Looking to move to Thailand in October! I have a job and the company are sorting my visa out but wanted some advice on a visa for my husband.

Is there a spouses visa at all?

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Hey everyone

I have been in Thailand for over seven and a half years working so therefore, I have been on a Non-B Work Visa the whole time.

However, I am leaving Thailand (around 23 August) but my Non-B Visa expires on 1 July so therefore I need to stay for a few weeks.

At first, I was advised that I would need to leave the country and return on a visa exempt visa and then extend for 30 days.

However, I was then advised that I could do it without leaving the county. Therefore, I went to Immigration today who said that I do not have to leave the country but that I needed a letter from the UK Embassy along with a cancellation letter from my school and then I go to immigration again and change my visa.

So, I spent the whole afternoon trying to contact the British Embassy, via email, phone and Facebook. However, very unhelpful and unclear information and on I am no further forward on that and what I need to proceed?

So, ultimately my questions are:

Do I need to leave Thailand and return? and if not

what documents do I need from my Embassy (and how do I get these?) and my school for the process and when do I need to lodge these?

For information, I hold a UK Passport.

Thanks so much

Angela

So i have already posted about my dilemma a few weeks ago. I was denied entry via Don Muang for having already 2 border crossings and 1 tourist visa this year. So i was sent back to Cambodia.

I have worked in Thailand for quite some time before and just took a year off when all the strict enforcing started (or that I was aware of as i have always been on non b work permit for last 6 years). I am not a repeat offender of border runs all my time in Thailand..just this one year i took time off thinking i was within the guidelines.

so I immediately started job hunting and got 6 places that wanted to meet me in person in Bangkok (I requested skype interviews but they want in person)...but i cant return to meet because i cant get in and i cant get in because not working (and tourist visa used up). Catch 22 where i want to work and can easily get a job but i cant meet to interview with anyone outside of Thailand.

My visa question is if I apply for a tourist visa (it is clearly to get me back in so i can interview and get back to work....i have had job offers but I must be already there to seal the deal) is it a bad idea to tell them that I do want to work and will be looking for a job.... because the TV isnt for that but there isnt any other way to get in that i know of given my situation?

Thanks for any light you can shed on this.

I have been in Thailand on an extension of stay based on retirement valid until 8th October 2019 and was recently offered a job. I took all the documents to Kuala Lumpur, and applied for and received a single entry non-B work visa on 7th June. I reentered the country at Suvarnabhumi on the same day and was told that there was a mistake and that I should have cancelled my retirement extension first. Information on Thai Visa Forum however suggests though that this is automatically cancelled when you leave the country and get another type of visa. Anyway, after a bit of discussion, the immigration officer took me aside, changed some entries in the computer system and stamped me in until 4th September on the non-B. So far, so good and I now had to wait until I could apply for the full extension.

On 19th June, I went abroad again after having obtained a single use reentry permit, again at Suvarnabhumi. On returning to Bangkok on 1st July, the immigration officer overlooked the non-B and single reentry permit and stamped me in on the retirement reentry again, until 8th October. Unfortunately, I didn't notice this until yesterday, where I had to apply for the work permit and extension. In theory, my retirement extension has been cancelled both by getting a non-B and by the original entry as a non-B on 7th June. My non-B stamp is marked as used and I'm currently stamped in as NON-RE until 8th October. Can I go to Suvarnabhumi somehow and get this changed, or do I need to go to Chaengwattana? If so, is there an immigration office this side of security? Or will I have to fly out to KL again to do another non-B? Anyone else had this experience?