Fair enough. I just see too many people telling others that any type of work is impossible without a degree, which is just not true.

@Mic****

I've held work permits for 4 years now without a university degree, both from the Ministry of Labor and the Board of Investment. It's perfectly legal as long as you can proof relevant work experience (I work in IT, where not having a degree is not that uncommon).

@Alex*****

What are you doing for a living back home? Unless it's something that's not not on the list of prohibited jobs for foreigners and not readily available in the local work force you'll have a tough time. Most decent schools will at least ask for a bachelor's degree nowadays.

Ah,

@Alex*****

is actually talking about a tourist visa, not the visa waiver, so the whole point is moot

@Mic****

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Sounds reasonable to me, but the lawyer my former company used for this did not present us with that option. That said, I had already arranged the job before I moved here and had all paperwork ready when I entered the country, so time was not really an issue for me.

The paperwork's not the problem, but they'll only start the conversion process if you have at least a certain amount of days left on your visa exempt entry. I did it in 2014 and can't quite remember anymore, but I think it was 21 days minimum. He'd have to be extremely lucky to enter on a 30 day visa waiver and find employment fast enough to make that cutoff.

@Andy *******

I remembered the name of the place, %26+TRAVEL+CO.,+LTD./@13.8,100.4,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xd6c34d3414ac787c!8m2!3d13.8!4d100.4

Mahatun Plaza in Ploenchit, first one on the right hand side. Can’t remember the name but I can walk past and look it for you, my office is close by.

No. I went to my embassy, got the affirmation, then had that translated and stamped at the MFA. But only the affirmation, not my passport. They did not deem the latter necessary, since the Austrian affirmation document already includes all relevant passport information, so they didn't see need to have it translated and stamped twice.

My embassy charged 1.6k for the affirmation and the translation office that also took care of going to the MFA and getting everything stamped charged another 1.9k (they took 3 days as advertised). For the translation alone they would've charged 600, but I really hate the trek out to Chaeng Wattana, so happily paid for them to do it. :)

Yes, we also saw several 1000 Baht envelops last Friday. Since we were sure that all our paperwork was in order we didn't do it, which led to them "forgetting" to process us and having us wait over 2h while other were in an out in much less time.