Thailand’s Ministry of Labor has extended the deadline for Lao, Myanmar and Vietnamese workers to complete work-permit renewal requirements until March 31, 2026.
Thai Minister of Labor Treenuch Thienthong chaired a recent meeting of the Foreign Workers’ Management Policy Committee which was attended by a deputy permanent secretary of labor, the director-general of the Department of Employment, senior Labor Ministry officials, and representatives from relevant agencies.
The event approved an extension to address obstacles in the work-permit application process under the Cabinet resolution dated Nov. 11, 2025, in matters related to the submission of health insurance documents, medical checks, and payment of the work-permit fee of 900 THB (US$29).
The deadline, previously set for Feb. 24, 2026 for Lao, Myanmar and Vietnamese workers, has been extended to March 31, 2026, to prevent these workers from falling out of the system and becoming undocumented.
Treenuch said a total of 375,038 people out of 890,786 have still been unable to complete the process, so the meeting set measures to resolve pending issues in work-permit applications for foreign workers of the three nationalities. The move aimed to prevent labor shortages in the business sector and ensure production and national labor stability.
The Labor Ministry will submit the meeting’s outcome to the Cabinet for further consideration and approval, the minister noted.
She also instructed the Department of Employment to urgently draft a Labor Ministry notification on granting special permission for Lao, Myanmar and Vietnamese nationals to work in Thailand, in line with the Nov. 11, 2025 Cabinet resolution, as quickly as possible.
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