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As the title of this video suggests, we are posing, I get this a lot. I will be talking to people that have been working in Thailand for 10 years, 15 years, sometimes 20 years and they will be less than a year away from retiring and then they will contact us about doing their Permanent Residence. This is not optimal. If you think that at any point in your future you may want to be a PR in Thailand, be a Permanent Resident, you are going to want to deal with that early and often, for lack of a better term. You really want to get this out of the way and I think it is mostly people just don't think about it. I often times find myself saying "oh why didn't somebody do this with respect to Immigration?" Well they are not an Immigration lawyer, they are not sitting around thinking of Visas all day long. I get that and frankly I am sure that is a sublime existence to exist in because sitting around worried about Immigration policy all the time isn't exactly the most pleasant state of mind to be in. 

That stated, this is kind of a concern to me because I really don't think foreign nationals take this into account when they are sort of in the prime of their career, that their PR application will probably move quite a bit more smoothly if they are doing it presumably 5 or 10 years prior to the end of their career here in Thailand rather than waiting until the very end. There are a lot of reasons for this, most notably if you wait until you are about to retire, getting documentation associated with your work can be difficult. Also, generally speaking the Adjudicators in these cases want to see that your work is ongoing. Now that is not always the case. Again all cases differ, circumstances will vary but in my opinion it is a way better idea to be dealing with a Permanent Residence Application when you are in, for lack of a better term, the middle of your career rather than at the end of it.