Can I Apply for a Second Year Student Visa in Thailand?

Now that the O/P knows there is no rule change and it is totally up to the specific school on whether they can get a new ED visa to study longer, I think we're done.

However I will add this;

Just an additional bit of news;

This is how it works in BANGKOK

-you enroll in a school

-you pay the tuition

-you get the paperwork

-you go to a thai consulate & get the 90 day ED visa

-when that 90 days is running out you get paperwork

-you go to the immigration office and you get a 30 day extension :O

-during that 30 days you go to the MOE and get tested

-then you get paperwork from them so you can get a 60 day extension TWO more times.

FWIW: ALL extensions of stays are 1900 baht. no matter the time they're issued for.

Then you're done with beginniner & intermediate thai

IF you want to continue studying you get more paperwork from the school and the MOE, you go to a thai consulate again to get a new 90 day ED visa which you can extend for 6 months (giving you 9 months of stay out of that visa). Then you're done with thai.

Good luck to the O/P