Hi Guys & Girls.

I have a Thai company cleared for importing & exporting. My Thai wife and some of the family are in it. When I import some goods can I advertise to sell them with my name down as reply to me on my company email address without a work permit in my name. Any positive answers appreciated. No I think so answers please.

Kiwi Kenny

If your name is on the advertisement, that would be fine as long as you don't answer any inquiries yourself. If you do any work, and that would include answering emails, etc, you need a work permit.

Get a work permit. Provided you have the paperwork required and the financial requirements. It's a relatively simple process. You might have to jump through a few hoops with the MoL and DBD but relatively simple.

Seems not a great idea to put your name on company ads, if you have no WP. This would not be picked up in a routine investigation but most work permit busts are the result of complaints filed by members of the public who have a grouse against the illegal foreign worker, his employer, family etc. It could be a dispute you know nothing about. Things like name cards have been used as evidence to successfully prosecute illegal workers. This doesn't seem that much different.