So I made a PDF file with the visa information discussed in the video, if you want to check it out or download it I will leave a link here: benjoewalkerblog.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/visa-mind-maps-1.pdf
Hi Ben. Thanks for all the work and in-depth look into the current Visa situation. This could be one of the most comprehensive and informative Thailand Visa videos I have seen in quite some time. Thanks and all the best in 2022.
Hi Ben, love your channel! I will be arriving in Thailand on my Irish passport. Can I extend my visa waiver for another 30 days? I am still not sure on this. Thanks in advance!
Hey, I’m pretty sure you will be able to extend once for 30 days at a immigration office in Thailand. May be worth double checking with Thai embassy in Ireland, maybe try emailing them for confirmation.
Hi Ben! Thanks for the video! In which school did you study Thai Language? Would you recommend it? We're thinking about "Mind your Language" school, also in Koh Samui. Many thanks!
Hi mate very informative, but I have a small question. If you are in Thailand with a visa exemption for 30 days , is it possible to extend this at the immigration office? Or is it strictly for the visa holders? Thanks mate
I want to get dental work done in Thailand and then get a work visa and teach after that. Can a school transfer a visitor visa to a work visa? Can I be hired from Cambodia with my FBI background check and all documents such as degree and tesol certificate?
If I get a 12 month education visa so I can do Muay Thai do I have to stay at one location the entire time or can I do my classes anywhere and any time in Thailand
Hi Ben thank you so much for the information. I thought I was allowed 45 days here in Thailand and have overstayed I just realized. Would I be able to go to the immigration office, pay my fine then apply for the visa? Or will they want me to leave immediately? Thank you!
Hi man, thank you for the compliments. I’m sorry to say I don’t know what will happen if you overstay. If you go to the immigration office and pay the fine, ask about the possibility of an extension. Also ask about the covid emergency extension, you may be able to change to that if you can not extend the tourist visa. I believe the emergency covid extension will run until January the 25th.
Hi Ben, I applied for Non Immigrants O visa mutiple entry which valid for 1 year but I can only stay in Thailand for 90 days.. Does that mean I have to do border run or visa run? What am I suppose to do? I'm confused! Please help me out! Thank you
It depends, a one year non-immigrant o visa issued in your home country would require you leave Thailand every 90 days. However if the permit of stay is based on marriage to a Thai citizen or Retirement ... ect you don't have to leave the country every 90 days, just report to a local immigration in Thailand.
If you arrive visa exempt you can extend a further 30 days once. If you come on a tourist visa you can extend a further 30 days once. To go from visa exempt onto a tourist visa you would have to leave the country.
Hi Ben! Thank you for the very informative video. After watching it I'm still a bit confused though about what are my options if I'm planning to go to Thailand to look for a teaching job there. Of course it would be preferable to get the job remotely, but from what I know, it's much easier to find a job while already living in Thailand. From what you say, in order to get a work permit I would have to already have a work visa, but I wouldn't be able to get it coming to Thailand without a job. Do you have any idea about how to go about it? In other words, what is the best option for someone who wants to go to Thailand and look for a job there? Is it even possible to do that legally?
Hi, so you have two options: 1) If you can get hired before you travel to Thailand you can apply for the non-immigrant b (working visa) at an Thai embassy office in your home country. This is often tricky, especially now, because most schools are hiring teachers in the country due to covid. 2) You could travel to Thailand on a tourist visa, look for work once in the country. Once you have found a job you would switch to a non-immigrant b (work visa)... unfortunately this process is also complicated by covid. In normal times you would leave the country, take a bus to Lao or flight to Malaysia, then apply for the working visa at a Thai embassy there. Given the disruption to international travel you can change from a tourist visa to a working visa in the country (this is not usual practice) once you have found employment your school would have to help you arrange this.
@@benjoewalker Hi, Ben: on this, though, presumably (if coming from the UK, which is where I am), one would need to get the Basic DBS (i.e. Police) check done before one went out to Thailand, right, and take it with you?
Cheers mate, considering your a teacher same as me. I am looking to apply for non b visa. What documents do I need to get ready for the visa process. I am still in UK atm.
If you want to get the visa whilst in the UK I believe you will need to have found a job at a school already, as you will need some documents from the school when applying for the visa. In terms of personal documentation what I needed was: Passport, University Degree, Police check(International child protection), TEFL certificate. I had to take the original documents and photocopies of each document to immigration, I would contact your local immigration to get a list of all the documentation they require as they do change over the years.
@@benjoewalker I'm looking at the website of the Koh Samui language school and they quote 29,900 total for 15 months including the visa application. They don't seperate the cost of the visa from the course, it's inclusive. Perhaps it's different for different schools, but all the ones I've seen including Phuket include the cost of the application.
@@Migsie73 ok but I was only talking about the visa in this video, different courses have different costs depending on what you study and for how long you study. My apologies for not stating that in the vid.
"If you are caught overstaying in Thailand you will face a fine and the probability of being detained in a Thai immigration detention center, after which you will be deported or face imprisonment in Thailand." www.thaiembassy.com/thailand-visa/visa-overstay-thailand
"The fine for overstaying is 500 Baht per day, reaching a maximum fine of 20,000 Baht (when overstaying 40 or more days). When overstaying for a significant amount of time (90 days or more days), it is a serious offense that you could face deportation and ban from entering Thailand."
Hi, can I do a 60 day tourist visa and then extend it for 30 days? or can I do my 60 day tourist visa and then leave and re-enter to get a 30 day visa free and can I do this twice?
You can get the 60day tourist visa, then extend a further 30days without leaving the country, at a immigration office in Thailand. You can only do this once under normal conditions. You could then leave and get a new tourist visa outside of Thailand and repeat I believe. However I do think there may be a limit per year on how many times you can do that.
@@benjoewalker right thanks for the reply! So this is my situation that I am struggling to figure out if I need the SINGLE entry tourist Visa or the MULTI entry tourist visa. PLEASE HELP :(((( I am travelling to Thailand on the 1st March 2022 and will be applying for a 60-day Visa single or multi??. (1st Entry). I will be leaving Thailand before the 60-day visa has finished (58th day) (28th April); due to the Thai visa law that you must leave within them 60 days, unless I can just extend and stay? If I HAVE TO LEAVE,I am due to re-enter Thailand a few days later (30th April) for a guided tour, utilising the 30-day visa. (2nd Entry) During this trip, I will be leaving Thailand on the 13th May, arriving into Laos and then Vietnam etc, doing the tour. (14 day stay up to the 13th May). I will then be arriving back in Thailand on the 6th June, into Bangkok which is where the tour finishes. (3rd Entry). I will either be transitioning through Bangkok to a different country or staying for a few days. As you can see there is a total of 3 entries into Thailand, with 2 re-entries, is this allowed? I have a feeling because I would have paid for the 60-day tourist visa prior, I will still be entitled to having two free re-entries utilising the 30-day Thai visa? Is this correct? OR can I simply get the single entry tourist visa, extend once to 30 days, then leave and come back on a second 30 day visa?
@@kallennewick1350 So you can get the single entry 60 day visa and extend it a further 30 days without leavening Thailand, meaning you can stay for a total of 90 days. I believe this extension costs around 1900 thai baht (If I remember correctly) and can be done at a local immigration office in Thailand. I have never been on the 60 day multi entry visa, but I believe you can extend it once in Thailand at a immigration office to 90 days as well, but you would have to double check that because I have never been on a multi entry tourist visa. Perhaps the multi entry visa would be best for you if you have plans to travel around Asia and want the freedom to leave and re-enter hassle free.
So I made a PDF file with the visa information discussed in the video, if you want to check it out or download it I will leave a link here: benjoewalkerblog.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/visa-mind-maps-1.pdf
Liked and subscribed! Your channel is so underrated! Full of great insights~!
Thanks for sharing, Ben. :)
Thank you so much for your kind words :)
Hi Ben. Thanks for all the work and in-depth look into the current Visa situation. This could be one of the most comprehensive and informative Thailand Visa videos I have seen in quite some time. Thanks and all the best in 2022.
Thanks for your kind words, appreciate it :) I am glad to video has proved useful.
Great video, thanks.
Hi Ben, love your channel! I will be arriving in Thailand on my Irish passport. Can I extend my visa waiver for another 30 days? I am still not sure on this. Thanks in advance!
Hey, I’m pretty sure you will be able to extend once for 30 days at a immigration office in Thailand.
May be worth double checking with Thai embassy in Ireland, maybe try emailing them for confirmation.
Hi Ben! Thanks for the video! In which school did you study Thai Language? Would you recommend it? We're thinking about "Mind your Language" school, also in Koh Samui. Many thanks!
Hey, I studied at the Samui language school, I enjoyed my classes and found the staff helpful, maybe worth checking them out :).
Cheers for the information. T
Hi mate very informative, but I have a small question.
If you are in Thailand with a visa exemption for 30 days , is it possible to extend this at the immigration office? Or is it strictly for the visa holders? Thanks mate
Yeh you should be able to extend visa exemption a further 30 days once at a immigration office.
What happened to go over the METV visa ( multiple entry turist Visa) ?
I want to get dental work done in Thailand and then get a work visa and teach after that. Can a school transfer a visitor visa to a work visa? Can I be hired from Cambodia with my FBI background check and all documents such as degree and tesol certificate?
If I get a 12 month education visa so I can do Muay Thai do I have to stay at one location the entire time or can I do my classes anywhere and any time in Thailand
Hi Ben thank you so much for the information. I thought I was allowed 45 days here in Thailand and have overstayed I just realized. Would I be able to go to the immigration office, pay my fine then apply for the visa? Or will they want me to leave immediately?
Thank you!
Hi man, thank you for the compliments. I’m sorry to say I don’t know what will happen if you overstay.
If you go to the immigration office and pay the fine, ask about the possibility of an extension. Also ask about the covid emergency extension, you may be able to change to that if you can not extend the tourist visa. I believe the emergency covid extension will run until January the 25th.
Can I get Thailand Covid visa extension (60 days) if I enter Thailand before May 24th (supposed last day for Covid visa extensions)? Thanks :)
I would contact your local immigration office, I hear they are judging it case by case.
Hi Ben, I applied for Non Immigrants O visa mutiple entry which valid for 1 year but I can only stay in Thailand for 90 days.. Does that mean I have to do border run or visa run? What am I suppose to do? I'm confused! Please help me out!
Thank you
It depends, a one year non-immigrant o visa issued in your home country would require you leave Thailand every 90 days.
However if the permit of stay is based on marriage to a Thai citizen or Retirement ... ect you don't have to leave the country every 90 days, just report to a local immigration in Thailand.
Hi Ben.... If I come on the visa exemption scheme. Can I extend my stay after 30 days ? Apply for tourist visa ? Another 30 days ?
If you arrive visa exempt you can extend a further 30 days once. If you come on a tourist visa you can extend a further 30 days once.
To go from visa exempt onto a tourist visa you would have to leave the country.
does the elite visa apply to bali also ? can you carry the same visa in thailand and bali and you are not needed a seperate one ?
I don’t know of any elite visa that would be valid for both Thailand and Bali. I only know of the elite visa for Thailand.
Hi Ben! Thank you for the very informative video. After watching it I'm still a bit confused though about what are my options if I'm planning to go to Thailand to look for a teaching job there. Of course it would be preferable to get the job remotely, but from what I know, it's much easier to find a job while already living in Thailand. From what you say, in order to get a work permit I would have to already have a work visa, but I wouldn't be able to get it coming to Thailand without a job. Do you have any idea about how to go about it? In other words, what is the best option for someone who wants to go to Thailand and look for a job there? Is it even possible to do that legally?
Hi, so you have two options:
1) If you can get hired before you travel to Thailand you can apply for the non-immigrant b (working visa) at an Thai embassy office in your home country. This is often tricky, especially now, because most schools are hiring teachers in the country due to covid.
2) You could travel to Thailand on a tourist visa, look for work once in the country. Once you have found a job you would switch to a non-immigrant b (work visa)... unfortunately this process is also complicated by covid.
In normal times you would leave the country, take a bus to Lao or flight to Malaysia, then apply for the working visa at a Thai embassy there. Given the disruption to international travel you can change from a tourist visa to a working visa in the country (this is not usual practice) once you have found employment your school would have to help you arrange this.
@@benjoewalker Hi, Ben: on this, though, presumably (if coming from the UK, which is where I am), one would need to get the Basic DBS (i.e. Police) check done before one went out to Thailand, right, and take it with you?
@@simonw2750 I would say that would be a good idea.
Cheers mate, considering your a teacher same as me. I am looking to apply for non b visa. What documents do I need to get ready for the visa process. I am still in UK atm.
If you want to get the visa whilst in the UK I believe you will need to have found a job at a school already, as you will need some documents from the school when applying for the visa.
In terms of personal documentation what I needed was: Passport, University Degree, Police check(International child protection), TEFL certificate.
I had to take the original documents and photocopies of each document to immigration, I would contact your local immigration to get a list of all the documentation they require as they do change over the years.
How did you get an education visa for 7000 Baht a year? I heard it's around 30-55k a year depending on the school.
7000 is the cost of the actual visa only. The 30-50k is the cost of a language course at a school.
@@benjoewalker I'm looking at the website of the Koh Samui language school and they quote 29,900 total for 15 months including the visa application. They don't seperate the cost of the visa from the course, it's inclusive. Perhaps it's different for different schools, but all the ones I've seen including Phuket include the cost of the application.
@@Migsie73 ok but I was only talking about the visa in this video, different courses have different costs depending on what you study and for how long you study. My apologies for not stating that in the vid.
What happens if you go there with a tourist visa and just not leave when it expires? Do they put you in jail if they catch you? 🤔
"If you are caught overstaying in Thailand you will face a fine and the probability of being detained in a Thai immigration detention center, after which you will be deported or face imprisonment in Thailand."
www.thaiembassy.com/thailand-visa/visa-overstay-thailand
"The fine for overstaying is 500 Baht per day, reaching a maximum fine of 20,000 Baht (when overstaying 40 or more days).
When overstaying for a significant amount of time (90 days or more days), it is a serious offense that you could face deportation and ban from entering Thailand."
Hi, can I do a 60 day tourist visa and then extend it for 30 days? or can I do my 60 day tourist visa and then leave and re-enter to get a 30 day visa free and can I do this twice?
You can get the 60day tourist visa, then extend a further 30days without leaving the country, at a immigration office in Thailand. You can only do this once under normal conditions.
You could then leave and get a new tourist visa outside of Thailand and repeat I believe. However I do think there may be a limit per year on how many times you can do that.
@@benjoewalker right thanks for the reply! So this is my situation that I am struggling to figure out if I need the SINGLE entry tourist Visa or the MULTI entry tourist visa.
PLEASE HELP :((((
I am travelling to Thailand on the 1st March 2022 and will be applying for a 60-day Visa single or multi??. (1st Entry).
I will be leaving Thailand before the 60-day visa has finished (58th day) (28th April); due to the Thai visa law that you must leave within them 60 days, unless I can just extend and stay?
If I HAVE TO LEAVE,I am due to re-enter Thailand a few days later (30th April) for a guided tour, utilising the 30-day visa. (2nd Entry)
During this trip, I will be leaving Thailand on the 13th May, arriving into Laos and then Vietnam etc, doing the tour. (14 day stay up to the 13th May).
I will then be arriving back in Thailand on the 6th June, into Bangkok which is where the tour finishes. (3rd Entry).
I will either be transitioning through Bangkok to a different country or staying for a few days.
As you can see there is a total of 3 entries into Thailand, with 2 re-entries, is this allowed? I have a feeling because I would have paid for the 60-day tourist visa prior, I will still be entitled to having two free re-entries utilising the 30-day Thai visa? Is this correct?
OR can I simply get the single entry tourist visa, extend once to 30 days, then leave and come back on a second 30 day visa?
@@kallennewick1350 So you can get the single entry 60 day visa and extend it a further 30 days without leavening Thailand, meaning you can stay for a total of 90 days. I believe this extension costs around 1900 thai baht (If I remember correctly) and can be done at a local immigration office in Thailand.
I have never been on the 60 day multi entry visa, but I believe you can extend it once in Thailand at a immigration office to 90 days as well, but you would have to double check that because I have never been on a multi entry tourist visa.
Perhaps the multi entry visa would be best for you if you have plans to travel around Asia and want the freedom to leave and re-enter hassle free.
I would also recommend contacting a local Thai embassy, wherever you are now, check with them :)
@@benjoewalker Thankyou so much!
Nice nft
I managed 9 minutes , I surrender ,
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