money spent for good, money locked and returned later, and money shown but never transferred. Not a modelled estimate.
Taiwan Resident Visa for Investment▾
At application
- Spent for goodGovernment fees on file: NT$3,200 – NT$9,400, paid to the government for the initial application.
- Locked$200,000 placed as capital — recoverable in principle, exposed in practice.
Figures in more than one currency; not added together.
The order Taiwan Resident Visa for Investment follows
No confirmed rule change has been flagged for Taiwan since it was last checked against the official boca.gov.tw portal on 2026-10-01. Immimaps keeps watching official immigration sources and will list dated changes here as soon as one is confirmed.
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Check my documentCountry Analysis lays out policy stability, financial exposure and process risk across all of Taiwan's routes side by side.
Open Country AnalysisEvery official figure on this page is checked against Taiwan's official immigration sources. Service fees are what independent firms publish for a route — not an official figure, and never any one firm's price. Immimaps does not publish success rates, approval odds or any probability score — here or anywhere else.
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