Work Permit Photos

[AmorSamui]

Just a quick question as I've never seen this mentioned before, but has anyone had to submit photos of them at their workplace prior to getting a work permit? My lawyer is requesting photos of me at the office of my newley formed company standing beneath a sign, as well as me at work in the office.

My company is Internet based and I work from home, so also do not have an office as such - just a room set aside from where I work. The registered office address is a house I rented for 6 months, but since applying for the formation of the company and the papers coming through I have moved house so can't get pics of me at the 'registered office' any longer. I'll soon be changing registered office address to that of a friends so I don't have to keep changing with each move.

Surely the request for photos of me working cannot be correct as I can't work prior to obtaining the work permit !?!?!

Is this a new law or am I totally misunderstanding my lawyer?

I've also submitted the 'passport type' photos needed for work permit so these are totally different to those.

[astral]

There was mention in another thread of Immigration asking for photos of other employees in the company

as a way of checking that there were enough to justify a foreign employee.

So my guess is that your lawyer is correct, and it is all part of the tightening up process.