Work Permits And Investment Visas

[Misty]

Please, can anyone help me with the following Immigration questions? (Have searched the Forum and not found this specific topic.)

Background: My husband has an investment visa and is in Thailand on a 1 year extended stay from the Immigration Dept. I am a dependent on the back of his visa, and also have a 1 year extended stay from Immigration. We’re planning to work in Thailand, by starting a company that will apply for work permits from the Labour Department.

My questions: Can we avoid the Immigration Department’s minimum salary and Thai employee requirements by keeping our extended stay permits from the investment visas? If yes, will our new work permits be linked to our current extended stay permits, or only they be granted for only 90 days at a time?

Many thanks for any help! Misty

Edited January 24, 2006 by Misty

[Indo-Siam]

Hello -

The answers to your questions are:

1) Yes

2) Yes

Cheers!

Steve Sykes

Managing Director

Indo-Siam Group

Bangkok

[Misty]

Hello -

The answers to your questions are:

1) Yes

2) Yes

Cheers!

Steve Sykes

Managing Director

Indo-Siam Group

Bangkok

Very many thanks Steve!

Just to make sure I understand, was that

"Yes, our new work permits be linked to our current extended stay permits" or "Yes, the work permits will be granted for only 90 days at a time"?

Cheers! Misty

[Sunbelt Asia]

Just to make sure I understand, was that

"Yes, our new work permits be linked to our current extended stay permits" or "Yes, the work permits will be granted for only 90 days at a time"?

Cheers! Misty

Your new work permits will be linked to your current extension of stay permits based on investment. As the criteria to obtain a work permit has no set minimum number of Thai employees, you will not need to employ any Thais to work and live legally in Thailand.

www.lawyer.th.com

[Misty]

Your new work permits will be linked to your current extension of stay permits based on investment. As the criteria to obtain a work permit has no set minimum number of Thai employees, you will not need to employ any Thais to work and live legally in Thailand.

www.lawyer.th.com

Many thanks Sunbelt Asia. In the past, I'd always heard the Thai employee/minimum salary requirements being used as a reason not to hire a foreigner. But if the foreigner already has an extended stay permit (say as a dependent on a spouse's work permit visa/extended stay) then it sounds like the company can hire the foreigner without worrying about having enough employees, or paying high enough salary! Interesting stuff.

[Sunbelt Asia]

In the past, I'd always heard the Thai employee/minimum salary requirements being used as a reason not to hire a foreigner. But if the foreigner already has an extended stay permit (say as a dependent on a spouse's work permit visa/extended stay) then it sounds like the company can hire the foreigner without worrying about having enough employees, or paying high enough salary! Interesting stuff.

This is correct. The same on an extension of stay based of support of a Thai national or education. No Thai employees are required.

www.lawyer.th.com

[we_zaa]

Umm, Sunbelt Asia gave a clearly answer better than Indo-Siam . And you should know that the law didn't enforce to have a four thai employees/minimum salary to have a work permit, four thai employees and minimum salary[bangkok = 5,430 Baht ] it will be neccesary for 1 year extension stay based on Business.

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we_zaa