@Robert ******

- Robert I disagree the evidence piles up every week here on this Group. Many many prople cannot do a Work Permit and B Visa without paid help. I personally know about 12 'business owners' here in Krabi that use a vsa consultant year after year - not just the first time.

The WP Application is Not Not done until the OP or his lawyer collects the stamped Successful WP.3 Application and the official Labor Ministry Transmittal form letter rewuired to be used in the B Visa Application file.

@Robert ******

- The OP stated he has a lawyer - when I saw that I removed my suggestion.

Also as I understand the Group rule it is to not recommend a consultant by Name. I do not know of any prohibition about merely suggesting that a consultant is needed.

Besides my info is just a description of how it usually works. The OP will have to guage where he in this process.

@Robert ******

- He says that - I think he is wrong

Your lawyer will need to collect the Labor Ministry documents and send them to you in the neighboring country

As you are currently on a One Year Extension of a Non Immigrant O Visa (oftened nicknamed 'Retirement Visa').

Under what I consider antiquated rules you must apply for a Work Permit and the B Visa (Business) using the WP.3 Work Permit Applicatiion Form. If you did not use the WP.3 Application I do not see the WP being issued until you do considering your Visa Status.

This process will require you to leave Thailand - go to another country such as Laos or Malaysia - then apply for the B Visa at a Thai Embassy/Consulate there. When you leave Thailand you go without a Reentry Permit effectively cancelling the Non O Extension of Stay. At this time you would have no active Thailand Visa status.

Some Labor Ministries require proof you exited Thailand (photos of Exit Stamps and Entrance Stamps) before they will release a WP.3 Application form stamped 'Successful Application). At the same time or a few days later the Labor Ministry will release a form letter stating that the WP.3 Application was successfully submitted. Both these documents have to be included in your B Visa Application. Some Labor Ministry offices release both documents same day - some without proof you have excited Thailand.

Note: Neither the WP and B-Visa application process nor documentation differentiates between Employee or 'owner'. You become a Shareholder and later Director.

The list of required documents for the B Visa is as mentioned available on line at the Embassy / Consulate you plan to go to.

Hany Saad - The WP and B Visa are intertwined for you because of your starting Visa Status. You can apply for the WP but it will not be issued until you get the B Visa.

Hany Saad - I just went through this process late last year under the same Visa status as you. I am just relating what I had to do - the process and sequence I had to go through. Please just consider that maybe you don't have full 100% accurate information as to what is going on with your WP Application. It could be sitting there on the desk of an officer of the Labor Ministry waiting for documentation of the things Robert has mention and that I will post next.

Your Thai Business partner to be writes a letter requesting that you be hired and granted a WP.