Your company would have to partner ina a Thai Registered Company, and as your employer they would have staff or an Agent begin the documentation to get you a Work Permit Application started and then you would apply for a B Visa

I believe you can get another METV and do it again. You description of your travels will show as stamps and stickers in regional countries - you didn't spend a full 7 months in Thailand. The METV in my opinion was designed for just that.

No need to be sorry.

Jimmy, Robert has spelled it out precisely what you have to do to get a One Year Extension of Stay.

But please note the Non Imm O Visa you get in Sanannakhet is for 12 months - However it only comes in 90 day increments (permission to stay)... At each 89-90 day mark you have to Exit Thailand and Reenter - do a Border Bounce. Upon Reentry you will be stamped back into Thailand for another 90 days. This is a routine event - nothing to it except the time, travel and expense of going to a neighbor country's border. And also take note - you can perform this out and back in - from 15 minutes to 30 minutes to 60 minutes - then you are back in Thailand. You do not go to the Thai Consulate in that neighbor country.

If you have booking documents for a flight out of Thailand scheduled within the proposed 30 day Extension, I don't think it will be denied. You would be scheduled to leave Thailand - so why give you a hard time over 30 days?

In the uncommon event they should deny you an Extension, I think they would do nothing but let your Visa stay run out. But if you go now - then you will know absolutely and have time to plan

I do know of two people who got an Extension on a Visa denied at Immigration. They were instead given a denial and 7 days to leave. But this is not wide spread.

Hope against hope - maybe Immigration is going to get more reasonable about the Extension of Stay - streaming lining and costs

Try Kota Bahru Malaysia - the only other Thai Consulate in the Region that has processed 12 Month Multi-Entry B Visas in recent times

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