Are visa agencies in Bangkok reliable for extending medical, volunteer, or student visas?

@Todd ********

Global immigration: you’re right. Thai immigration, different story: dealing with it for the last 15 years. Directly , at the source, and not through an agent. I just give you one example : for volunteer visa, Thai immigration proceeds inspections on site where you are supposed to do volunteer work. And read” this : (posted here some days ago)

“Yep I'm here on a legitimate (as in I actually volunteer with them 5 days a week) volunteer visa with a local charity. Work through an agent to help with all the paperwork, it's a pretty long process and you've got to renew in 90 day increments until the 3rd renewal when you can get a year and got to apply separately for multiple entry each time. They also go to your place of volunteering during the consideration phase to check that you actually go there when you say you do.”

When in doubt, do yourself a favor and go to the source: ask Thai Immigration. They will happily give you all the details about risks of being deported and entry banned.

@Erik ******

I am happy to volunteer I have would enjoy this. Do you have any information you can send in messenger?

@K**

right, and that all went away very quickly, the agency continued operation throughout, and is still operating today. I have not heard of anyone who got a visa/extension from them, even after this report, actually having a problem with it.

There was also no allegation at any point in that that the actual visas/extensions were fake. With any agent that is procuring visas in a dodgy manner, they may be doing this with questionable supporting documentation, but the visas themselves are coming from immigration.

@Ron ******

yeah I agree but you know what the docs are like here, prescribe you anything if you say the right thing, but I hear what your saying, I'm just extending my none o then back to the UK until things get back to normal, feeling lucky I've been here really, I feel if I went this long without seeing my boy I'd be loosing the plot now

@Ryan ************

the majority of decent agents won't even get involved with these half witted Volunteer visas due to what's involved. Only the desperate would involve themselves with a medical visa