Hmm massively subjective. Employer dependent. Loads of employers employing ‘Educators’ or T/A’s. If your competent with a TEFL and are a NES then you have every chance. A million people with degrees and their panties in a bunch will tell you differently. As far as a VISA is concerned you’d be better off trying to source an employer FIRST that will support a visa application here and get yourself in-country, a lot easier. To ‘fall back’ on teaching, get a TEFL, apply for jobs, get a visa. 👍

Also, you are eligible for a non imm b single (don’t worry about the TEFL) your main concern is:

1. Getting all the (correct) paperwork together to submit an application. At a foreign consulate.

2. Making sure that the school will assist you in applying for a work permit (possibly TWO criminal record checks required now), resident certificate, health certificate WITH drug and disease checks. (Some of the paperwork from your non imm b single will be useful here..)

3. Make sure that after gaining your non imm b SINGLE that they are prepared and willing to submit an application to (internal, not foreign consulate) immigration inclusive of a teaching licence within three months (two better) and that the are NOT expecting you to ‘bounce’ every three months on a non imm b MULTI as you CANNOT get these visas anymore and it’s very expensive and time consuming to get a new non imm b single every three months. I hope this helps.

The school have to assist. The majority of the paperwork has to come from them anyway.. the way I/we did it was to use a visa run agency that had done the run for a non b visa multiple times and knew the paperwork like the back of their hand.. you then bang the heads (so to speak) of the school and the agency together until there’s a ‘pile of papers’ good enough for an application. Worked for me.

@Tyson *******

as Robert said 40k or equivalent, you can do your homework in advance for the best exchange rate. I hope you and your family have a nice trip.

@Tyson *******

yes I would. Always pays to be prepared here.

Yeah.. just re-read it again, if the baby is going to be born in England then your going to have to jump through every hoop to register in Thailand although I’m not saying that it’s impossible.. Automatic parental rights are granted upon marriage for male foreigners marrying a Thai woman so if this is the same for the OP then it would seem the most straight forward way. However, get married because you want to and for the sake of your child, if that means that you get a life partner and a happy and well supported child then go for it. Best of luck.

@Bettina **********

it may fall down to where the baby is born then. If the baby was born in Thailand with a Thai father then regardless of marital status the baby would be Thai? Conversely if the mother is Thai and names a foreigner as the father, immigration won’t accept the fathers name on the birth certificate as enough for a visa as the mother can put anyone’s name in it. The father has to go through family court to gain parental rights OR marry the Thai woman. He then is entitled to go down the non o/yearly extension of stay route. But if it’s the mother (and obviously the parent ) then would she avoid this?

Would she not also be entitled to a non-imm o/yearly extension to stay based on being the parent of a Thai national also? I know this is a problem for the male outside of marriage as by default they don’t have any parental rights, but as the mother would she not avoid this problem? Maybe the birth location would factor in. Just throwing that out there.

I recently got two letters from Kasikorn bank after depositing funds to position myself for a one year stay based on marriage. One was just a written confirmation of the translation, stamped and dated, the other was the clearance details sent (emailed) to the clerk and also stamped, this included the source details ( they still charged me 100 THB). A problem I’ve read about here is that if you use a currency transfer account (or transfer from another Thai bank) it may not be accepted by immigration. I’ve used an intermediary/exchange account but I asked them to clearly document the GBP/THB part and received a document to prove it. I’ve also read that Bangkok Bank is the main international clearance bank for most banks and therefore all their incoming international funds show up accordingly. They also are the most accommodating when it comes to documentation. I’m using them as well as Kasikorn and hedging my bets.

Sadly, I cannot renew due to recent changes, so an extra three months is welcome while I re-adjust. Thank you all for your comments.