The great benefit of these visas is every time you enter Thailand you get a 1-year visa up until the expiry date.

If you leave the country the week before the visa expires, and come back before the expiry date, you will get another one year.

To keep that expiry date in 2024, before you leave get a reentry permit.

No need to get a new visa or insurance until August 2024 when you go back to England and get another OA visa.

Once you are approved you have 3 months to pay for the visa.

After that they will accept and arrange getting the visa into your passport.

@Tse ******************

unfortunately not.

has some good information about longer term visas for Thailand.

There's a multiple martial arts based visa.

Make sure you get one that will do the visa in the province you live in!

There's plenty of visa options up in Chiang Mai, let me know if you want to know more. Brissie boy 13 years in Thailand.

Depending on your current circumstances , there are Long Term Resident visas if you qualify. They are up to 10 years.

Why check with an agent across from immigration when you were across the road from the actual people that could answer the actual question?

There are no Thai Embassies in Thailand.

Should be able to do it outside Thailand but locally in Asia. Just need paperwork from the school and money in the bank.