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It was fine by the way

did you get your wp cancelled at the labour office?

On 10/16/2023 at 9:26 PM, hydraides said:

Has anyone recently left a job/Thailand (After being on a Non-B/Work permit.......

 

and returned to thailand within the next few days on a visa emept 30 day entry?

 

Were you successful, did you go back by land or air?

 

I've been teaching in thailand for 1 year on a Non-B/Work permit and want to switch jobs and need a new visa exempt

 

How risky do you think it is for me?

how did that go?

12 hours ago, Chris Daley said:

You can just phone up the immigration office and get them to check or visit the immigration office and ask them.

Phone up / visit any immigration office, (we are talking about different provinces here btw..) and enquire about whether I can apply for a new work permit? isn't that the labour office?  (trying to learn something else here)

hypothetical question being : Hi, Can you check if there is anything that will stop my school from being able to apply for a work permit for me?  

Thanks for all your comments by the way, I feel very isolated in this situation and your replies are easing things ... slightly

3 minutes ago, BangkokAlan said:

I wouldn't worry about what's gone in the past, I am sure that company has just moved on

I am on that side of the fence but what about my fellow teacher having problems, despite working for them 3 years ago

2 minutes ago, BangkokAlan said:

How did you get an initial work permit without a contract?

Good question, the answer is they had the contract and sent to WP permit people but never shared with me, the employee

9 minutes ago, Woof999 said:

Not teaching English I hope?

TEFL jobs both..

Hi,

I worked in Thailand 7 years ago

I went to the work permit office once I decided to leave my school and return to UK, to try and hand them my work permit

They said I needed a letter from my employer to void the WP

I called my school and they said I owed THEM money.  as I was on guaranteed salary scheme as my lessons were less than the minimum pay out (20 per week), for the majority of my time there

They added it up and said I owed X amount of money

So I just flew home and forgot about it..

They never gave me a contract so it was hard to follow resignation procedures

Anyway

New potential stressful problem now

I am back in Thailand, and am wondering whether my new school will have a problem 7 years later issuing me a work permit. 

Surely this has lapsed and the work permit office will grant me another - I have heard a fellow teacher having a similar problem but was a 3 year gap not seven.

I have a new passport / passport number

Your thoughts please! this is really bothering me, sadly. 

the work permit I threw away. I am thinking a Thai lawyer could sort this if the WP application is rejected by the work permit office due to the old one still being live (despite them only having a one year life span, which confuses me enormously.)

  I wouldnt of worried at all unless I met the Thai person at the school who deals with this and she was saying about he other teacher having the WP problem from he same Ex school , of course

7 hours ago, Centrum said:

That discounting the third wave of a more easily transmissible variant. I'm not confident October will be anywhere near the end.

I just read in the guardian that they will give us a top up vaccine as soon as the autumn for the 3rd wave variant. Furthermore a jab ecery year like the flu jab should allow the world to return to normality 

Hello

just wandered how much faith people are putting into this 1st October thing for going to Thailand without Quarantine

I am thinking it might not be all open and just phuket and koh samui but I wander what your thoughts are

thinking of holidaying with my thai wife from UK in november when they hopefully open the whole place up

heard it from multiple sources not just the below so now starting to actually believe it...

https://loyaltylobby.com/2021/03/19/thailand-potentially-opens-up-for-quarantine-free-travel-from-october-1-2021/

https://www.chiangraitimes.com/tourism/thailand-to-end-quarantine-for-all-travellers-by-october-1st-2021/

https://eturbonews.com/581041/thailand-to-re-open-phuket-to-foreign-visitors-on-october-1/