Admission guide (1/4) for Pakistani students admitted in Taiwan for PhD studies

Part 1

Attestation in Pakistan (Documents preparation for Saudi Arabia)

Part 2

Thailand Visa Process

Part 3

Visa application in Thailand

Part 4

Thailand to Taiwan

SUMMARY PART 1

Since Pakistan doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Taiwan, so, Saudi Arabia is a linkage between Pakistan and Taiwan for all the attestation and authentication process to get visa of Taiwan. Mostly, students need to go to Thailand or Dubai to get Taiwan visa.  However, Thailand is quite suitable place (visited by most of students) to apply visa of Taiwan. To get into the Taiwan for study, you need to attest documents from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, get the visa of Thailand and finally, apply visa of Taiwan from Thailand.

THINGS TO DO

After receiving admission letter you need to send few documents to Riyadh Saudi Arabia to get attested from

1.      Pakistan Embassy

2.      Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office, Riyadh (TECRO) link here

Here is the detail of all the documents and the procedure you need to follow.

Step 1/3

     1.      You need to attest your all degrees with final transcript from HEC click here for detail

Detail

First you need to get your Matric and FSc certificates attested from Inter Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC), Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Islamabad (link). Then HEC will accept your degree and transcripts from BSC onward to make them attested.

NOTE: You just need to send final degree and transcript attested from Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Foreign Office (FO) to Saudi Arabia. 

Step 2/3

      2.    Get your Final degree, Transcript, Authority letter and Medical Form attested from Foreign Office Islamabad click here for detail

Detail

Before going to Foreign office you need to

a)      Get your medical done from any government hospital

For Academia Sinica Students

You need to have your medical from any government hospital. Medical Form must have stamp and signature of Physician and Medical Superintendent. If you got admission in Academia Sinica then you have choice of having medical in Pakistan or not. Medical is required in case you apply for residence visa. Sinica students can get visitor visa which needs to be converted to residence visa here in Taipei. Your respective department and TIGP office will help you to get it done.

Other University students

If you get admission other than Academia Sinica, you have to talk to your university to send your details to Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Bangkok, before your arrival to Thailand. If they do so, you have chance to get visit visa within 3 days and move to Taiwan. In case you can’t get visit visa, then you must need attested medical form and a guarantee letter (*details below)

b)      Authority Letter (attested by Notary Public and Foreign Office) to the name of your agent (Your relative or friend living in Riyadh or in surroundings because he needs to visit Pak embassy and TECRO few times (or many times) to inquire about the documents)

Step 3/3

Send the following documents to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to your agent

1.      Attested Degree and transcript

2.      Admission letter (copy)

3.      Medical Form

4.      Authority letter

5.      Passport (copy of complete passport (page 1 to last), they will check your travel history and validity must be more than a year (6 months at least, otherwise apply for fresh passport))

(Keep notice that every page of documents needs money to get attested)

*(If you are not Academia Sinica student) When you apply for residence visa in Thailand, they will send your all documents to Bureau of Consulate Affair (BOCA) Taipei, for cross verification. You need to find someone Taiwanese (professor, adviser or supervisor) in your university who can fill guarantee letter (picture below) and provide his ID copy which will be submitted in Taipei (by your friend or your university) after your visa application in Thailand. Any friend of you can go to your university to get form attested (prof stamp, signature, ID copy pasted over form and university/department stamp) and submit to BOCA office in Taipei. Whole process takes at least 8 to 10 days so, be cool and calm and enjoy Thailand meanwhile.

Pictures

1.      Medical Form Page 1

 Medical Form Page 2

2.      Authority Letter (to be filled for the agent in Saudi Arabia)

1.      Guarantee Letter Page 1 (this letter can be downloaded or taken from BOCA office)

END OF PART 1/4