Professional licences and council certificates

Your name exactly as in your passport, job title, start and end dates, full-time or part-time status, hours per week, a short list of duties, the signatory's name and position, and company contact details on letterhead. Assessors such as VETASSESS and Engineers Australia routinely reject letters that omit weekly hours or duties.

It is a letter from your professional council confirming that your registration is current and that you have no disciplinary findings. Request it from the council you are registered with — the Medical Council (tmc.or.th), Nursing Council (tnmc.or.th), Council of Engineers (coe.or.th) or Architect Council (act.or.th). Foreign regulators commonly require it to be less than three to six months old.

Typically the nursing and midwifery licence, transcripts with curriculum details and clinical hours, employment letters, a Certificate of Good Standing from the Nursing Council, language test results and a police clearance certificate. The whole set must be translated in the system the destination accepts and legalised as that regulator specifies.

Generally the degree certificate, transcript, subject syllabi, employment letters stating duties and hours, and a Competency Demonstration Report where no mutual recognition pathway applies. Documents not in English need a translation from an accepted translator, which for Australia means NAATI.

Not automatically. A licence is valid only in the jurisdiction that issued it. To practise abroad you must register with that country's regulator, which uses your Thai documents as supporting evidence and usually adds examinations, skills assessment or a period of supervised practice.

Keep the licence number, issuing professional council, scope of practice and expiry date intact, and attach a Certificate of Good Standing from the council. Receivers need confirmation the licence is currently valid, not merely that it was once issued.

Australian skills assessors require non-English documents to be accompanied by translations from a recognised translator, and for work done in Australia they generally point to NAATI-certified translators. Translations prepared in Thailand must carry the translator's certification statement, contact details and the translation office stamp. Submit colour copies of the originals alongside the translation page for page, and never omit seals or endorsements from the translated text.