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End-to-end legal support for foreign professionals working in Thailand and for the Thai companies that hire th
Turnkey work-authorization package
End-to-end legal support for foreign professionals working in Thailand and for the Thai companies that hire them. We handle Non-Immigrant B visa (from Thai embassy abroad or in-country conversion), Work Permit (Baan-Suan-Bplai / DOE), 90-day reporting, TM.30 property registration, re-entry permits, one-year extensions, and BOI/IEAT fast-tracks — under one fixed-fee package with monthly compliance reminders.
Working legally in Thailand as a foreign national requires two separate but interlocking authorizations — a Non-Immigrant B visa issued by the Immigration Bureau and a Work Permit issued by the Department of Employment. Missing either one exposes the employee and the employer to fines up to THB 100,000, deportation, and a 5-year employment ban. The regulations changed materially in 2023–2025 (digital Work Permit rollout, mandatory Social Security within 30 days, TM.30 e-filing, tightened capital-to-headcount ratios), and most foreign employees discover the compliance calendar only when a document has already lapsed.
Our firm supports both sides of the transaction — the Thai company (2 million baht paid-up capital per foreign employee, 4 Thai employees per foreign work permit for regular LTD, or 1:1 for BOI-promoted companies) and the foreign professional (educational credentials, criminal-background clearance from home country, health insurance meeting the THB 400,000 minimum for long-stay visa). The package covers 12 months of compliance from the Non-B issuance date, including monthly 90-day reminders, annual extension filings, and immediate response to any change of address, job title, or salary that triggers re-registration.
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PDPA and data protection
How is Non-B different from Non-O or SMART Visa?
Non-B is for employment with a Thai company and always paired with a Work Permit. Non-O is for family (Thai spouse, Thai child, retirement), does not authorize work. SMART Visa is for high-skilled talents in 10 target industries — 4-year stay, no Work Permit required, but you must be endorsed by BOI/DEPA/NIA.
Can I convert from tourist visa (TR) to Non-B in-country?
Yes but eligibility is limited — only certain nationalities, only at Chaeng Wattana (Bangkok Immigration Division 1), and only if you have not previously overstayed. Processing 15 working days. Better to obtain Non-B from a Thai embassy abroad before entering.
What is the minimum company capital and Thai employee ratio?
Regular Thai LTD: THB 2 million paid-up per foreign Work Permit, 4 Thai employees per 1 foreigner. BOI-promoted companies: no minimum capital or ratio. Rep-Office: 2 million paid-up over 3 years, 1:1 Thai ratio.
What is the minimum salary for the foreign employee?
Depends on nationality band: USA/Canada/EU/AU/JP THB 50,000/month; Korea/Singapore/Taiwan THB 45,000; South Asia/Africa THB 25,000. Immigration cross-checks against payslip and Social Security base — undeclared salary triggers Work Permit refusal.
What happens if my Work Permit expires or I change jobs?
Work Permit is tied to one employer. Change of job requires filing a new WP.3 with the new company within 15 days; Non-B extension of stay also requires re-registration. Overstay on either side triggers fines and possible 1-year ban.
Do I need to file TM.30 every time I travel domestically?
TM.30 is a landlord's obligation to report the foreign guest within 24 hours of arrival at any address that is not the registered residence. If you go on a weekend trip and return, landlord must re-file. If you check in to a hotel, the hotel files. Missing TM.30 fines THB 800–2,000.
Is health insurance mandatory?
Not for Non-B but strongly recommended (Social Security covers only THB 30,000/incident). For O-A retirement visa and 1-year extension based on retirement, THB 400,000 minimum coverage is mandatory.
How is client data protected under PDPA?
Digital files AES-256 encrypted on Thai servers; originals in a locked safe. 7-year retention per Lawyers Council and Revenue Department. Disclosure only to DOE, Immigration, Social Security, Revenue as strictly required.
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Short answer: Visa and immigration outcomes turn on complete, internally consistent documents covering identity, accommodation, finances and the reason for staying. Requirements vary by visa category and receiving office, so confirm the current checklist with the authority before every filing.
General applicants
Employers and companies
Family cases
1. Identify the category and receiving office
Determine which category fits your case and whether it is filed at an embassy, consulate or an immigration office in Thailand.
⏱ 1 working day (estimate)
2. Verify the current checklist with the authority
Confirm the latest document list and form version directly with the receiving office, since details change.
⏱ 1-2 working days (estimate)
3. Prepare, translate and certify supporting documents
Assemble a consistent set and translate or certify foreign documents as the authority requires.
⏱ 3-10 working days (estimate)
4. File and attend any interview or inspection
Submit through the prescribed channel and be ready for factual questions or a site check.
⏱ 1-5 working days (estimate)
5. Track the result and meet post-approval duties
Follow up by reference number and comply with ongoing duties such as periodic reporting and address notification.
⏱ Varies by category and agency queue
| Criterion | Prepare alone | Our team reviews and handles it |
|---|---|---|
| Set completeness | Gaps often surface at the counter | Item-by-item check before the filing date |
| Data consistency | Hard to cross-check across many documents | Names, dates and addresses aligned across the set |
| Foreign documents | You research the certification route yourself | We map the translation and certification route |
| Post-approval duties | Reporting deadlines are easily missed | We flag recurring deadlines for you |
Our team does more than file - we pre-assess whether your set is genuinely ready. Send the details and we will review your case before submission.
All durations are working-day estimates excluding agency queues, and are not a guarantee of any authority's decision.
Sources: สำนักงานตรวจคนเข้าเมือง (Immigration Bureau) · กองสัญชาติและนิติกรณ์ กรมการกงสุล กระทรวงการต่างประเทศ · Last reviewed: 2026-08-10
Document and legalization advisers with 15+ years of practice
Before we start, we read your actual documents and confirm the legalization route matches what the receiving authority asks for. During the work we report progress, and after delivery we still answer questions about how to submit the file.
We prepare documents to the requirements of the receiving authority. Any approval decision remains at that authority's discretion.
Send your documents on LINE for a preliminary review, a recommended legalization route and a written quote.
General guidance, not a case-specific determination. Requirements change with agency notices — confirm with the receiving authority before you act.
Sources: กรมการจัดหางาน กระทรวงแรงงาน (Department of Employment) · สำนักงานตรวจคนเข้าเมือง (Thai Immigration Bureau) · กองสัญชาติและนิติกรณ์ กรมการกงสุล กระทรวงการต่างประเทศ · Last reviewed: 2026-08-04
Questions we answer most often for foreign residents: residence notification, 90-day reporting, converting to a Thai driving licence, and preparing paperwork banks accept. We separate what the law requires from what each individual office decides.
TM.30 is the notification that a foreign national is staying at an address, required under the Immigration Act B.E. 2522. The duty sits with the house master, owner or possessor of the premises, not with the foreigner personally. Hotels file automatically; for a rented condo or house the landlord files. Local immigration offices interpret the details differently, so confirm with the office covering your address.
They are separate obligations. Ninety-day reporting is the foreign national's own duty to notify immigration of their current address at set intervals during a continuous stay. TM.30 is the property side's notification that someone is staying there. Filing a 90-day report is not a visa extension and does not lengthen your permission to stay by a single day.
The law provides a fine for the person under the duty to notify. The amount applied and how it is settled is at the officer's discretion and varies by office, so we do not print a fixed figure here. In practice the more common consequence is being asked to file the missing notification first before an extension or 90-day report can be processed.
Yes, where the type of stay is one the Department of Land Transport accepts. You will generally need your passport, evidence of your address in Thailand, and a medical certificate in the accepted form. Address evidence is usually a residence certificate from your embassy or one issued by immigration. Document age rules and extra steps differ between transport offices, so call the office before travelling to file.
An IDP must be issued by the country that issued your underlying licence and is only valid alongside that original licence. Its validity is what the booklet and the issuing convention state. Long-stay residents are usually better off converting to a Thai licence, because insurers and officers verify it more easily. Check current conditions with the Department of Land Transport before deciding.
Today the standard route is certification in the issuing country, then legalisation through the Thai embassy there or that country's embassy in Thailand, then a Thai translation legalised at the Department of Consular Affairs. Thailand's Apostille Convention enters into force on 28 February 2027; until that date the embassy route still applies.
Acceptance is each bank's and each branch's policy under know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering rules. Commonly requested items are the passport, evidence of permission to stay, and proof of a Thai address; some branches also ask for an employer or embassy letter. We prepare and translate the supporting documents, but the decision to open the account rests with the bank.
Three things: the minimum cover the specific visa type requires, whether the policy names you exactly as your passport does, and whether the cover period spans the whole stay you are applying for. Some offices also want an English confirmation letter from the insurer. Always verify the requirement with the embassy or immigration office you will file with before you buy.
Yes. We maintain one schedule covering passport, visa, work permit, 90-day cycle, insurance and driving licence, and send staged reminders before each date. This addresses the most common failure we see: one expired item blocking an otherwise complete filing. Ask our staff about the monitoring service by phone, LINE or email.
The statutes set a broad framework and each office issues its own internal practice on top of it — number of copies, the format of the map to your residence, how recent a medical certificate must be. That is why we confirm the list with the office that will actually receive the filing, rather than relying on a generic checklist found online.
Sources: สำนักงานตรวจคนเข้าเมือง (Immigration Bureau) · กรมการขนส่งทางบก (Department of Land Transport) · ธนาคารแห่งประเทศไทย (Bank of Thailand) · Last reviewed: 2026-08-04
These are illustrative composites of common visa and work-permit document workflows, not individual applicant files, and not a guarantee of any embassy, immigration bureau, or labour department decision. Durations are approximate working-day ranges excluding official queues.
Illustrative scenarios, not individual client records · Last reviewed 2026-08-09
Written from real client files and grounded in the Immigration Act B.E. 2522 and the Royal Decree on Managing the Work of Foreigners B.E. 2560/2561. No fees are quoted here — ask our staff by phone, LINE or email.
No. A visa exemption entry is granted for tourism-type purposes and does not carry the right to work. Employment of a foreigner is regulated separately by the Royal Decree on the Management of Foreign Workers' Employment B.E. 2560, and the employer normally has to support a Non-Immigrant B entry before a work permit application can proceed. Ask our staff by phone, LINE or email which entry category fits your job offer.
A visa is issued abroad by a Royal Thai Embassy or Consulate and lets you request entry. Permission to stay is the stamp the Immigration officer gives you at the border, and its expiry date is the one that actually matters day to day. Many people overstay because they read the visa validity instead of the admitted-until stamp. Check both dates every time you enter.
Yes, unless you buy a re-entry permit before departure. Without it, the permission to stay ends the moment you exit, and a valid multi-entry visa is not a substitute for it. Single and multiple re-entry permits are available from Immigration and at the airport counters before check-in. Plan for this before booking any short trip out of the country.
The house master, owner or possessor of the residence — in practice your landlord, condo juristic person or hotel — must notify Immigration that a foreigner is staying there. Hotels file it automatically; private landlords often forget, and the gap surfaces later when you apply for an extension or a re-entry permit. Keep the TM.30 receipt with your passport copy set.
The 90-day report under section 37 of the Immigration Act counts continuous stay inside Thailand. Every time you leave and re-enter, the count restarts from the new entry date, so frequent travellers rarely file one. If you stay put, file within the window Immigration prints on your receipt — online, by post, by an authorised representative, or in person, depending on what your office accepts.
File it late in person at your Immigration office. Late filing is treated as a reporting offence and a fine is normally assessed at the counter; the amount and handling are set by the office, so we do not quote a figure. Bring your passport, TM.6 or arrival record if you have one, and your TM.30 receipt. Do not simply skip to the next cycle.
Typically the Thai marriage certificate and Kor Ror 2, your spouse's ID card and house registration, photographs of the couple at the residence, and financial evidence in the form Immigration accepts. Foreign-issued items — birth certificates, divorce decrees, income letters — usually need a certified translation and, depending on origin, embassy or consular legalisation before Immigration will read them.
We can authenticate your signature on a declaration as Notarial Services Attorneys registered with the Lawyers Council of Thailand, and we can certify true copies of your passport. Whether a given Immigration office accepts that declaration for a specific purpose is their decision, and some purposes require an embassy affidavit instead. Tell us the exact requirement letter you were handed so we route it correctly.
Most commonly the house registration, Thai ID card, birth or marriage certificate, company affidavit, land title and bank statements. Until 28 February 2027, when the Apostille Convention takes effect for Thailand, the standard chain is certified translation, Department of Consular Affairs legalisation, then destination-embassy legalisation if that embassy still requires it. Requirements differ per embassy, so confirm the current checklist first.
Only between Convention states, and only from 28 February 2027 for documents issued in Thailand. Even then the receiving authority can still demand a translation into its own language and its own application form. For a destination that is not a party to the Convention, nothing changes: the full consular-plus-embassy chain remains, exactly as it is today.
No, and any firm that promises approval is misleading you. The decision belongs entirely to the embassy or immigration authority. What we do is narrower and checkable: prepare accurate translations, certify signatures and copies properly, arrange consular legalisation, and check the file against the published checklist so it is not rejected for a formatting or certification defect.
An invitation written by a sponsor overseas is normally notarised in the sponsor's own country, because it is their signature being witnessed. What we handle on the Thai side is the applicant's paperwork: certified true copies of the passport and ID, translations of Thai civil records, and signature authentication on declarations the applicant signs personally in front of us.
That is set by each embassy and changes from time to time, so we do not publish a fixed number. As a working habit, request the statement close to the submission date rather than the appointment-booking date, keep the bank's stamp and signature on every page, and have the translation prepared after the final statement is issued so the figures match.
Many airlines, embassies and border authorities ask for one, and some destinations effectively require it. The usual form is a parental consent signed by the non-travelling parent with signature authentication, supported by the birth certificate and evidence of parental power. If a Thai court order governs custody, include a certified copy of that order and its translation.
Short answer: The usual triggers are funds not held for the required period, foreign documents without legalisation and Thai translation, an address that does not match the residence notification, and filing too close to expiry to fix anything. Planning the timeline is the strongest prevention.
We assess eligibility, sequence fund seasoning and foreign-document certification, and file only when the bundle is complete — speak to our advisers before you start.
Durations are working-day estimates excluding agency queues, and are not a guarantee of any authority's decision.
Sources: สำนักงานตรวจคนเข้าเมือง (Immigration Bureau, Thailand) · กองสัญชาติและนิติกรณ์ กรมการกงสุล กระทรวงการต่างประเทศ · Last reviewed: 2026-08-10
Visa and immigration outcomes turn on complete, internally consistent documents covering identity, accommodation, finances and the reason for staying. Requirements vary by visa category and receiving office, so confirm the current checklist with the authority before every filing.
Our team does more than file - we pre-assess whether your set is genuinely ready. Send the details and we will review your case before submission.
Durations are working-day estimates excluding agency queues and are not a guarantee of any decision.

Statements on this page follow the authorities below. Confirm current requirements with the authority before filing. Last reviewed 2026-07-29.
Fees are not published online — ask our team by phone, LINE or email for a scope-based quote.