After my retirement next year, I plan to move to Thailand with my Thai wife from H.K. My wife owned a house near Bangkok. I note that there is a demand of Tutor for teaching GSCE subjects in my estate in Thailand. Therefore I plan to work as self-employed private tutor for giving private lessons. I am an engineer with university degrees but do not have teacher licence. I had experience in teaching engineering subjects in a Polytechnic as a part-time lecturer. After reading TV posters and new requirements on work permit, please advise whether my following proposed actions comply with Thai Immigration and Labour laws for living and working in Thailand.

1. To get a Non-Immigrant Category "O" Marriage Visa in H.K. Thai consulate by providing all necessary documents.

2. To enter Thailand with Non-Immigrant Category "O" Marriage Visa.

3. To apply for the 1 year extension of my non-immigrant visa category O 3 weeks before the Visa expires by providing all necessary documents.

4. To apply for work permit as self-employed private tutor and the working place is my wife’s house. According to application for work permit (for the case of without employer in P.5) as attached, please advise whether it is true that the self-employed private tutor only provides qualification i.e. relevant university degrees to teach and information on passport, health and the place to work. As stated, in case of applying for an instructor in non-academic school, the foreigner is not necessary to obtain a certificate of teaching profession.

Your advice or suggestion is much appreciated.

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Edited October 11, 201213 yr by lopburi3
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As far as I know you cannot get a work permit as a self-employed teacher. A foreigner needs to employed by a company in Thailand to qualify for a work permit.

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As far as I know you cannot get a work permit as a self-employed teacher. A foreigner needs to employed by a company in Thailand to qualify for a work permit.

The work permit law was changed in September 2011. Please check this website: http://www.thailawfo...ges-in-thailand and the attached document. The Form WP. 5 requires individuals “without an employer” to provide documents proving that they possess sufficient knowledge and experience for engaging in work, as well as either a copy of a service contract, a sale contract, or copies of documents indicating that the applicant’s employment situation requires work within the Kingdom. For private tuition, I reckon that only document for submission is the university degree because you do not know how many student(s) you can enroll for the class.

Anybody has similar experience?

According to that article it does not look too promising.

According to that article it does not look too promising.

It is probably that there is nobody to test this new requirement so far. Certainly I'll try but grateful if someone has similar situation and shares his experience . I am thinking about a similar situation that a volunteer is required to obtain a work permit to teach English to kids in a village. I believe this new requirement to cater for this sector of people like self-employed consultant, salesman, volunteers and IT expert, etc.

Since you are married to a Thai your wife could set up a sole proprietor business which you could work for and get a work permit. You would only need to have two Thai employees. One could be your wife and the other a housekeeper.

This can also be done as a partnership company with your wife.

Edited October 11, 201213 yr by ubonjoe

The work permit law was changed in September 2011. Please check this website: http://www.thailawfo...ges-in-thailand and the attached document. The Form WP. 5 requires individuals “without an employer” to provide documents proving that they possess sufficient knowledge and experience for engaging in work, as well as either a copy of a service contract, a sale contract, or copies of documents indicating that the applicant’s employment situation requires work within the Kingdom. For private tuition, I reckon that only document for submission is the university degree because you do not know how many student(s) you can enroll for the class.

Anybody has similar experience?

Thank you for the link to that blog post, but unfortunately I can make no sense of it. Work permit law? Revised regulations? WP5 (which has the title "Application for a renewal of a work permit under section 23)"?

The best thing to do, I think, would be to contact the blogger for details, or the law firm Chaninat & Leeds, of which he seems to be an employee, judging from the copyright notice at the bottom of the webpage. They are a reputable firm and surely have access to relevant texts of laws and regulations and can quote from them or, even better, give links to them. As it stands at present, that blog post is just a wild rumour of which nothing ever came, and for me incomprehensible.

The work permit law was changed in September 2011. Please check this website: http://www.thailawfo...ges-in-thailand and the attached document. The Form WP. 5 requires individuals “without an employer” to provide documents proving that they possess sufficient knowledge and experience for engaging in work, as well as either a copy of a service contract, a sale contract, or copies of documents indicating that the applicant’s employment situation requires work within the Kingdom. For private tuition, I reckon that only document for submission is the university degree because you do not know how many student(s) you can enroll for the class.

Anybody has similar experience?

Thank you for the link to that blog post, but unfortunately I can make no sense of it. Work permit law? Revised regulations? WP5 (which has the title "Application for a renewal of a work permit under section 23)"?

The best thing to do, I think, would be to contact the blogger for details, or the law firm Chaninat & Leeds, of which he seems to be an employee, judging from the copyright notice at the bottom of the webpage. They are a reputable firm and surely have access to relevant texts of laws and regulations and can quote from them or, even better, give links to them. As it stands at present, that blog post is just a wild rumour of which nothing ever came, and for me incomprehensible.

To try for a self employed WP the OP should in fact apply using form WP1, which was attached to the original post above; there is a section (3.6) listing the WP application requirements for those employed by a Natural Person, a Juristic Person and when applying without an employer.

Edited October 11, 201213 yr by digitalchromakey

The work permit law was changed in September 2011. Please check this website: http://www.thailawfo...ges-in-thailand and the attached document. The Form WP. 5 requires individuals “without an employer” to provide documents proving that they possess sufficient knowledge and experience for engaging in work, as well as either a copy of a service contract, a sale contract, or copies of documents indicating that the applicant’s employment situation requires work within the Kingdom. For private tuition, I reckon that only document for submission is the university degree because you do not know how many student(s) you can enroll for the class.

Anybody has similar experience?

Thank you for the link to that blog post, but unfortunately I can make no sense of it. Work permit law? Revised regulations? WP5 (which has the title "Application for a renewal of a work permit under section 23)"?

The best thing to do, I think, would be to contact the blogger for details, or the law firm Chaninat & Leeds, of which he seems to be an employee, judging from the copyright notice at the bottom of the webpage. They are a reputable firm and surely have access to relevant texts of laws and regulations and can quote from them or, even better, give links to them. As it stands at present, that blog post is just a wild rumour of which nothing ever came, and for me incomprehensible.

To try for a self employed WP the OP should in fact apply using form WP1, which was attached to the original post above; there is a section (3.6) listing the WP application requirements for those employed by a Natural Person, a Juristic Person and when applying without an employer.

Yes, that's what I meant for the application for self-employed person. I 'll try this method first because it has the least cost as comparied what Ubonjoes suggested.