Taiwan has introduced a "digital nomad" visa that grants six-month stays to foreigners who travel around the world and work remotely to address staffing shortages caused by declining fertility rates.
According to Taiwan's National Development Committee and Hong Kong's South China Morning Post (SCMP), Taiwan officially began issuing digital nomadic visas this month.
The visa was first introduced in the southern city of Tainan, which allows foreigners working while traveling around the world using information technology (IT) devices to stay in Taiwan for up to six months.
Taiwan's introduction of digital Nomad visas is one of the measures to address declining fertility rates and the resulting labor shortage, with Taiwan aiming to attract 400,000 foreign workers by 2032.
Since 2018, Taiwan has been actively attracting foreign professionals by issuing a "job gold card," a visa that allows foreigners with professional skills in science and technology to work in Taiwan for one to three years, and this is the first time that a visa has been introduced for digital nomads.
Taiwan aims to attract 400,000 more foreign workers by 2032, attracting skilled high-income foreign workers with digital nomadic visas, and converting some of them to work gold card visas.
As of the end of 2023, Taiwan had 69,509 foreign professionals and 754,130 registered migrant workers.
Taiwan's total fertility rate (the number of children one woman is expected to have in her lifetime) was 0.87 as of 2022, the lowest in the world, along with South Korea (0.72 in 2023) and Hong Kong (0.77 in 2021).
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According to Taiwan's National Development Committee and Hong Kong's South China Morning Post (SCMP), Taiwan officially began issuing digital nomadic visas this month.
The visa was first introduced in the southern city of Tainan, which allows foreigners working while traveling around the world using information technology (IT) devices to stay in Taiwan for up to six months.
Taiwan's introduction of digital Nomad visas is one of the measures to address declining fertility rates and the resulting labor shortage, with Taiwan aiming to attract 400,000 foreign workers by 2032.
Since 2018, Taiwan has been actively attracting foreign professionals by issuing a "job gold card," a visa that allows foreigners with professional skills in science and technology to work in Taiwan for one to three years, and this is the first time that a visa has been introduced for digital nomads.
Taiwan aims to attract 400,000 more foreign workers by 2032, attracting skilled high-income foreign workers with digital nomadic visas, and converting some of them to work gold card visas.
As of the end of 2023, Taiwan had 69,509 foreign professionals and 754,130 registered migrant workers.
Taiwan's total fertility rate (the number of children one woman is expected to have in her lifetime) was 0.87 as of 2022, the lowest in the world, along with South Korea (0.72 in 2023) and Hong Kong (0.77 in 2021).
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