Hi there,

I'm researching moving to Thailand (Phuket) from the U.K. for a year with my husband. I will be training full time in Muay Thai with a camp who are able to send me a letter of invitation and business regulations to apply for a 1 year multiple entry education visa, which I gather I should do at the Thai Consulate in Scotland. My husband, however, would need to work - is it possible to get a work permit for a year, and how do you apply for one?

Any advice would be very much appreciated, because it's all a bit nerve-wracking!

thank you

Sarah

...My husband, however, would need to work - is it possible to get a work permit for a year, and how do you apply for one?...

I believe his employer in Thailand would have to apply for his work permit.

Thanks - so find the job first, then they apply for the visa. Do you know whether you then need to stay with the same employer, or whether you can then get a 2nd job, or an entirely different job once you're over?

Finding a job that provides a work permit is not exactly a piece of cake for most people (but you did not give any qualification so maybe he will be lucky). He could likely obtain a multi entry non immigrant O visa from Hull to cover the years stay. You do not have to be here on a business visa to look for work.

Thanks - so find the job first, then they apply for the visa. Do you know whether you then need to stay with the same employer, or whether you can then get a 2nd job, or an entirely different job once you're over?

You must stay with the same employer because if you have an extension of stay to work then when the employment is ended you have 7 days to leave the country. Technically you would need a 2nd work permit for a 2nd job but you are allowed to change employers and transfer the work permit (but I don't know under what circumstances)

Lopburi3's advice re the 1 year O visa from Hull is the best way to start.

And if they want to change the work permit from one employer to another, it would require the cooperation of both employers. So if you burn off the first one by getting the work permit and quitting, they would probably not feel much like helping you.

But if you just got a new work permit for the second employer, it would not require the cooperation of the first one.

Edited March 11, 200818 yr by jstumbo