02101957 - Can a Farang work for his wife's company w/o a Work Permit?

[Mikkihiiri]

Recently I heard a friend of mine saying that an Immigration Officer told him that if a Farang has a Marriage VISA he can work without a Work Permit if he works for his wife's business activity or his wife's company.

Is that true?

Mikki

[ubonjoe]

That is not correct.

There is no marriage visa.

You can get a work permit and work with a non-o visa entry or an extension of stay based upon marriage to a Thai. Perhaps this is what they meant.

[stevenl]

Your skin colour (farang) has nothing to do with this.

Top work a foreigner needs a workpermit.