1) - Employers collect migrant workers profiles into a list
    - Employers draft request to import migrant workers including demand letter and employment contract

2) - Employers submit migrant worker profile list
    - Employers submit request to import migrant workers including demand letter and employment contract

3) Department of Employment submit the migrant worker profile list, request to import migrant workers including demand letter and employment contract to the government of Myanmar (through 2 centers located in Thailand) for primary screening

4) 2 Myanmar centers in Thailand submit migrant worker profile list including demand letter and employment contract to Myanmar (3 employment centers in Kawthaung, Tachilek and Myawaddy) in order to issue temporary passport and send migrant workers back to work legally according to the MoU.

5) 3 employment centers (in Kawthaung, Tachilek and Myawaddy) inform department of employment name lists of migrant workers who will be issued temporary passport and sent back to work according to MoU

6) - Department of Employment informs employers to confirm the employment and to pick up migrant workers at 3 employment centers
    - Department of Employment informs immigration office for visa stamp and allow migrant workers to come into the country
    - Department of Employment confirm the employment with 3 employment centers

7) - Employers pick up migrant workers at 3 employment centers (in Kawthaung, Tachilek and Myawaddy)
    - Employers take migrant workers into the country through immigration

8) Immigration Officer stamp visa which allow migrant workers to stay in the country

9) Migrant workers submit request for work permit at work permit issuance center along the border

10) Work permit issuance center along the border issue work permit for migrant workers

Andy Hall, who has been working with/for migrants, says since “this process assumes that all irregular migrant workers are in Myanmar / Laos for legal re-entry process, a mass deportation apparently still seems likely — Editor