What do I need to change my retirement visa to a Non-Immigrant B visa in Thailand?

sorry about that

@J**

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too many windows open on the browser :/

@Hany *****

, I concur with Jim, the lawyer or accountant who set up your company should know what's what..

OR

Have them call the consulate and get the list told to them

We are talking about the other guy who wants a non b

@Bob *******

those are the requirements to get a VISA from a thai consulate in another country NOT for getting the visa or the yearly extension of stay from the thai immigration office.

The MFA controls all the thai consulates (which are coincidentally outside the country) and they sell visas to foreigners.

The Royal Thai Police control all the immigration offices (which are coincidentally inside the country) and they sell visas and extensions to foreigners in thailand.

Hi Todd I just doubled checked and was able to get the info on this site, when I sent the web site the link popped up, don't use link type in

@Bob *******

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office sell visas outside of thailand and have NOTHING to do at all with visas or extensions inside the country.

scroll down to visa information thailand visa information ministry of foreign

If it is a new company they will understand that there are no tax statements of the last years.

I worked here 12 years, never used an agent for myself or for any other staff member in our company, and I use the same offices as you and your known business owners. This for Work Permits and Visa's. I guess that's made me an unpaid Visa Agent.

@Robert ******

- Robert I disagree the evidence piles up every week here on this Group. Many many prople cannot do a Work Permit and B Visa without paid help. I personally know about 12 'business owners' here in Krabi that use a vsa consultant year after year - not just the first time.

The WP Application is Not Not done until the OP or his lawyer collects the stamped Successful WP.3 Application and the official Labor Ministry Transmittal form letter rewuired to be used in the B Visa Application file.

Thanks

@J**

, Would make this group useless if we all comment go to visa agent. It is not easy but all can be done your self, with some guidance and experiences from others.

@Robert ******

- The OP stated he has a lawyer - when I saw that I removed my suggestion.

Also as I understand the Group rule it is to not recommend a consultant by Name. I do not know of any prohibition about merely suggesting that a consultant is needed.

He is in the process of application of the Non Immigrant B visa. The application for the Work Permit as more times mentioned is DONE and the WP can be collected in several weeks.

Besides my info is just a description of how it usually works. The OP will have to guage where he in this process.

@Robert ******

- He says that - I think he is wrong

Your lawyer will need to collect the Labor Ministry documents and send them to you in the neighboring country

@Joe **********

please read our comments, the application of the WP is done and dusted. And this page is to give advice to help people how to get the papers, not to advice to go use expensive visa consultants. Please edit your text.

As you are currently on a One Year Extension of a Non Immigrant O Visa (oftened nicknamed 'Retirement Visa').

Under what I consider antiquated rules you must apply for a Work Permit and the B Visa (Business) using the WP.3 Work Permit Applicatiion Form. If you did not use the WP.3 Application I do not see the WP being issued until you do considering your Visa Status.

This process will require you to leave Thailand - go to another country such as Laos or Malaysia - then apply for the B Visa at a Thai Embassy/Consulate there. When you leave Thailand you go without a Reentry Permit effectively cancelling the Non O Extension of Stay. At this time you would have no active Thailand Visa status.

Some Labor Ministries require proof you exited Thailand (photos of Exit Stamps and Entrance Stamps) before they will release a WP.3 Application form stamped 'Successful Application). At the same time or a few days later the Labor Ministry will release a form letter stating that the WP.3 Application was successfully submitted. Both these documents have to be included in your B Visa Application. Some Labor Ministry offices release both documents same day - some without proof you have excited Thailand.

Note: Neither the WP and B-Visa application process nor documentation differentiates between Employee or 'owner'. You become a Shareholder and later Director.

The list of required documents for the B Visa is as mentioned available on line at the Embassy / Consulate you plan to go to.

Hany Saad - The WP and B Visa are intertwined for you because of your starting Visa Status. You can apply for the WP but it will not be issued until you get the B Visa.

Living in the land of smiles, getting official papers is not easy. Take your time and above all keep smiling. 😃

@Joe **********

I only mentioned the requirement of application of the Non Immigrant B visa at Vientiane Consulate. This because his WP is filed successfully already.

Hany Saad - I just went through this process late last year under the same Visa status as you. I am just relating what I had to do - the process and sequence I had to go through. Please just consider that maybe you don't have full 100% accurate information as to what is going on with your WP Application. It could be sitting there on the desk of an officer of the Labor Ministry waiting for documentation of the things Robert has mention and that I will post next.

Yes, but you need first the Non Immigrant B visa to collect the WP, with your Extension of Stay you won't get it.

Your Thai Business partner to be writes a letter requesting that you be hired and granted a WP.

Best is your partner to subscribe it because you still not allowed to work, without the visa and the work permit.

Out of you own comment: 4. Approval Letter from the Ministry of Labour of Thailand

NR 3 you fill in owner/share holder

Again: NR 1 is letter written by your business partner, NR 4 is the WP3 form you got from the Ministry of Labor.

NR 1 is letter written by your business partner, NR 4 is the WP 3 form from Ministry of labor

Yes, I'm not that fast. Go to this website of the consulate in Vientaine and bring all the papers listed under Non Immigrant B

Than you have to visit a Thai Embassy or a Thai Consulate to apply for the Non Immigrant B visa. These you can find abroad, where do you like to go?

You are not married?

Which Embassy do you prefer to go?

There are 4 kinds of Visa and an Extension of Stay all named retirement visa by expats. They all have different rules and regulations. It is impossible to give correct advice if the type of visa or Extension is unknown as you already found out by using google to get conflicting information.