Salary Requirements--immigration & Labour Dept

[Misty]

Can anyone please verify if the following are correct?

To get or renew a Work Permit from the Labour Dept in Bangkok, you need to show that you earn enough salary to pay Bt18,000 in personal income tax each year? (With the recent increase in tax exemption to Bt150k per year, this would work out to c.Bt35,000 per month minimum).

If you are a European or American, to get a one year extension of stay from Immigration for business purposes, you need to be paid a minimum salary of Bt50,000 per month?

Immigration has no minimum salary requirement to grant someone a dependent visa who is also working? (This implies the Labour Dept's minimum of Bt35,000 should be used.)

Many thanks, Misty

Edited June 27, 2008 by Misty

[Pattaya46]

Hi,

I think your first point changed recently :

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?s=...t&p=2042505

[Mario2008]

A dependent visa is based on being dependend, not on salary. If they want to work, not sure if they can on dependent visa, they will need to have a workpermit and meet the requirements for that.

If you mean if there is a minimum income requirement for the person who you are dependend on the answer is no.

http://www.immigration.go.th/nov2004/2notice/rtp606EN.pdf

Page 9, point 7.19 gives the requirements for dependend visa.

[Misty]

Hi,

Pattaya46 thanks for that link. Sorry I missed it when I was searching the forum. From reading it, I understand that Bangkok Labour Dept's previous requirment of paying Bt18,000 minimum income tax per year is no longer in force. INstead, if you're renewing an existing work permit, you're being grandfathered in at whatever your past salary was. For any new work permit applicants, looks like the Labour Dept now wants you to meet Immigration's minimums for a 1 year extension for business. Immigration's requirements apparently haven't changed. Still need Bt50k monthly salary to receive a 1 year extension for business.

Mario2008, thanks for that. Understood that a dependent visa has nothing to do with anyone's salary. Dependents can indeed work if they have a work permit.

Cheers, Misty