For foreigners hired to perform construction jobs, the employer should have one of the following qualifications:

Qualification 1. Major project approved by Ministry of Labor and project tender received or project contract signed after May 16, 2001. Major project should be one of the following requirements: 

◆　Private organization as employers: 

The major construction projects invested by private institutions and approved by the central competent authorities, with total amount of the project exceeds NT$10 billion or more, and the duration of the project is over one year and six months.

◆　A tender winner who has a written contract with a private institution as the employer: 

Private construction project meets the previous qualification and the total amount of the construction contract exceeds NT$1 billion, and the duration of the project is over one year and six months.

◆　The tender winner who has a written contract with a government agency as the employer:

Undertake and build an important construction project contracted by government agencies or public enterprises. The total amount of the construction approved by the central competent authorities should be over NT$10 billion, and the total amount of individual construction contracts should be over NT$ 1 billion and the duration of the project is over one year and six months.

◆　Public organization as employer:

The total amount of the construction approved by the central competent authorities exceeds NT$10 billion, and the total amount of individual construction contracts exceeds NT$ 1 billion and the duration of the project is over one year and six months.

In accordance with Act for Promotion of Private Participation in Infrastructure Projects, a government project shall be handled by a private institution who has a written contract with the government agency in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

Qualification 2. Comply with the following major projects that the construction project tender received, or contract signed before May 16, 2001.

◆　Major public construction projects under the Twelve Major Infrastructure Programs controlled and audited by the Executive Yuan, or any national economic construction projects approved and registered by the Executive Yuan, and their total amount of construction exceeds NT$100 million.

◆　Other construction projects initiated by governmental authorities outside the preceding Item, their total amount of construction exceeds NT$200 million, and the duration of construction is over five hundred and forty-seven calendar days.

◆　Public-enterprise construction projects invested by the private sector and approved by the competent authorities for other purposes at the central governmental level and designated as special cases, their total amount of construction exceeds NT$200 million, and their duration of construction is over five hundred and forth-seven calendar days.

◆　Construction projects invested by the private sector and approved and promoted by governmental authorities, or major public construction projects participated by civilian institutions and approved by the competent authorities, the total amount of the major construction projects or the promoted construction projects exceeds NT$200 million, and their duration of construction is over five hundred and forty-seven calendar days.

◆　The non civil engineering programs affiliated with those construction projects that are consistent with the qualifications listed in the preceding Items, their total amount of construction exceeds NT$50 million, and their duration of construction is over five hundred and forty-seven calendar days.

◆　Construction projects for public or private schools or medical institutions, their total amount of construction exceeds NT$150 million, and their duration of construction is over five hundred and forty-seven days.

◆　Construction projects for public or private social welfare institutions, their total amount of construction exceeds NT$100 million, and their duration of construction is over five hundred and forty-seven calendar days.

◆　Construction projects for factories of major investment projects for manufacturing industries.