Thanks Tod for your very thorough post.

@Nitsuj *******

Sorry to hear that. We have one new recruit this year that has to leave the country and come back. We are doing our best to support her. I know how difficult it can be at the best of times. I wish you the best of luck.

May I suggest something here as we have a similar situation every year with our new teachers. We want to save them the cost and hassle of having to do a visa or border run and so we bring forward their start date.

For example, someone we are recruiting is having his work permit cancelled on 31 March. Normally our contracts start 1 May which is the start of the school year. But we moved it forward for him to 31 March. That way he doesn’t have to leave the country. Obviously we are both in agreement we don’t have to pay him for April.

Can you not ask your new employer to do the same? Or ask your old employer to change the date for the end of contract so it matches the start of the new job? We’ve done that for teachers who left our school and their new school weren’t ready yet.

From what I understand, if at the end of October you still cannot fly home and you can get another embassy letter then you pay another 1,900 Baht for another 30 days, and so on until Immigration say otherwise. Good luck!

@Benjamin *****

We had some success today. As in they paid Immigration the 2,000 Baht to change the visa to Non B and have to go back in a few weeks for the results. I’m talking to Tod at the moment before I post the news.

Thanks Tod for all your hard work here cutting through the crap and misinformation. It’s really appreciated by many people. Stay safe!

It moved to the new location for just one day. They decided it was now too crowded there and so today they brought 90-day reporting back to Chaengwattana.