Digger Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I am always annoyed at this time of year - its the time for renewal of my work permit and B visa. After 6 years of being in Thailand, I am getting increasingly frustrated at what exactly happens during the 'under consideration' stage. As an example, for the first 3 years I worked for a company that could use the one stop centre by virtue of its capital being high and my position in that company. Everything was a piece of cake and everthing finished in 2 hours with correct documents. Since then I have been working for another smaller company so cannot use 1 stop centre. Every year, it takes 3 months to renew my visa and work permit. I am curious what they actually do in this time? does anybody actually know? Reason I ask it that all the paperwork is correct and checked on first submission, i.e company documents, audited statements, personal tax returns etc etc, yet it still takes the immigration police 3 months to then approve it. The work permit is a virtual automatic extension of the B visa - they do there part in one hour from what I can see - basically the delay seems to be with the Immigration dept. So every 30 days at this time of year, I have to ensure my passport goes back to be re-stamped for another 30 days of being under consideration. We already pay under the table money to accelerate the process and our business is so clean its sparkles - everything we do is above board, so its not even a problem with grey areas of business activity. Just curious if everyone else has this issue or if its just me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuketsiam Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Yeah I had the same problem, using the BOI one-stop service it was breeze, new smaller company and it took 3 months each time, its just the way they do things in Thailand it seems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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