Regulations Governing Employment Gold Card Permit for Foreign Specialist Professionals Article 13

Where the documents required to be submitted for an Employment Gold Card application are produced overseas, they shall be authenticated by an overseas mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Those produced domestically by foreign embassies or their authorized representative agencies in the state or authenticated, certified, or verified by them must be further authenticated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Documents produced in mainland China, Hong Kong, or Macau shall be authenticated by institutions established or designated by the Executive Yuan, or by private organizations commissioned by the Executive Yuan.Where the documents referred to in the preceding paragraph are in a foreign language, an English or Chinese translation shall be attached.Authentication of foreign public documents shall be conducted in accordance with the Document Legalization Act for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Overseas Missions, where the circumstances provided in Article 15-1 thereof apply.