A work permit names a company, a position and an address, and it is granted by the Department of Employment, not by the embassy that stamped your visa. Asia Relocation Thailand prepares the employer's side, then yours, and keeps permit and visa on the same calendar for as long as the job lasts.
Most people expect the work permit to follow the visa. In Thailand the order is the other way round: the Department of Employment looks at the company and the job first, and the Thai post abroad asks for the outcome of that review before it issues an employment visa. A file that starts with the passport has started at the wrong end.
The permit is also narrower than it sounds: one person, one position, one employer, one address. Every change to those facts is a change to the permit, and companies that reorganise without telling anyone discover it at renewal, which is the expensive moment.
Asia Relocation Thailand files work permits for arriving staff and for the companies that hire them, from a desk in Bangkok that deals with the offices in person. One coordinator prepares the employer's documents, aligns the visa and follows the file to its closing.
A work permit in Thailand touches the visa, the company's paperwork and sometimes the Board of Investment. Each lives on its own page.
Each step is dated in writing, and the date moves only when an office moves it.
All three run with one coordinator when a household arrives together.
Same authority, same Bangkok coordinator. What changes is what has to be proven, and by whom.
The full sequence: the Thai company's file and the position reviewed first, the visa issued abroad against that review, the permit collected after arrival.
Permit and extension of stay come due on dates the job did not choose. We renew against the permit held and align the visa side, so neither document outlives the other.
A new company is a new permit and a realigned stay. A promotion or an office move is an amendment. Both are filed before the change, because a permit that no longer matches reality is a permit at risk.
Employers promoted by the Board of Investment file their foreign staff at the centre in Bangkok where the Immigration Bureau and the Department of Employment sit together. Different documents, its own page.
The position, the company's registration and staffing, and your profile. We say whether a permit can be opened and under which channel.
Prepared with your HR contact and put to the Department of Employment. This is what the visa post abroad will ask to see with your application.
The employment category goes through the official e-Visa system with the pre-approval attached. Each post publishes its own list and lead time; we work from the one that will handle your file.
Filed and collected in Bangkok or at the provincial office, and read against the contract. Then the extension of stay is applied for against it, which is where the calendar starts.
We hold the renewal date, file amendments when the job changes, and cancel the permit properly when the assignment ends.
An HR team that has never filed a permit, facing an authority that looks at the company before the candidate. We prepare the employer's side so the first filing is the last attempt.
The assignment letter is signed and the flight is booked. What is missing is the sequence between the two, and someone in Bangkok to run it.
A dependant status does not carry a permit. A spouse with an offer needs a file of their own, and we tell the household early whether that offer is enough to open one.
Teachers are filed with a letter from the education authority and a police clearance on top of the usual set, and the school's calendar rarely waits. We work to the term date.
The office that handles a permit is the one for the place of work: Bangkok for the capital, the provincial offices for Chiang Mai, Phuket, the Eastern Seaboard and elsewhere.
In Bangkok our coordinator deals with the Department of Employment in person and follows how the requirements are applied this month, not only how they were written. Promoted companies are filed at the investment and expat services centre, where the labour and immigration authorities sit side by side.
Outside the capital the permit follows the workplace: a factory on the Eastern Seaboard, a hotel in Phuket, a school in Chiang Mai each file with their own provincial office, and practice differs between them; we confirm with that office first.
The Non-B the permit sits on, and the ED and O categories for the family arriving with you, filed from abroad through the official e-Visa system.
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