Thank you for your advice. 🙏

Thank you for confirming this. I had/have a plan A mapped out for doing a final bounce close to expiry (as advised before) to push it to the 15 months total time on my Non Imm B Multi. My employers Lawyer (who is dealing with my WP) has just confused matters then. She was also unaware that I’m no longer eligible to renew my current Non Imm B Multi. It seems that the information here is more up to date than theirs. Thanks again for this.

Yes Robert I’m on a Non Imm B Multi. The Lawyer is in possession of all my documents and says we can ‘make marriage visa’ I remembered the advice on here and have questioned it via email (waiting for a reply).

Robert Lagas I definitely saw the document, it was given to me by my school. However, I do know international schools that have recently employed at 40k so you are probably right it was more of a guideline. But as far as everything else is concerned, the non imm b multi route was an easier and less strict route to employ cheaper less qualified teachers. Alas, no more.

The Thai government/immigration have been quite clever I think. By shutting the door on the non imm b multi route, it’s forcing employers to deal with internal immigration and therefore complying with all the requirements I mentioned earlier. The problem is some employers haven’t got a clue how to do this.

This is where the confusion starts. Thai immigration/government and the ministry of labour set out clear guidelines/criteria for the employment of teachers. Minimum wage payable, tax, acceptable qualifications. I saw one document at the start of the year that said 50k a month was the minimum for a fully qualified NES teacher. This was avoided by employee and employer alike going down the Non imm b single (then work permit) then non imm b multi where the teacher could just bounce every 90 days. An arrangement suitable to both parties if the school don’t or can’t pay and the teacher doesn’t meet the set criteria - a significant proportion of teachers in Thailand don’t..

@Robert ******

going back to visa’s, a lot of schools still think they can still hire teachers on non imm b’s (multi’s) - they can’t.. maybe that’s the reason they had a change of heart. It’s taking a long time for schools to realise this.

We still didn’t ‘got’ the work permit. Sorry the grammar is awful.

Hopefully not English.