Tag: People and permits

Three different roles get collapsed into one question, and that is where most of the confusion comes from. Shareholder, director, and employee attract different treatment under Thai law.

The 4 Thai staff to 1 foreign work permit ratio is applied at the counter, but we could not find it written in any law, regulation or notification, after a genuinely thorough search.

Forty occupations are closed or restricted to foreigners: 27 under absolute prohibition, and 13 conditional, split 3 needing a treaty basis, 8 conditional on skill or registration, and 2 open only to CLMV nationals under bilateral labour deals.

Two of the visas most often pitched to Singapore owners as a way to live in Thailand while running a business explicitly forbid working for a Thai company: the DTV and the Singapore passport exemption.