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Hello. I currently work for a teaching company and I have decided to leave the company due to man y reasons. In doing so I will be breaking my contract by leaving early. I have a work permit through this company. My question is will this affect me in the future at my new teaching job? Will I be allowed to get another work permit and will I have no troubles due to me breaking contract on his work permit. Thank you for any advice!

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I would love to give notice to my supervisor, but the company I work for is really dodgy. I know if I give notice they will just let me go and/or keep some of my pay. They have done it to others who have left ( who gave notice).  I'm thinking I should go to cancel my work permit myself before I start my new job?

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Cancelling wp is easy. I believe getting a new one as well. The least of your issues.

 

All your issues related to obtaining a new visa will become insanely complicated if you are working for a school (teaching 'company'?) and simply bail.

 

Youll need a release letter for Immigration from the school. The letter can be produced in days but usually takes up to one month. If you quit and wait for letter and that letter is dated the day you quit, that will be overstay at b500 a day. Schools usually dont know, don't care so you need give them a date. The secy often will just use the date she wrote the document. They dont care. 

 

Expect the new new non b to be a hassle. Make sure you have all your paperwork and lots of money. 

 

I think you need to cancel the non b as well before leaving or risk issues by land and possibly by air. Have a copy of the release letter and the wp form.

 

Id download photo of MOL and pretend you've been there - complaint section. If they dont pay you, go back in and tell them you've been there and they have till end of week to pay you or Monday, youre filing.

 

When will people learn - do not work for agencies!!! They all have similar issues, none if them are better options than working direct. None. Ever. No one stays but those who are wholly desperate and a tiny few that have enough over the agency where they are treated reasonably well.

 

Career wise, agencies are a total dead end and usually the unlike cream, its the biggest turds that rise to the top as head teachers.

 

My hunch is 95% do not renew. Immigration, moe, mol should kill all these shonky companies in the bath.

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13 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

You can cancel your work permit yourself by submitting this form. https://www.doe.go.th/prd/download/download_by_pool_file/11948

What is the latest: how long to leave the country after work permit cancellation: 1 day, seven days? Also, can the visa extension still be used for staying in Thailand?

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29 minutes ago, StayinThailand2much said:

What is the latest: how long to leave the country after work permit cancellation: 1 day, seven days? Also, can the visa extension still be used for staying in Thailand?

After the work permit is canceled the extension technically ends on that date.

There is no 7 days to leave the country unless an extension is applied for and fee of 1900 baht is paid.

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This is how it went for me:

 

1. Get a letter from the new employer stating your start date.

2. Get a letter from the current employer that you are leaving, saying that you no longer work there as of a given date.

3. On the date mentioned in (2) - your last day of work - go to immigration and ask for a 7-day extension of permission to stay based on the letter from your new employer.

4. Once you have the 7-day extension, go to the Labor Ministry and request a new work permit based on the new employer's paperwork.  They should give you a limited duration work permit (maybe three months).

5. Back to immigration with the work permit, so they will extend your permission to stay for the same period as the work permit.

6. Back to Labor Ministry to extend the work permit for the full length of the new contract.

7. Back to immigration to extend the permission to stay for the full length of the new contract.

 

I strongly suggest that someone from your new employer accompanies you through all of this.  I did it (and changed provinces, too), and got over all the hurdles.  But it took great perseverance on the part of the admin person from my new employer (a school).

 

Good luck to you!

 

Word to the wise: avoid "dodgy" employers.  Generally, they will win and you will lose.  IMHO.

 

 

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2 hours ago, heretostay said:

This is how it went for me:

 

1. Get a letter from the new employer stating your start date.

2. Get a letter from the current employer that you are leaving, saying that you no longer work there as of a given date.

3. On the date mentioned in (2) - your last day of work - go to immigration and ask for a 7-day extension of permission to stay based on the letter from your new employer.

4. Once you have the 7-day extension, go to the Labor Ministry and request a new work permit based on the new employer's paperwork.  They should give you a limited duration work permit (maybe three months).

5. Back to immigration with the work permit, so they will extend your permission to stay for the same period as the work permit.

6. Back to Labor Ministry to extend the work permit for the full length of the new contract.

7. Back to immigration to extend the permission to stay for the full length of the new contract.

 

I strongly suggest that someone from your new employer accompanies you through all of this.  I did it (and changed provinces, too), and got over all the hurdles.  But it took great perseverance on the part of the admin person from my new employer (a school).

 

Good luck to you!

 

Word to the wise: avoid "dodgy" employers.  Generally, they will win and you will lose.  IMHO.

 

 

Thanks. This is great advice I was looking for. Seems like a lot of work, but also necessary. I didn't know any better and signed up with a really bad agency. I'm paying for it now. Hope my new school is able to provide some assistance. Thank you again.

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