What options do I have for visa extension in Thailand after my tourist visa expired?

@Jane **********

Me too. I think what could happen is a form of special extension, but you would have to pay for it. If this happens, they'll announce it sometime next month.

Quite the pickle isn't Im so close to retirementmet but yet so far lol last thing I wanna do is take my 300k bwkx when in two years it'll be in the region of 750k 🤷

@Bobby *******

my plan is to try to go another country close by and wait it out and cone back once the borders open on either a tourist visa or a new non b visa if I decide it's worth while opening my place up again but failing that I will work online as I can do that wherever until I can either get my cash back in January or If I can get by for 2 year then I'll at least double my investment and I'll be able to live comfortably out here forever especially once me and the Mrs are married and we move to the north as we plan to

Bobby Howard my non b runs out October I think that I can get a year non b again hoeevrr I don't have a business now as I own a hostel on Koh phangan with no tourists I've had to shut for now and will re opme when toursits return, I'm working online atm to get by and I have enough from my shares in the UK to live on but I'm only 37 and can't get a retirement visa and I'm not married yet either so even though I have a large amount of cash in the UK I don't physically have it here as it's in offshore bonds and my company back Manchester, although I'm thinking of just getting the year non b or the Ed visa I'm actually waiting till last minute to be honest as my girl works for a well known and reputsd visa run company so I can get things done quickly but this lockdown has took up some money I had here and I don't just have 50,000 or so in baht lying around here, I get 30,000 from home to live on as a directors loan till I can cash my shares in January and have £300,000 in the UK but its August now and not January lol

Bobby Howard I've lived here for 5 years now and tbh if it wasn't for my partner and her son id be happy to leave and already would have done, the anti farrang vibe is so true and it's gotten much more noticeable in the past two years or so since the military came and shut down all the hostels in Koh phangan, since then whenevr I leave the island and go to say bkk or what where I'm not known the hostility in general leaves a bitter taste in the mouth, every time I go to Penang to renew by the time I resch hat yai I'm like why the fuck am I coming back here of my own free will 😂😂

Anthony Jackson that sounds wise 😂😂😂

@Matt ******

For thai language school yes you have, but not for muay thai. They have a lawyer and they got all the approval, you will also have to go immigration with their lawyer to complete your visa

@Richard *****

This is not a joke

@Margaret ******

What do you want to know exactly ?

@Mark **********

how rude .only making a suggestion

@Anthony ********

stubborn. Haha. Nail on the head.

@Bobby *******

This bust was never about forged visas. They are still operational. They work from an office in BKK.

@Bobby *******

there's legal agency to handle legal visa , if u are worried then go back home

@Bobby *******

until the shake up happens it is somewhat difficult to sort out a situation that might prevent big problems unless, of course, you have a crystal ball and can foresee what needs sorting out.

@Stuart ********

. So with the possibility of border bouncing a long long way in the future, should people be looking at viable options for the so-called "new normal"? I don't know. But pinning your future for probably the next twelve months or more is praying for further amnesty extensions, it doesn't sound like a good strategy to me.

@Bo***

, I have no idea what that means.

@Bobby *******

I’m not so sure. Be it as it may I do believe that they may well extend the amnesty period because there are thousands of expats on “marriage” visas and 3 month “work” visas who would normally border bounce every 90 days but can’t. They live here. Full time and have no other option of getting an extension because they don’t have the financial option to extend for a year visa. Would they really want to eliminate all those people? Not from anything official but just a gut feeling.

@Dar***

, I wonder why they haven't been charging the typical 1,900 Baht per month? I would have gladly paid it.

@Oliver *******

non b visa? Around 30-35k all in but new visa rules have just been introduced before lock down which you can check out online or at a lawyers I have one but the new tax laws regards staff so social security are to complicated for me to explain right now as I've more pressing matters on another page winding up far Lefty's and labour voters ✌️

@Greg *******

I agree, it's pretty clear that there will be no more amnesty after Sep 26. That being said, they might introduce a temporary special extension for tourists unable to depart, but upon payment of a fee and submitting documents to prove an inability to depart.

Other countries such as Indonesia are already kicking out tourists; today is the deadline to depart for tourists stuck in that country, while Vietnam's amnesty expired July 31, although there is a way of paying and staying to remain in that country, for some visa holders, for now.