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What are the steps to switch my daughter's student visa from a language school to an international school in Thailand?

May 22, 2025
2 days ago
Tammy ****
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Hi. We are living in Chiang Mai. My 16 year old daughter was here homeschooling and on thai language school visa since September

2024. She has now been accepted into an intl school full time starting in August. Her next 90 day extension is June 14. The new school isn’t quite ready to give her a student visa til June 16.

Do I pay and extend and then switch over? Or are there any other options? Does the present school cancel her visa or do i? When do we do this? They haven’t offered much help. Exactly what are our options?

TIA
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The user is seeking advice on managing their daughter's visa transition from a Thai language school to an international school in Chiang Mai. They need to handle the timing of extensions between the two schools, especially since the current visa extension expires on June 14 and the new school's documentation will only be ready by June 16. The comments provide a detailed approach to securing an extension based on the current school and steps for switching to the new school, including potential overstay complications.
Tod *********
well seeing as she's on an extension that's only good until June 14th and the new school isn't going to give paperwork until June 16th, you either get another 90 day extension with the place she's enrolled at now or you run on overstay for the time until you can apply for a new extension with documents from the new school. <- IF your immigration office will let her overstay until she can apply for the new extension (you'd have to go talk to them before you try to do it that way)

Your daughter isn't on ANY visa at all, and the stamp right now that lets her stay in thailand says "extension of stay permitted until" and has a date (which you say is June 14th)

I'd say get an extension with the documents from the school she's attending now, then get documents from that school stating she stops studying on xxx date, and get the new documents from the new school where she will be attending.

You go and cancel the current extension and immediately apply for a new extension with documents from the new school. All you're doing is changing from an extension based on education at a private language school to one based on education at an international school.

Shouldn't have any problem doing that "reason change" on extensions
Tammy ****
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@Tod ********
Thanks a ton!
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