"From the beginning of the Nationality Verification (NV) process - in 2006 for Cambodians and Laotians and August 2009 for Myanmar/Burmese - until the end of February 2011, a total of 550,003 migrant workers from Cambodia (103,826), Lao PDR (93,429) and Myanmar/Burma (352,748) have obtained a temporary passport and permission to legally work and stay in Thailand. As of December 2010, 543,749 migrants had not yet completed the process out of a total of 932,255 eligible in February 2010. Those migrants who have not yet completed NV but wish to stay and work in Thailand were required to renew their work permits by the end of February 2011 while their NV applications continued to be processed by the authorities. 295,136 migrants succeeded in renewing their work permits by this date, indicating a high likelihood that large numbers of migrants failed to renew and thus lapsed back into irregular status. But discussions regarding the opening of a new round of registration for migrant workers have progressed, which could signal a further opportunity for unregistered migrant workers to obtain permission to stay and work in Thailand. This IOM Migrant Information Note details the latest regulations affecting migrant workers in Thailand together with the latest statistics on the work renewal and NV processes..."