Can I apply for an ED visa while in Thailand if I need to leave on October 8th?

this is just turning in to a train wreck.

You DO NOT have time to get an ED visa inside the country on the stamp you're on.

You say you only used one of the two free entries by land this year so you can either have a service bounce you out and back

OR

You could GO to a thai consulate in a nearby country and BUY a tourist visa and then enter by LAND to get in and save that one free land entry you still have..

even if you got a tourist visa at a thai consulate, you still run a HIGH risk of getting denied entry 😮 That's because a tourist visa doesn't guarantee you get IN to thailand, only that IF they let you in you get stamped in for 60 days

@Tobias **********

Which begs the question WHAT did the school you're thinking of enrolling in tell you? 😮

As a rule you enroll, pay the tuition, the school applies for paperwork from the Ministry of Education, that takes any where from 2 to 6 weeks, THEN you can take that to the immigration office inside the country and apply for the 90 day ED Visa for 2000baht. That application goes under review for 2 weeks and then you go back to get the Non-ED visa and a new 90 day stamp inked in

SO if you actually have to leave on the 8th of Oct (which is 18 days from now) I'd say nope you can't get an ED visa inside the country.

BUT

again, TALK TO THE SCHOOL YOU'RE ENROLLING IN.. 🙂 they will know

Presumably September 8th was a typing error. It's September 20th today. 🤔

You would apply for an Ed Visa outside of Thailand