How does the Muay Thai visa work and is it legitimate if you don’t attend classes?

Anyone have any experience with a accredited and legit gym in BKK for visa?

Hand to hand combat chiang mai. Ask for Pang. They do the classes 2 times a week for a year.

Your payment is for them doing lots of paperwork...and setting you up and covrering you ass . Your choice not to doall the classes ? Up to u? You don't get visas unless it's a retirement visa for less than minimum 35k plus some additional costs.

You have to pay for the course/classes, it's up to you if you attend or not. If you dont attend and Immigration get wind of it then you'll most likely have you visa/extention of stay cancelled. A reputable gym probably wont even supply the paperwork for an extention of stay unless you attend classes.

Because the "guy" is greasing the wheels and getting you an illegal visa

That’s what your paying for a shoddy visa

Based on your description, it sounds like you may have been offered a fraudulently obtained visa. Call around to other gyms that are not potentially putting you at risk. Even if you do train there, if they get caught with other fraudulently obtained visas for their “students”, you could get flushed out with the others.

For a Muay Thai gym to be able to offer ED visas they need special accreditation from the Ministry of Education. Most gyms don’t have this as it’s difficult and expensive to obtain. Tiger used to offer ED visa services (you had to pre-pay for 6 months of training), but even they now say just get a tourist visa and extension and do visa runs to Penang, so I guess it’s not worth it/too much hassle even for them.

This ‘guy’ you mention sounds a bit shady, is he from a gym? Or a visa agency? In any case, if I were you I would look for an accredited gym that offers visa services plus training fees in one package. A quick Google search turned up this (in Chiang Mai, definitely more quiet than Phuket or Pattaya)

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@Sutai ************************

If you know somewhere where training is cheaper than 1k a month let me know. Almost every gym is going to cost a fair bit more a month

...oh yea, the "you just have to pay story"....

I don't who "a guy" is but if they are telling you that, then they're trying to sell you a visa gained by bribing an immigration officer to issue you a visa on false pretenses. There have been many investigations about this and problems made for people who have done this recently, and it looks like more to come.