Answered3 years ago

What should my friend do if her work visa agent has had her passport for over three months without approval?

Work Visa Thailand Visa Passport Issues Immigration Problems Agent Regulations Emergency Travel Documents

Diadear ******

asked Feb 22, 2024

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Hi, I need some advice. My friend have contacted to agent to apply for work visa and they took her passport since last Dec. The company she worked for tried to follow up and they always postpone the date said waiting approve visa stamp by immigration.

in this case, what can we do? It been 3 months already.......

Answer summary

A user is seeking advice about a friend's work visa application, where the agent has held the friend's passport since December without receiving visa approval. Comments suggest urgent steps such as reporting the passport as stolen to get emergency travel documents from the embassy, leaving Thailand to avoid legal troubles, and caution about the unregulated nature of visa agents in Thailand.

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Michael *******

Passport should never leave your sight - too many overstays caused by agents, schools and the like get it back asap

3 years ago

Jacob ********

Agent from what city?

HarryHappy *********

Embassy

Diadear ******

Bangkok

Bart **************

Report the passport as stolen asap and get emergency travel document from your embassy. Go back to home country to get real passport and, and restart the whole sequence.

Hope for the best with regards to the identity theft that may result. The employer should be held responsible for any damage here as they required you to hand the passport over to the criminals.

3 years ago

Brandon ************

Report the passport stolen and get emergency documents from the embassy and leave Thailand immediately, paying any overstay fee.

You can search the news for this happening many times. Agents are not regulated in Thailand so there's nothing to do about punishing them and even if you write a bad review about their agency you can be arrested and sued.

The police and immigration also won't care and won't make any exceptions. Your friend also cannot work and if they've already been working then they've been breaking the law.

3 years ago

Diadear ******

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

They do sent completed work permit to her but passport so she is confused now.

3 years ago