Hello, my first post here. My fiance is in Bangkok and is taking the day off work today (October 23) to go to the police station a second time to hopefully get her police report. This is one of the required documents for her U.S. spousal visa. The problem is, the last time she was at the police station, the worker told her that she needs her work permit. Well she talked with her boss, and she said the work permit was "lost or thrown away." I don't think so! My fiance is sure that when her boss got her work permit done through an agent, the permit was done under the table. So she thinks that they are hiding this and won't give her the permit because it's a fake somehow.

Some other info: My fiance is a Filipino and has worked in Bangkok almost 2 years now. She is returning to the Philippines in under 2 weeks.

Is there another way to get a police report/background check? Can she get something signed by her boss saying what work she has done and for however long? Does anyone have any contacts with the police department in Bangkok that could help us out?

She especially is panicking and spent half the day crying. It is so hard for both of us. Any help at all would be so greatly appreciated! I will check this thread often and supply any more information if needed. Thank you.

Get the police report in the Phillippines, since she is going home anyway and it is her country, much

easier I would think and less stress.

Thank you for the reply.I believe she needs two police reports, one from the Philippines and one from Thailand. She needs the Thai one because she has been in the country more than 6 months.

With which visa or extension is she in country? If tourist or ED visa she can't work legally, and the matter of working should not even be brought up with the police.

Recommend she goes with an educated Thai that is able to navigate the situation and obtain the report somehow.

Edited October 22, 201411 yr by paz

She was there legally with a work visa for most of the time. But now that has expired and she is there still working with a tourist visa that runs out at the end of the month. We are just totally unsure who to talk with about it. I have a Thai friend here that can hopefully help though.

If she currently has a tourist visa in her paasport and she is working I believe she is working illegally in Thailand.

From her bosses reply I would think she no longer has a valid work permit to work in Thailand.

If the police find this out or figure this out, I think she could get arrested for working illegally.l

Your topic title and text is a bit confusing. But I think she is trying to get a police clearance certificate not get a police report.

Not sure why they would want a copy of her work permit.

See: http://www.pcscenter.sb.police.go.th/eng/

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She was there legally with a work visa for most of the time. But now that has expired and she is there still working with a tourist visa that runs out at the end of the month. We are just totally unsure who to talk with about it. I have a Thai friend here that can hopefully help though.

If she is here currently on a tourist visa, regardless of what non immigrant visa she had before, then she will be illegally working. Her boss will know this. There will be no work permit.

IMO, she needs to tread carefully with the police here while seeking documentation from them over this issue.

Yes, currently she would be considered working illegally I'm sure. She just had to do do it for a couple months saving money for our wedding before heading back to the Philippines. Prior to this she was working with a valid work visa, but it was stating that she was doing a different job then she actually did/does.

Police clearance certificate is probably the right name for what we need. I'm just used to her calling it a police report. Ubonjoe, can we buy the clearance certificate off that site and get it shipped either to the U.S. or the Philippines?

Yes, her boss knows she is working illegally, and that's why she doesn't want to put my fiance in contact with the agent. Probably no work permit even exists like you said. Maybe the agent could make something though? It's very stressful thinking of ways that she could ask the police for this, yet not blurt out anything incriminating.

They do them by mail so I would assume if it was applied for it here they would send to wherever you want if you paid for the postage.

If you look at the documents required they may also want a letter from the embassy requesting it.