Is it legal for me to work on my Thai partner's farm during harvest season without a work permit?

@Mark *********

Snowflake?

🤣

I’m not the one trying to make everything about President Trump.

I merely said u should keep it to urself in a group about Thailand.

No one wants to hear u whine about any of that 💩, they want to enjoy Thailand and get rid of stress.

I bet ur great at parties.

If u want to obsess about things like this, u should go back/stay in Washington state.

Thai ppl don’t favor ur liberal ideals.

@Benjamin *******

there are hundreds of thousands of foreigners working here. You need to be doing skilled jobs not labor.

@Brandon ***********

so if I was a tradie can I do work around the house like changing locks , changing windows, and painting . I’m I allowed to do this type of work.

@Christian **********

nothing is the same for us lowly foreigners

@Brandon ***********

yes, but when you look at some of these other countries around the world, including the US that don’t take strict measures to maintain control of their country, you’ll see where people are coming in from other countries, such as China, Russia, or what have you and buying up property. If you look at Puerto Rico, they’ve purchased so much of Puerto Rico that actual Puerto Rican natives or even people of Puerto Rican descent can’t afford to live in Puerto Rico because they’ve driven the costs of living and the cost to purchase or rent places to live sky high and out of the reach of the average Puerto Rican native.

similar to what’s happening in Hawaii and I’m sure many other places. There are quite a few people that have decided to move out of the United States and relocate to places like Thailand or the Philippines or wherever because the cost of living has just become ridiculous in their home countries. so I get why they do what they do in Thailand. If you move to another country, you should be cognizant that you are a guest and should respect their traditions and ways of life and assimilate or move on to somewhere else. 

@Jack ***************

working in your yard isn't the same as working on a farm

@Stephen ******

How crazy is this law.

@Mem ****

the law say that he can not be a "cashier" because that is only for Thai people. The law say nothing about cooking food for her husband.

@Scott ********

#10=Frump

@Robert ******

Biden is “our” president until January.

@Wes ************

Your right, it is pitiful.

But have no fear, January isn’t too far away.

😊👍🏻

@Don *****

I did not bring up politics. Referencing a known fool who is the face of the inability to understand anecdotal evidence has as much to do with politics as fishing does to eating potatoes. "I love the uneducated"- Trump.

@Mark *********

Why r u filled with so much hate?

Let it go, u will live longer.

@Mark *********

A 'known fool' who is going to make your life miserable shortly when he goes after all the freeloaders and welfare abusers like yourself. I bet you have less than 10 Facebook friends and probably from a slum of a city.

@Kim ********

I’d just go to work no one really gives a rats ass …. I’m guilty of

@Travis *********

the punishment is hard if working without a work permit - 1 or 2 or all three of these depending on the severity : fine - prison - deportation

@Wes ************

I did it came as a tech company in the USA 😁

@Andy ***********

Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (1st Google hit)

@Nigel *************

no you didnt.

As i said, stop making shit up.

@Ralph ******

of course Royal Thai Government

@Ralph ******

immigration Investigations

@Nigel *************

if you worked "investigations" you would know at minimum, yoi would rrquite a Non-O Volunteer visa to do even unpaid work in Thailand.

@Alex *******

Nam Jai Khrup

@Willem ***

its on your own land

You won't have a problem

@Ralph ******

you are hers also

Nigel David Wells

Its a commercial activity.

So if i own a bar i am allowed to work in it? Same same.

@Nigel *************

the land ownership doesn't have anything to do with it. Nothing in the law says you can break the law if it's on your own land.

@Brandon ***********

Common sense

@Nigel *************

common sense - wonder how that would work as a defense in a Thai Court to breaking a Thai law?

@Nigel *************

funny that you think Thai law and common sense have anything to do with each other.

@Marc *******

yea like us DJ’s who’ve been playing for 10 years+ gonna stop now 😂😅

@Sly ******

what people do and what is legal are two different things.

@Olaf ******

naaah for something to be considered a JOB you gotta be paid bud

@Brandon ***********

cause it's not a job you're not getting paid🥴. They can't tell you, you cant just do work to help your wife on her property if you do it for free.

@Brandon ***********

ah yes that's true.

@Marc *******

it depends in what to be honest with you. I have met quite a lot of Thais working overseas as specialists

@Michael *******

yes I ment only specialist not easy to be found in Thailand will get easy work permit.

Not to say in Thailand are no specialists in specific jobs

@Marc *******

my friend was an american working Singapore company and they brought him here for his knowledge of soy bean production. Linkedin easy to find people now. My wife gets regular job offers through that from all over

@Michael *******

Yes a specialist. He can get his work permit. But not as ordinary soy bean factory worker

@Marc *******

Yes never said anything other than specialist, its in the regulations

@Michael *******

Yes I only underlined the word specialists😃

@Kevin *****

there needs to be a line. I mean can I cook my own food? Or is that taking work away from a Thai chef.

@Leo ******

there’s so many cases like this. So can I go to a Homepro and get a 100 baht part and fix my toilet?

@Kevin *****

can I walk? Or is that putting taxis out the job?

@Leo ******

haha yes 👍

@Marc *******

wouldn’t that simple be trade and licensing which must be everywhere right? especially when it concerns public safety. if you build a boat, it has to be sanctioned by big brother. in order to be sanctioned, it needs inspecting from these nice thai soaps over here, thus employing thai boat shops.

so yeah even bike repairs spark their ability to employ public safety arguments and deport you when you could have just employed thai shops in the first place.

*devils advocate

@Jean-Maurice *******

Yes basically it's almost in every country simular.

I cannot go to Australia and get free food and a roof over my head but I cut the yard for the family I stay with

@Tyler ******

not a hobby since I did not enjoy it. There was a lot of siezed bolts profanity and frustration and a bloody finger lol

@Leo ******

Hobby or not, it takes away labor from a Thai in a job that’s Thai only.

Of a bad neighbour saw you you’d have had big trouble.

@Robert *******

at least I know what parts went into it and all the bolts are torqued to spec. For all I know the village mechanic could have bodge the lot.

@Leo ******

Of course!

When I look at many details in our house, I must cry 🤣

It’s specially hard bc I’m Swiss. The quality and precision of Swiss products just can’t be compared.

Must live with it.

@Tyler ******

Well, I do remember the case of that one guy who built his own sailing boat back in the garden and got deported (Phuket a decade ago or so) That was also his "hobby" 😉

@Tim ********

if it's your own home then nobody can do anything as long as it's just that ,I painted the whole of my villa outside 3 years ago and my Thai wife helped me, nobody said anything to me !!

@Tim ********

I'm not a lawyer so I don't know the specifics

@Allan *******

you can get a work permit if married to a Thai, (still have to qualify under all the other requirements), doesn't mean you can just work if married to a Thai, it just drops the visa type 'B' requirement.

@Tony *******

not as easy as that. If married to a Thai and you extend your stay based on marriage then you can indeed get a work permit. Not for any of the jobs reserved for Thais though of course

If you extend your stay based on retirement then, married or not you cannot get a work permit.

@Allan *******

agree, thats part of the 'other requirements' i mentioned, the answer was more to correct Steven's comment that you can 'work' if married to a Thai.