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How should a business owner in photography create an employment contract or certificate?

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Mar 20, 2025
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Joel *******
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I'm a business owner (Photography).

Can someone give me an idea of how I should be creating a Employment contract or employment certificate?

If anyone could post theirs that got approved that would be a huge help!
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The user seeks advice on creating an employment contract or certificate necessary for their business as a photographer in Thailand. They have asked for examples of approved documents from others. The comments provide various insights, including suggestions to consider alternative documentation approaches, the importance of presenting business registration, invoices for services, and successional challenges faced by photographers regarding visa approvals.
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Olesia *********
you can provide invoices labeled as “photography consultations”, “photo edition” to your clients (you can create them now, don’t need to be the old ones if you don’t have) and apply as freelancer, not business owner necessarily
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Joseph *********
PDF Portfolio is what my web dev. Friends did and got approved
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Elin **********
Hi Joel, if you want I can send the one I made in PM, that got acceptedd
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Joel *******
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@Elin *********
 perfect
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Dany ********
Maybe try an employment contract or employment certificate for a Photo- & Video-Editor. It should state that you can work remotely.

But as a business owner you would probably also want to submit business registration documents, etc…
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Joel *******
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Did you guys run a cover letter and a employment contract? (For business owners)
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Joel *******
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Can someone show me an example. I'm asking chatgpt but i'm not liking what i'm seeing.
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Bryan ***********
@Joel ******
 here's what I used:
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Christopher ********
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Matthew *******
I suggest using other options to apply for DTV. They are starting to reject to better not risk it.
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Joel *******
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@Matthew ******
 I mean there's no real way to know that. Just like negative reviews, you're always going to hear more negative reviews in life vs. positive right?
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@Joel ******
 I was told by Singapore embassy. But risk is entirely yours. At most just wasted time and application fees could always apply again.
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@Matthew ******
 Yeah bro. I'm going to risk it for this one. I think i've done a decent job. 4-6 hours of this crap finally done. Haha. Fingers crossed.
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John **********
How can a photographer work remotely? It doesn't seem physically possible
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@John *********
 Because I photograph weddings in Australia, but I edit from overseas, do marketing, sell courses, guides, consultation calls?
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@Joel ******
 In terms of remote work, you can also say you sell stock photo/video.
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Dnatjugweme ************
I agree with John. Don't make it complicated. I'd just focus on photo editing services if I were you.
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Joel *******
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Did you guys run a cover letter and a employment contract?
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Dnatjugweme ************
@Joel ******
I did get a letter from one of my clients. Stating that I've been working for them since xxxx 100% remotely, from my home or any other convenient office location.
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John **********
@Joel ******
 then I would concentrate on that rather than the fact you are a photographer
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Joel *******
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@John *********
 Yeah I had something like this written.

Feel free to let me know what you think?

I offer many things from. Photo editing services. Consultation calls to clients. Selling print products. Marketing lessons.

Before going into my business, I clearly want to state that I will NOT be taking the business of thai people and I will not be doing any sort of freelance business in Thailand to take money away from Thai people. My clients are 90% Australian and a very small amount from the USA.

The services I offer are online editing work of other photographers wedding images (Mostly friends in my industry from Australia), consultation calls to help people improve their wedding photography business from Australia and I sell prints to my clients and their guests which is all done online.

Blah blah blah, something along those lines?
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John **********
@Joel ******
 something along those lines but I'd forget photography and friends. It's meant to be a business. I'd just go with remote editing of of images, the sale of prints from a library of existing images, and so on
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Raed ****
i have a friend got denied because he was photographer as far as i understand the the embassy had thoughts he will be working as freelance photographer with thai companies or with individuals and get paid with cash so he got rejected
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@Raed ***
 I will clearly write I will not be taking freelance jobs etc.
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Mina****
You can search for example employment contract or employment certificate in the Google or write with AI.
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