The Department of Employment is seeking to extend the deadline for foreign migrant workers to register for a new work permit until mid-May.
Many workers from Myanmar are still in the process of extending their passports with the authorities and are likely to miss the Feb 13 deadline, a source said yesterday.
If registrations continue at its current pace, less than 15% of more than two million migrant workers from Myanmar who need to renew their work permit would have successfully submitted their applications, he said.
Most of these workers are still waiting to get a new passport from the Myanmar embassy in Thailand, but the queue for one is long, the source said, as those whose passports are close to expiring are also required to get a new one before they can renew their work permit.
Many migrant workers from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam are facing the same problem….
