Way too expensive.

The usual price in a private school in Thailand for a one year ED visa all included is 40k Thb.

I think he meant no.

@Jim **********

When using Wise, don't do any transfer of money directly from your UK bank account to your Thai bank account . Doing that, you're wasting time and money (Shitty exchange rate + transfer fees from your UK bank).

Instead, just open a £ wallet and a Thai Baht wallet on your Wise account (easy process that takes only seconds).

Then, transfer the money needed from your UK bank to your £ wallet on wise. Your transfer will be fast (minutes sometimes) and FREE (cause Wise uses his UK branch to do it, so it's a local transaction for them).

Then, on your Wise account and every time the exchange rate is at your advantage,, you convert money from your £ wallet to your Thai Baht wallet and store there as much Thai Baht as you want.

From now on and when you need to transfer some Thai Baht to your Thai bank account, you use your Wise Thai baht wallet to do so. The transfer will be fast (minutes) and at a flat rate (30,89 Thb) regardless of the amount sent.

By doing all that, you save on time, money, exchange fees and headaches.

I did 3 ED visa in a row with the same school in Phuket (Patong) and they handled the whole procedure every time and took and kept my passport until I got my visa each time. Then later, I would go to the immigration with a school representative cause a visa is something personal and they need to actually see you for it.

So I would say yes, it's normal. Your ED visa has to go in your passport and that's the school that's handling the whole procedure with the immigration.after getting a letter from the ministry of education. So how would the school obtain your visa if they don't take your passport until it's done ?

The whole process between the school, the ministry of education and the immigration takes about 3 weeks.

I suppose you gave your passport to the school something like 3 weeks or more before your visa exemption expired, right? So IN THIS CASE, once the procedure is on track, you don't have to worry about your previous expiring date.

Don't hesitate to contact me back for more details, if needed.

@Newton *********

No, you absolutely can't work with an education visa.

My condolences for your loss.

Mark Tourism.

No, they won't.

Yes, you can and it's totally FREE.

In this case, it will be a deposit, not a transfer.

Get the first and last name of the person who wanna send the money to, the name of her bank and her bank account number.

Just whidraw the amount of money needed on your side.

Then go to any branch of her bank with the infos and just make a deposit of the cash money on her bank account, providing her first and last name and bank account number, that's it.

It takes five minutes, they make you fill up and sign a small paper (you get a receipt) with the amount, date and everything on it.

And I say it again, IT'S FREE.

Bro, SHE is not in a relationship, YOU are.

The number of guys across the planet she might be in a long distance relationship with at the same time will hurt your feelings.

I'm not saying this is necessarily the case right there (chances are very very hight though), but some are specialized in long distance relationships cause they are soooo convenient.

Indeed, long distance relationships do not involved sex, you can easily manage several at the same time, they don't keep you from doing everything else you wanna do on your side, you can entertain them for months if not years, they're easy to start and to end, the number of people you can take advantage of is unlimited, they have no disadvantage but only advantages, you can paint absolutely any picture about your life cause it's totally uncheckable and they have absolutely nothing to lose in it cause they're not investing much.

Wait until you actually make the trip, you'll have more girls to deal with than time will allow you to.

The first and last mistake you could make for this matter, is just to buy or build a house.

Rent one, that's it. It's cheaper, easier, you get a finished product so no surprises you'd be stuck with, problems free (that you couldn't solve or escape from) and you keep the freedom to leave and move on if needed.

The only thing you would really buy doing so is a ton of pending problems.:

You won't ever make any profit buying a house in case you needed to resell it (the market is not built for that since forever here).

The house will never be yours as you're a foreigner and can't own the land it would be on. If you buy it through a company, you're also fuck$ed as you won't have the upper hand (%), you'd need to have employees in that company and sustain a real activity apart from the house ownership.

The land would be at best (or worse should I say, lol) on your wife's (partner) name, which means that she can kick you out at any moment for no reason (it's her house).

If anything changes in the surroundings (new crazy neighbors, new crazy dogs or roosters moving nearby, new building or houses built around yours ruining it for ya or just the fact that you don't like the place, area or whatever anymore, you're stuck.

The only thing you would buy investing in a house is unhappiness just waiting for you.