Termination Of Employment = Termination Of Visa?

[lusty]

Hello! I have resigned from my previous employer and handed back my work permit as ordered by their lawyers. However, my 1 year multiple entry NON-IMMIGRANT O visa is still valid, until 31/10. Can Immigration cancel my visa without physically having my passport with them? 0000What do I have to do now as I started another job and I'm in the process of submitting all papers for a new work permit? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

LS

[SunbeltAsia]

Hello! I have resigned from my previous employer and handed back my work permit as ordered by their lawyers. However, my 1 year multiple entry NON-IMMIGRANT O visa is still valid, until 31/10. Can Immigration cancel my visa without physically having my passport with them? 0000What do I have to do now as I started another job and I'm in the process of submitting all papers for a new work permit? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

LS

If you had a true one year multiple non immigrant O visa, then this visa is not affected by terminating your work permit. This visa was not tied to your work permit.

However if you had a extension of stay based on business with multiple entries. You had 7 days to turn in your work permit and 7 days to leave the country unless you found employment. If you submit your work permit application during this period, you do not need to leave the country.

www.lawyer.th.com

[laowai1960]

The following is my first-hand experience of the drama of changing jobs in Thailand:

“In the process of ….” is not good enough. Your new employer MUST submit an application for a work permit within 7 days of you leaving your old job. You or they will be given a receipt along the lines of “work permit application under consideration”.

You or they must then take the receipt to immigration and ask for a temporary visa extension, “Extension of stay permitted up to XXX holder must leave the kingdom within the date specified herein, offenders will be prosecuted”. Immigration normally give a 2 week extension.

A day before the two weeks expires you return to immigration and get another 2 weeks. You repeat the process until your new work permit has been issued at which time immigration will extend your visa to the date corresponding with your new work permit.

If you do not take a “work permit application under consideration” receipt to immigration within 7 days you are on OVERSTAY – a big, big problem.

Apart from a 500 baht per day fine, immigration will put a stamp in your passport saying that you must leave Thailand within 7 days. Within these 7 days you need to prove to immigration that you are a law-abiding citizen.

Depending on the procedures at your country’s embassy, you write out a statutory declaration at your country’s embassy declaring that you have no criminal record ANYWHERE in the world. Your embassy will witness and stamp the statutory declaration.

In doing this, your embassy is only certifying that you have sworn the evidence (about no criminal record), they are not certifying that the evidence is true, but this doesn’t seem to matter to Thai immigration.

You take the statutory declaration to Thai immigration and they will give you a “extension of visa under consideration” stamp for a 2 week period. In my case, I got 2 of these stamps before they finally went back to the “Extension of stay permitted up to XXX holder must leave the kingdom within the date specified herein, offenders will be prosecuted”, by which time my new work permit was ready and immigration then extended my visa for 10 months (remaining time on my new work permit).

Be careful!!!

[Maestro]

I have resigned from my previous employer and handed back my work permit as ordered by their lawyers. However, my 1 year multiple entry NON-IMMIGRANT O visa is still valid, until 31/10.

As Sunbelt says, if yours is a multiple-entry non-O visa, which for one year allows you an unlimited number of entries into Thailand and on each entry gives you 90-day permission to stay, this visa remains valid until the expiration date stamped on the visa. In this case, ignore everything loawai1960 wrote in his post. You do not have to report your loss of work permit to Immigration, but obviously you are not allowed to work at the moment until you get your new work permit. Continue to do your 90-day visa runs as necessary with your current visa.

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Maestro