Renewing Work Permits

[2long]

A guy at work said that Immigration now ask for copies of transcripts to renew work permits. Not easy if you have a 'bent' degree....

Anyone heard 'owt or is this another one of his stories?

[lopburi3]

Immigration has nothing to do with work permits. But to extend your stay this is the current requirement on immigration web site:

Documents for the Application for further stay to study / work in private education institutes.

Required Documents

In case of student

Immigration Form 7

Copy of passport

A 4 cm. X 6 cm. Photograph

1,900 baht application fee

A certified document from the governor of the province in which the private educational institute is located or from the government department or equivalent that takes care of the institute, document must contain details about the applicant:

Name Family name

age

nationality

passport number

Total academic years - curriculum - funding

Education transcript of the applicant - length of further stay

School license (Sor Shor 2)

The Permit / certificate to be school manager (Sor Shor 5) or Principal (Sor Shor 8)

The Officials reserve the rights to examine or ask for additional documents if necessary

In case of instructing

Immigration form 7

Copy of passport

A 4 cm. X 6 cm. Photograph

1,900 baht application fee

Work / Employment Contract

Education background, degrees of diploma of the alien

Teacher license (Sor Shor 11)

Teaching permit (Sor Shor 19)

School license (Sor Shor 2)

The Permit / certificate to be school manger (Sor Shor 5) or Principal (Sor Shor 8)

A certified document from the governor of the province in which the private education institute is located or from the government department or equivalent that takes care of the institute

The document must contain details about the applicant:

Name Last name

age

Nationality

Number of passport

Position

length of teaching

salary rate

Work Permit or document showing the acceptance of the

request for working permission

When applying for further stay next year, evidence of income

Tax payment (Por Ngor Dor 91) of the previous year is required.

In case of having dependents (husband / wife, children), the certified document from the applicant accompanied with evidence showing their relationship with the applicant is required. All documents in other languages must be translated into Thai and certified by the embassy or consulate of the alien(s).

The officials reserve the rights to examine or ask for additional documents if necessary.

Note

For more information, please call 0-2285-5148

[PeaceBlondie]

Am I reading that long list correctly? A STUDENT shows transcripts, but there is no requirement for an INSTRUCTOR to show transcripts. Also, this applies to private schools in any event, not to teachers at public schools. Right?

Some Brits say that uni degrees granted before 1995 can't get transcripts. Many farang teachers here have graduation diplomas, but no transcripts. My real transcript has always looked dodgy, even though it's real. Besides, how many officers down at the MoE (let alone at Immigration) can even decipher a university transcript? ECO 203 Princ Econ 3 A ; HIS 103 West Civ 3 B ; MAT 403 Adv Calc 3 P What does all that mean? GPA - not all schools use the same point system for grade point average. The uni where I graduated has changed its name at least twice, its course names countless times. It's unlikely any of the prior staff still work in the registrar's office. There are privacy laws. I attended 10 or 11 universities, including 5 after earning my degree. If I presented transcripts for each (they overlap), it's a mess. I doubt there's any standard format from one school to another.

Granted, if a teacher graduated with a BS in math within the past ten years, they'd hope their transcript clearly lists all the specialty courses such as "Maths 403, Advanced Calculus, 3 credit hours, grade of A."

I suspect nobody's checking transcripts closely for anybody.

[lopburi3]

That is how I would read it. Don't want any bad students.

Below is for Government non higher education schools (instructing is half way down again):

Documents for the application for further stay as a student in government education institute

Required Documents

In case of studying

Immigration Form 7

Copy of passport

A 4 cm. X 6 cm. Photograph

1,900 baht application fee

A certified document from the Dean of the faculty

The document must contain the following details of the Applicants:

Name, Age, Nationality, passport number

Level of education

Transcript of the applicant

Total academic years

Curriculum, and funding

In case of instructing

Immigration Form 7

Copy of passport

A 4 cm. X 6 cm. Photograph

1,900 baht application fee

The certified documents issued by the government / state organizations at Department level or equivalent which takes care of such Educational institutes or the certified documents issued by the head of government organization which is the public organization. The details in the certified document must contain the following topics:

length of teaching, position, salary rate.

Employment Contract (Job contract)

Work Permit or a document showing the acceptance of the request for working permission

when applying for further stay next year, the evidence of income tax payment (Por ngor dor 91) of the previous year is required.

In case of having dependents (husband / wife, children), the guarantee document from the applicant accompanied with evidence showing their relationship with the applicant is required. All documents in other languages must be translated into Thai and certified by the embassy or consulate of the alien(s).

The officials reserve the rights to examine or ask for additional documents if necessary.

Note

For more information, please call 0-2285-5148