I have Non immigrant Volunteer O Visa valid until 2021 September. How can I get back to Thailand ? Now there is new tourist Visa coming so what’s my options??
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The user has a Non-Immigrant Volunteer O Visa that expired in September 2021 and is seeking advice on reentering Thailand given the introduction of a new tourist visa. The community discusses the importance of having a reentry permit, the necessity of a letter from the organization for which the user volunteered, and options for obtaining a new visa, including the possibility of a tourist or retirement visa.
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. If you're applying from your home country you'll probably have to apply for the OA visa, as the O retirement is generally only available in country. Most people get the O by first getting a 60 day tourist visa and converting once they get here, but as tourist visas are off the picture at the moment, you'd be better getting the OA or the O marriage
dude, this lot are a bunch of rude, arrogant pricks. Firstly, do you have a reentry permit? If not you can’t renter on that visa. If you do, contact the Thai Embassy where you are and enquire there. Don’t listen to this lot.
, without a letter from them directly, saying they still need you, you can not reenter Thailand. No letter, no entry.
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Anastasiia *****
Ask agency where you do it . Or just ask visa agency. They offer service to make it multi enter for 5k bath. Or something around 2k bath for one re enter.
To reenter you must have a letter from the legally registered organization that you are volunteering for, confirming that they still need you. You must also have gotten a reentry permit when you left Thailand, or that visa expired as soon as you crossed out of Thailand. Without having an actual work permit, that was required to even do non-paying volunteer work while you were in Thailand, it is highly unlikely you can get the needed letter that the legally registered organization still needs you, as legally you never worked for them before, or you would have the work permit.
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Yoiur option is to wait because if you have been following the situation for the last couple of months you will know the government has spun out many opyions that never materialized.
. Because volunteer visas are arranged through a foundation organisation, who have to submit details of the volunteer project. The cost of a volunteer visa is 2000 baht. People have been paying upwards of 60,000 baht as this includes the bribe to the immigration officer. The stamp is legit, the process is not. To be a volunteer a person needs a work permit. Not every "volunteer visa" holder holds a work permit.
do explain why is a volunteer visa bogus if obtained thru a visa agent. If its done by a legit agent, the visa stamp on the passport is as legit as the ones you get directly from the immigration.
in the case of visas,,,call it commission....either way cash is exchanged in order to smooth the deal....now go to bed like a good little boy or you wont get any pocket money......invoices only make bribes seem legit to those who believe authorities shouldnt do such things
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