Submitting your university diploma for a skilled worker or employment visa application in Taiwan requires more than a notarized photocopy. Receiving authorities in Taiwan verify documents through an internationally agreed apostille procedure that ties your original record to a recognized state authority in the country of issuance. The order in which the steps are performed matters: a translation completed before the apostille is added is usually rejected, and missing the prior state-level authentication is the single most common reason Taiwan returns documents unprocessed.
Documents bound for Taiwan are authenticated through the Hague Apostille issuing authority designated by the government of Taiwan, typically the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or an equivalent national legalization office. Because both Taiwan and most likely the country where the document was issued are members of the 1961 Hague Apostille Convention, a single apostille certificate is sufficient — no embassy legalization is needed.
Yes. The apostille we issue is performed by the Hague Apostille issuing authority designated by the government of Taiwan, typically the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or an equivalent national legalization office, the recognized authority for documents of this type. Receiving institutions in Taiwan — embassies, consulates, employers and immigration offices — verify the document through the same channel.
If your diploma is not in one of Taiwan's working languages, a sworn translation is normally required in addition to the apostille. We can add a certified translation as part of the same order.
Three issues account for most rejections: (1) the apostille is missing or was issued by a non-competent authority; (2) the translation was completed by a translator not recognized in Taiwan; (3) the order of operations was wrong — for example, a translation produced before the apostille was added, leaving the apostille text untranslated. We sequence the chain correctly the first time.
Generally no. Taiwan authorities for skilled worker or employment visa application purposes require the physical original or a re-issued certified true copy bearing a wet-ink stamp from the issuing institution. Digital-only documents are accepted only for a narrow set of issuers that publish a verifiable online register.
Employers and skilled-worker visa officers in Taiwan sit on dozens of applications per week. A document chain that arrives correctly authenticated and translated the first time moves through the queue faster, while a chain with a missing step is set aside and often only flagged after weeks of waiting. We process your university diploma so that the work-visa decision-maker can verify it on first inspection.