I'm currently a teacher married to a Thai woman with a Thai baby and I am in the process of getting a non-oviso. I will say is the school should be able to help you but you will have to do most of the leg work on your own. go in person to your immigration office, hopefully with someone from your school ask them how you do it. they're the only ones who know and each city has different officials who do different things and require different "payments." they should just give you a list of what they need and if you get it you can do it.

very good question, thank you.

awesome, thanks so much. I truly appreciate your help as you gain nothing from giving it in this forum other than being a good guy. thank you

anyone heard of an "FET" form or "foreign exchange transaction" form. Do you need to show immigration one of these forms proving it came from overseas? how do you prove the money came from overseas? I was going to use Transferwise, a transfer service that is cheaper than swift because you send the money to them locally and then they send the money from their thai bank account to yours so it doesn't seem to be an international transfer. how do you prove the money came from overseas and do they ask for this.

@Joe **********

this is what I had for three years but now can't do this...

@Sigurd ********

link please?

@Raquel *******

Korean air is the only airline that I could fly with pets under the seat, fyi

@Raquel *******

avg salary here is between 1 to 2 thousand a month, and that's a good job. you'd spend 2 months pay for health certs and cargo space to bring a pet. I brought 2 pes that fit under the seat but if it needs to go under it will cost thousands.

@Raquel *******

I haven't lived in the states for a long time but a lot of the recent cases that made the news at least, the guy who got shot had a knife. maybe they shouldn't shoot people with knives, I don't know, but it happens here a lot. not as bad as the phillip8nes though where duterte is just killing anybody he thinks has drugs. the last thing I'll say about the racism though is that it's not really overt or that bad. if you're super sensitive about it, you might not want to come but if you don't mind the occasional worker who's jealous of your higher foreigner salary and then making a quip about skin color or even a long stare, then you'll be alright.

@Raquel *******

rest assured, if you attack a cop with a knife here you will get shot. happened in my province just the other day. don't try it. the LAST place you want to end up is in a Thai prison and they are super strict about drugs here. not sure what you're into but very bad idea here. just had a cousin in law get 38 years for weed. the racism I was talking about is not so much cops shooting blacks for no reason but more a quiet sense of superiority and looking down upon people with dark skin. farmers have dark skin here and being a farmer often means you're poor so they get looked down upon. this the reason skin lightener creamed is huge business here. almost the same thing as a "redneck" in the states. but you won't have businesses refusing to serve you milkshakes or bus tickets, it's not like that.