@Tod ********

Great information. Thank you again for the help. I will talk with the visa person from my volunteer organization and see what she thinks. If I decide to go this route I will update the group to let you know how it works out.

*cancel my ED extension

@Tod ********

Thank you for helping me think through this. If you are right, I will add you to my list of heroes. My ED visa will run out on March 17 so I think it is worth a shot to try to cancel my ED extension on March 12 and ask them to change it to a volunteer extension. Once I cancel my ED visa I will receive a 7 day stamp saying I need to get out of Thailand, correct?

@Tod ********

I'm on an ED visa/extension right now. I have not canceled my ED visa. The last time I extended my ED visa in Section N, on Jan 27, I asked the immigration officer about changing from an ED to Volunteer visa. He brought me to another immigration officer in the same section. I showed her my foundation documents and asked about changing from an ED visa to a Volunteer visa. She told me I will need to leave Thailand to apply for a volunteer visa. I also talked with the immigration officer in another section when I changed from a TR visa to an ED visa. She told me that it is not possible to change from an ED visa to a Volunteer visa in country.

If you find out otherwise, will you please update and let us know?

I'm in the same boat, Hunter. I have talked with 2 different immigration officers at Chaeng Wattana Immigration on 2 different occasions about switching/extending to a volunteer visa and was told both times that I need to leave the country to apply for a volunteer visa.