I’m on a retirement visa. Can I have a web page that teaches languages for a fee or would I need to get a different type visa.
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If you are on a retirement visa (Non-OA) in Thailand, you are not allowed to engage in any form of work, including teaching languages for a fee. Doing so could lead to deportation if reported. You would need a different visa and a work permit to legally teach, which involves specific requirements such as capital investment and hiring Thai employees.
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To do this requires a big commitment, opening a company and starting a business is a lot of work here as it is anywhere in the world. You don't need a lawyer or law firm to open it, it's pretty simple, really, but it's a commitment. There are a million websites on how to set up a Thai company, here's one of the better ones.
Yes... But with a catch 😉 you can have a website that teaches Thai for a fee and have a retirement visa.... But you can't be in Thailand because you don't have work permit 😏 see how that works? 😂 So in your situation living in Thailand the answer is no.
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The problem isn't changing visas. The problem is getting the required work permit. You'll either have to be hired by someone else, or start your own business, and that gets expensive just to meet the work permit requirements of having at least bt2million in registered capital, and hiring 4 Thai employees. For someone else to hire you to teach you must have a four year university degree. It's not easy to do.
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You may be able to obtain a work permit married to Thai.
You are on a Non OA Extension of stay based on retirement that doesn't permit work of any kind whether paid or otherwise. The clue is in "retirement".
It would be unwise to jeopardise that and in particular post your intentions on a public forum that even the IO can follow.
Work permits are issued to companies, not individuals. The company officers would then decide who to give the work permit too. Married or not married makes little difference. The application process is done by a company and their representatives, not by a Thai wife. That Thai wife may be a director of said company, but she would act as a director and not a spouse.
Actually the term "retirement" is colloquial. The visa is actually a "non-immigrant visa based on being over 50" which applies to O, OA and OX. A requirement of these visas is you have to be over 50, but as
Greir points out, there is no requirement to be retired. Many FIFO workers who live in Thailand use the non-O to stop any harassment by immigration on continually entering
Ironically "retirement" means absolutely nothing as you don't have to be retired in order to obtain the extention the Thai Immigration call retirement!