How can I apply for a work visa in Thailand if I'm currently on a tourist visa?

If it’s a legit company they would organise everything for you

There’s no such thing as a 30 day tourist visa your on an exempt stamp and may not have enough time to get everything together

Yes you can change your tourist visa to a NonB visa here.

You need some documents from the company as well as some steps you have to do by your own.

1st of all you need a police clearance in Thailand so the company will give you a paper and you have to go to the main police centre in Bkk and it might take minimum of 10 to 15 days.

After that the company will get a letter from an area office and will prepare loads of other documents so then you can go to immigration to apply for non B .

Note it,if they required you degree ,you must verify and translate it to thai language as well ,after you can apply for non b visa .

But the immigration there need at least 15 spare days for the process of your non b visa so they will ask you to extend your tourist visa for one more month and you must do that.

I just recently got my non b i have changed it from tourist visa ...

A long and tiring process.

Speak with the company HR department. Contact the Immigration office in BKK to verify what documentation you require.

Gather all the documentation you have to support your application (translated if required) or arrange for it to be sent / completed (i.e Police checks from country of your citizenship if applicable) and together with the company HR representative attend Immigration in-person as you are in country.

If its a big company surely they will have people to do this for you.. if its ital-thai i know they do.

To be fair I don't visit this page often but it usually full of trolls or negative _________________. Nice to see some helpful responses. I would never post in this group. I might PM someone but this group is full of angry expats. Sorry this doesn't answer your question but love to see helpful and not toxic pieces of #$$%$.

I wonder if it's this huge project one of me Thai mates is working on now?

Good luck 🍀

Cheers 🍺

You can't apply for a work permit your company to applies for it and you need to apply for a B visa..but you personally can't apply if you are being employed by another company..but the rules are different if you start a company with 51% share Thai holder..🤔🤔

i think ”that big company knows how to do your shit”

Out of curiosity what tunnelling projects?

Can in Thailand IF they give you ALL of the required paperwork which is rather arduous compared with what neighbouring country embassies require.

Discuss with your employer. 🙄

Depends if your company can provide the large amount of paperwork required to convert inside of Thailand. 99.9% of companies cannot or will not provide everything required to do this, so basically everyone leaves Thailand to apply for the non-B visa.