Anonym deltagare 164

@Fąndn ******

it adds on to the initial 60 days, you get 90 days in total.

When you can do the extension depends on where you are.

In most immigration offices you are allowed to extend 30 days before your 60 days are up...

The exceptions that I know of is that in Bangkok, Phuket and Chiang Mai you can do it 45 days before.

In Jomtien, Koh Samui and Koh Phangan only during the last 7 days.

Here is one example... Processed in less than a week.

Closed all week as stated on their webpage.

Also, as Andi wrote already - to be an english teacher in Thailand you must have a bachelor’s degree. That is a requierment to receive a work visa (Non-Immigrant B), which is needed to get a teaching license.

You can't "go for" either work visa or educational visa.

To get a work visa (Non-Immigrant B) you need a job first and have the necassary paperwork from the employer (plus apply for a work permit once you have the visa).

For an educational visa (Non-Immigrant ED) you must be enrolled to a school/institute/university to study in Thailand and have all the requiered paperwork from the school.

I suggest that you do some more research about different Thai visas - the web page for the Thai embassy in your home country is a good place to start.

@George ******

this is how I read the post:

He applied with his mother as his sponsor.

After that, he e-mailed the embassy to ask if his financial situation could be a reason for rejection. They replied that the visa would not be approved with a sponsor.

Because of that, he contacted an agent that offered to do a new application for him, but told him that he had to wait 3 month for that.

Meanwhile he went back to Thailand, planning to apply through an agent later...

However, he never needed to use an agent. The embassy suddenly asked him to submit a new photo to his initial application and the next day it was approved (even though they had written in an e-mail that it would not be aporoved with a sponsor).

Hence his 3rd conclusion at the end.

@George ******

sponsorship has been accepted since they started with DTV.

@Maurizio **********

why would I?

As I wrote, the advise is to not apply more than 3 month before you're going to travel, so that is how I would do.

Instead, please post a link to where you have read that "you have 3 month to get inside the country after visa has been approved".

I have no problem to admit that I'm wrong, if that would be the case! 😉

Anonym deltagare 608 further down "for the entire visa process" and "will be rejected if you are outside of the NL (the country where applied)".

This is how a visa process is supposed to be done. Prior to e-visa, the embassies even had the applicants passport during the process. The order that one is supoosed to apply and stay in the country until the visa is issued didn't change just because the application can be done online.

The fact that people ignore this, forces the embassies to do more controls, asking the applicants to submit copies of all the passport pages incl. empty ones and request interviews.

It is pretty simple - apply for the visa when you have the time for the process.