My contract finishes in April .  My school wants  me  to give up my work permit so they can start in cancellation paperwork. 

The person who does it won't be there a lot until the end.. ive made copies etc

 

Is this normal ..and Ok .. i know everything needs to be cancelled these days etc

If your work permit is canceled you cannot work anymore and your extension is technically no longer valid.

If they are just completing the paperwork then it would be ok.

35 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

If your work permit is canceled you cannot work anymore and your extension is technically no longer valid.

If they are just completing the paperwork then it would be ok.

UJ: Just curious what your thoughts are on how the authorities handle the "technically no longer valid" extensions.

 

For example, if someone has an extension due to work that expires at the end of April, and their work (rightly or wrongly) cancels the work permit in late March, how likely is this to cause a problem? Understanding that the extension shouldn't be considered valid because the underlying reason for it is no longer valid, who is really going to know? If someone in that position heads to BKK to fly out of Thailand in April, is it going to trigger something when getting stamped out of immigration? Are they just going to go by the stamped extension of stay, or if/when they look you up in the computer, is there going to be smooth communication from the Labor Department showing the cancelled work permit and therefore the no-longer-valid extension, which equals an overstay of X?

 

Or, to go a step further, what about secondary extensions based off the first? For example, a spouse or child who gets an extension based on a family member's work permit. 

 

To put it another way, I get that the approval for these extensions is based on underlying grounds (a work permit, marriage, etc.), but how efficient is the Thai bureaucracy at knowing that the underlying grounds are now gone, and how efficient is the left hand at communicating with the right?

27 minutes ago, scottiddled said:

To put it another way, I get that the approval for these extensions is based on underlying grounds (a work permit, marriage, etc.), but how efficient is the Thai bureaucracy at knowing that the underlying grounds are now gone, and how efficient is the left hand at communicating with the right?

The only way immigration would know about any of your examples would be if somebody told them. There is no automatic linkage between them.

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

If your work permit is canceled you cannot work anymore and your extension is technically no longer valid.

If they are just completing the paperwork then it would be ok.

yes thats what they say, but ive taken copies of everything of course including the resignation letter they made me sign which I put 30.04.2020.

Sounds suspicious to me. Why would they need 2+ months preparation time to cancel your work permit?

Maybe they intend to cancel it before.

I would tell them that i will cancel the work permit myself on my last day of work and would not hand it over to them.

48 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

The only way immigration would know about any of your examples would be if somebody told them. There is no automatic linkage between them.

Thanks, UJ. 

 

I always wondered about that. I have a colleague that got divorced last year (wife was not working) and was curious what sort of immigration implications might have applied given that (I think) her extension of stay was based on his extension of stay which was based on work. Given the (in)efficiency of Thai bureaucracy, I was highly skeptical of one person's "she had to leave immediately" argument, as if someone at BKK was able to see on their screen when a divorce kicked in--and the dominoes that fell after that.