The cabinet on Tuesday approved the Labour Ministry’s proposal to extend the verification period for the estimated 384,000 alien workers still unregistered for another 120 days.
Foreign migrant workers register in Samut Sakhon last month. The registration period has been extended until August. (File photo)
A total of 54,702 employers earlier submitted their quotas to hire 414,820 migrant workers from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos under the memorandum of understanding (MoU) Thailand had signed with these countries.
However, there are 384,534 migrant workers still awaiting the verification process, although the April 14 deadline nears. This is because the one-stop service centres set up in major cities nationwide to verify nationality documents submitted by migrant workers and issue work permits to those who pass the process can process only 500 workers a day.
The centres need another 120 days to finish the work.
During this period, unregistered migrant workers applying for the verification process will not be arrested, a cabinet spokesman said.