How soon can I renew my retirement visa.

Was it 21 days before expire

Hi all! I'd be grateful for some urgent advice 🙌

I'll try to keep this as clear as possible:

November 2025: accepted a job as a teacher at a school in Thailand with a start date of January 2026.

December 2025: applied for and received a Thai Non-B 90 day visa by the Embassy in London.

January 2026:

- entered Thailand on Jan 1st and had the non-B visa stamped in my passport (valid for 90 days).

- started the job on January 5th. Was told by my employer that they were in the process of applying for my work permit.

- by my second week working there I had realised the job was completely not as described, management were verbally abusing me, and still no work permit (they then told me that they would wait until my probation was finished to apply for the work permit. Probation was 2 months. I knew this was illegal).

- I quit at the end of my third week there due to the lack of work permit, the not as described job, and the horrendous abuse. My resignation (with immediate effect) was followed by a week of abusive emails from management and them refusing to pay me for the time I had worked.

February 2026:

- they eventually paid me and the abuse/all contact stopped.

- I called immigration 5 times and was told each time that I was allowed to stay in Thailand until my 90 day non-B visa expired. They said it didn't matter that I wasn't working - I was still allowed to stay until the visa date in my passport.

March 2026:

I'm now a few days away from the Non-B visa expiring. I have a flight out of Thailand tomorrow. I'm very worried about the following:

1. I worked for 3 weeks without a work permit. Will I get in trouble for this tomorrow when I'm at the airport?

OR

2. My former employer did secretly have a work permit for me (without my knowledge) and I've therefore over stayed by around 60 days because I didn't leave when they cancelled it when I quit. Surely they couldn't have obtained a permit for me though without me knowing?!

Also, I plan to re-enter Thailand as a tourist 4 days after my non-B expires. I will stay for 2 weeks and then leave for good. Will I have difficulties trying to enter Thailand so soon after non-B expiring?

🙃

Would massively appreciate any help! Thank you

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Hi all,

Thinking I already know the answer but thought I'd double check with the lads,

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Question is

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My 90 day non-immigrant O retirement visa expires on Monday 19 Jan. That's the stamp date.

Day 60 since my 800k baht transfer into Kasikorn bank will be on Friday 16 Jan.

My plan is to go Friday morning to the bank with my bank book and get the necessary documents, then head straight to immigration in Chiang Mai with those and other necessary documents, etc, and apply for a 1 year extension.

If denied I will ask for an extra 7 days to sort things out. If denied the extra 7 days, I will travel to Laos via Chiang Rai on Saturday/Sunday. Come back on a visa exemption and apply again for a 1 year visa extension (or a 90 day visa if that's required first).

It's a tight window. Assuming my documents are in order, is there a reasonable chance of success? Or should I just plan to leave the country and come back and handle things with less time pressure?