In December, when you extend your visa, they will only extend until July 17, the end of your passport validity.

Also, travel in April (with less than 6 months validity) will be impossible unless you’re only flying home. Most

Countries won’t let you enter their country without 6+ months on your passport.

Lisa, most of the foreigners looking for teaching jobs in Thailand don’t have teaching credentials at home. Since you do, you’d be looking at a completely different set of jobs/wages.

While ajarn.com is the most popular and a very good resource site for teaching jobs, the positions you’d qualify for aren’t usually posted there. You should be looking in the 70,000-150,000 THB/month range (or maybe even higher).

Those higher paying jobs are posted on international teaching sites like tes, schrole, etc. Googling international schools will lead you to a plethora of schools, from pathetic to fantastic. Once you find the better schools among them, their websites will have job links. ISB, Harrows, Shrewsbury are a few to try.

As for your visa question, the top international schools will hire you from overseas and arrange the visa before you arrive. However, 99% of the other jobs will require you to be in the country to apply. Once hired, the visa process will either be easily transferred at immigration, in country, OR you may have to travel to an embassy in a neighboring country. Schools in Bangkok and the surrounding areas will often be able to transfer your visa in country. While outlying provinces (like Phuket) may insist the only way to do it is traveling to Laos or Malaysia. The first visa is usually 3 months, after which you will get your work permit, and then do your 1year extension to your visa, all handled through your employer… but all these steps require you to go to the respective government offices yourself.

Note: you may be asked to work while the paperwork is processed. While this puts you in a position to work illegally for the first 3 or more months, it is actually common practice for about 80% of the jobs. Once visa (at immigration) and work permit (at labor office), processes that are all the employers responsibility, you are legal and only have to worry about *making 90 day reports *ensuring you’ve bought a reentry permit before leaving the country, *keeping your job, and *timely processing of your annual visa extension.

Good luck. It’s worth it.

@Jeremy *******

fines “UP TO” 2,000B does not mean starting at 2k. It means UP TO 2K

@Tony *****

that won’t work. Money for property needs to be sent in amounts over 20k

It’s likely your embassy won’t confirm this income and therefore immigration won’t accept it. YMMV

Get a job. Or… Start a company and hire yourself.

@James ******

wow, peculiar. 14 days out of the country shows you’re not working here. Damn!

How many days did you leave Thailand for? That may be a key detail as to why

@David *******

any property includes condos, which foreigners can own. But, I’m sure you already know that. 😀

@Nongnuch *******

how is the truth racist? It’s certainly not xenophobic. It’s neither. How is it a lie?

Thai employers will not process immigration paperwork that follows the rules. Employees must work through their first months of their employment without work permits. And you think this isn’t true?

Whereas in China, the visas must be fully processed BEFORE you even enter the country to work.

How could you be so blind to reality?

And why did you turn so damn hostile? Tom foolery?