Our Visa Plans

Given the tightened immigration and work-permit enforcement in Thailand, we’d appreciate some real-world advice on whether our plan is feasible.

I will be entering Thailand on the Destination Thailand Visa (DTV) as a remote freelancer (foreign clients only). My wife will initially enter on a tourist visa for her to look for a part time teaching role, while she studies online for her teaching qualification. If she decides to teach locally, the plan would be for a school to sponsor her work permit. If she does not work and only studies, we would look to transfer her onto a spousal/dependent visa under my DTV.

Does this approach (tourist → either work visa or spousal/dependent) work in practice under current enforcement, or are we likely to run into problems with conversions, overstays, or visa runs?

We want to do this cleanly and legally from the start — any recent experiences would be very helpful. Thank you

If you start the first year with a Non OA visa, how easy is it to transfer the second year to a Non O visa.

Hello Folks.

After checking and backreading on the group, I'm still on the dilemma about Tourist Visa vs the STV. I know both of them are extendable. However for:

1. Tourist Visa. Just need the ASQ Booking and after 10 days, you're good to go?

1. STV requires to have a proof that after your quarantine, where are you going to stay. How is this? Does it mean before apply for STV, I should have this or I can do this while I'm on quarantine?

1. Anyone on STV here which were able to extend the visa without issue?

1. If I will get the Tourist Visa, after 60 days, I can just extend right? Because the article from Thai Embassy France says that TR cannot be extended.

Thank you! :)