Hey yall! I'm moving to Thailand in August on a student visa

From what I understand the visa is an initial 90 and can be extended up to a year, so I'm assuming I'd have to renew every year for the 4 years of University.

My question is, do I have to leave Thailand and go back? And is there a specific amount of time I have to stay out of Thailand between visas?

Because of money, I'd like to travel as little as possible. Is there a way to renew my visa another year, but stay in country?

I’m going to apply for a Thai non-ed visa at the embassy in Vientiane. I’m aware of the new method of submitting documents online then paying in person. Does anyone have knowledge of how long this typically takes? Website says 5-10 days but I’m hoping maybe that’s a conservative estimate. If anyone has done this recently, please let me know how long it took

dtv soft power

do soft power applicants often get rejected? if you have the 500,000 baht and a letter from the business you’ll be studying at, is there a high chance you’ll be accepted?

Please help. At New Delhi embassy I applied for DTV (soft power) with 6 month Muay Thai course. Had provided all required documents with bank balance comfortably more than required funds for past 6 months. To my surprise today I received a 3 months Non-ed single entry visa. Has anyone faced similar situation? Appreciate your help 🙏

I had an non immigrant ED visa in January 2023, which mentions the day the stamp was added and two smaller rectangular stamps, one underneath, and one on the next page mentioning the day I received it and the expiration date (3 months later). There is also a red stamp saying USED above the visa.

I left Thailand 3 weeks after receiving it and returned 8 more times since on visa exemptions. Now I want to apply for another ED visa, but I was told that I have to first cancel the ED visa that I received almost 3 years ago. Is this correct?

Updated: 9 Jul 2025

*I got APPROVED*.

Here is the timeline,

Applied: 30 Jun 2025

Requested additional Docs: 7 Jul 2025

1. Please upload bank statement showing amount of no less than 500,000 THB and please highlight the last balance.

2. Please upload all pages of your passport. (P.S - I submitted the bio data page and all pages that include the immigration stamps only)

Requested 2nd time: 8 Jul 2025

1. Please upload all pages of your passport not skipping any pages. (P.S - I wrote a cover letter that says I'm still in Jakarta and I submitted all the pages starting from page 1 to the last stamp page (page 21) including the cover of my passport)

Status changed: Pending approval on Today around 11am and got approved on around 1:30 pm

Total working day: 8 day

Thanks to everyone in this group. It was really helpful.

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Hi everyone,

Have anyone got asked the second times to upload all pages of the passport from Jakarta Embassy?

I already submitted all the passport pages that included all stamps on it but the embassy asked it again with this note:

Please upload all pages of your passport not skipping any pages.

P.S - I used to stay with Non-ED visa for 8 months.

My visa was expired on 25 Apr 2025 but I leaved the country on 20 Apr 2025 without cancelling it.

Maybe they can't find the cancellation stamp for the ED visa?

I have reqeusted the cancellation letter to the school. But they can only provide on tomorrow.

What should I do in that situration?

Should I write cover letter that I already asked for cancellation letter and I will cancel it as soon as I get back to Thailand?

Any suggestion would be really appreciated.

Just got my Canadian passport renewed from Canada consulate in BKK and delivered to me in Chiang Rai. I have the previous, now cancelled passport. Do I need to go to immigration and get the new passport updated with current stamp?

Greetings. My sister is a new fellow in Siriraj who just arrived last week (1st arrival in thailand, in Don Mueang airport). By fellow, her medical training here will last for a year.

She was about to open a bank account and upon reviewing her documents, she was told by the bank that her stamp upon entry was wrong, because it was stamped as a tourist entry, not as a non-immig ED entry, so her stamp states a date that is shorter than her visa, and should have it corrected. The international affairs office just told her to go back to the immigration office and have it corrected but didn't give her any more specific instructions. We tried going back but they wouldn't understand us, and said we cannot enter the immigration office.

Her educ visa is an e-visa because that is what they provided her upon application.

We were given a number to call but no one understands us. Would anyone happen to have an idea how we could have this resolved? We were told we have to correct it asap. Thank you very much.

Holding a non-ED student visa. If I leave Thailand without re-entry visa, my student visa got automatically canceled. So, I won't have to go immigration to officially cancel it before applying DTV.

Correct ?

Question about switching international schools while on Non-Ed student and Non-O guardian visas:

My child and I currently have a Non-ED and Non-O guardian visa, and we are on our first 1 year extension now. We are thinking of moving to a different international school in another province in Thailand for the next school year. Can I just get the documentation from the new school showing that my child has been accepted and we’ve paid the new school fees and “update” our existing visas (since the school switch would take place before the next 1 year renewal) to reflect the new school information and our new address or would we have to start over from scratch, from outside Thailand?

Thank you for any guidance you can provide.