Changing Job-New Work Permit And Visa?

[DrChristopher]

Hi,

I am changing jobs in late September and I am a bit confused about my visa and work permit. I have a Non-Imm B visa whose extension runs out on Sept 30. My Work Permit expires on October 2. My questions are:

a) Do I have to apply for a new Non-Imm B visa, or can I extend the same one again (seeing I have a different employer)? For the work permit, can this also be simply extended to the new company, or will I need a new one?

Seeing I have a 3 year contract, can Non-Imm B visas and work permits be obtained for 3 years rather than just 1 yearly intervals?

Anyone has any advice on this please let me know. I am not sure whether changing provinces will be an issue (Bangkok to Rayong)....please advise if you can help!

Thanks, Chris

[Mario2008]

You are on an extension of stay based on employment. The day your employment ends, you have to cancel your work permit and cancel your permission to stay and leave the country. (For both you will need a letter from your employer that your job ended today). However, you can get a 7 day extension from immigration. if you can get a new work permit within those 7 days, you can apply for a new 1 year extension of stay, without having to leave the country. So have the new employer ready all the paperwork you will need in advance.

Nowadays a work permit can be issued for 2 years, but it doesn't happen very often. Will depend on your labour office if they want to or not. The maximum extension of stay you can get is still 1 year.

[scorecard]

You are on an extension of stay based on employment. The day your employment ends, you have to cancel your work permit and cancel your permission to stay and leave the country. (For both you will need a letter from your employer that your job ended today). However, you can get a 7 day extension from immigration. if you can get a new work permit within those 7 days, you can apply for a new 1 year extension of stay, without having to leave the country. So have the new employer ready all the paperwork you will need in advance.

Nowadays a work permit can be issued for 2 years, but it doesn't happen very often. Will depend on your labour office if they want to or not. The maximum extension of stay you can get is still 1 year.

Transfer of a work permit from one employer to another employer is possible but is quite messy and involves the old employer making certain guarantees for the first three months of your new emplotment (a period of time during which the old employer has no control over your actual work, or payment of taxes, and part of the guarantee your old employer has to sign is a guarantee that the various taxes (company and personal taxes) will be paid)therefore the old employer is never likely to get tangled up in this messy time consuming process.

And in most cases, since your leaving, the old employer wouldn't want to spend any more time or effort on administration stuff in regard to you.

It could also be true that the new employer also doesn't want to get involved in this messy process, they would rather just go the known route for a new WP.

Since you have to be careful about the final date of the extension to stay (the visa part, as mentioned by Mario, above), it would be prudent to carefully plan the date of submittal of the application for the new work permit, and to check in advance how many days the local labour office takes to get the WP processed, which can be 7 or 8 days or same day (but same day is quite rare).

[Wolfie]

I'm gunna movethis over to the Visa/WP forum, its not really IT forum material

[DrChristopher]

I'm gunna movethis over to the Visa/WP forum, its not really IT forum material

Thanks for that!

[DrChristopher]

You are on an extension of stay based on employment. The day your employment ends, you have to cancel your work permit and cancel your permission to stay and leave the country. (For both you will need a letter from your employer that your job ended today). However, you can get a 7 day extension from immigration. if you can get a new work permit within those 7 days, you can apply for a new 1 year extension of stay, without having to leave the country. So have the new employer ready all the paperwork you will need in advance.

Nowadays a work permit can be issued for 2 years, but it doesn't happen very often. Will depend on your labour office if they want to or not. The maximum extension of stay you can get is still 1 year.

Transfer of a work permit from one employer to another employer is possible but is quite messy and involves the old employer making certain guarantees for the first three months of your new emplotment (a period of time during which the old employer has no control over your actual work, or payment of taxes, and part of the guarantee your old employer has to sign is a guarantee that the various taxes (company and personal taxes) will be paid)therefore the old employer is never likely to get tangled up in this messy time consuming process.

And in most cases, since your leaving, the old employer wouldn't want to spend any more time or effort on administration stuff in regard to you.

It could also be true that the new employer also doesn't want to get involved in this messy process, they would rather just go the known route for a new WP.

Since you have to be careful about the final date of the extension to stay (the visa part, as mentioned by Mario, above), it would be prudent to carefully plan the date of submittal of the application for the new work permit, and to check in advance how many days the local labour office takes to get the WP processed, which can be 7 or 8 days or same day (but same day is quite rare).

Hi Scorecard and Mario- thanks for the advice. I'm waiting for my future employer to ship all the documents over to me.....one this happens I think I'll just head up to Immigration with my wife (who is Thai) and ask them to best way forward.

Cheers, Chris

[Soutpeel]

You are on an extension of stay based on employment. The day your employment ends, you have to cancel your work permit and cancel your permission to stay and leave the country. (For both you will need a letter from your employer that your job ended today). However, you can get a 7 day extension from immigration. if you can get a new work permit within those 7 days, you can apply for a new 1 year extension of stay, without having to leave the country. So have the new employer ready all the paperwork you will need in advance.

Nowadays a work permit can be issued for 2 years, but it doesn't happen very often. Will depend on your labour office if they want to or not. The maximum extension of stay you can get is still 1 year.

Transfer of a work permit from one employer to another employer is possible but is quite messy and involves the old employer making certain guarantees for the first three months of your new emplotment (a period of time during which the old employer has no control over your actual work, or payment of taxes, and part of the guarantee your old employer has to sign is a guarantee that the various taxes (company and personal taxes) will be paid)therefore the old employer is never likely to get tangled up in this messy time consuming process.

And in most cases, since your leaving, the old employer wouldn't want to spend any more time or effort on administration stuff in regard to you.

It could also be true that the new employer also doesn't want to get involved in this messy process, they would rather just go the known route for a new WP.

Since you have to be careful about the final date of the extension to stay (the visa part, as mentioned by Mario, above), it would be prudent to carefully plan the date of submittal of the application for the new work permit, and to check in advance how many days the local labour office takes to get the WP processed, which can be 7 or 8 days or same day (but same day is quite rare).

Hi Scorecard and Mario- thanks for the advice. I'm waiting for my future employer to ship all the documents over to me.....one this happens I think I'll just head up to Immigration with my wife (who is Thai) and ask them to best way forward.

Cheers, Chris

In theroy it can be done, but generally less hassle to leave the country and go and get a new non-imm B, I speak from personal experience

[lopburi3]

Believe change of province makes it a no-go.