manonthemon

Unfortunately the company I work for is very strict with the rules and I don't think they'd agree to paying me different salary than the one stated in the books.

But assuming they would - can I just get another one year extension in the immigration or do I have to leave, get a new non B and only than an extension?

And assuming the wouldn't - what do I do? Leave on November and apply for a new non b, this time multiple entry?

if the company goes for it, seeing as you are already on an extension of stay, all you do is extend the extension for another year, new mutiple re-entry permit in your PP, dont need to leave the country.

if they wont, come end of Nov, your extension expires, so would suspect you need to leave Thailand and get a new visa, however you might have a problem getting a mutiple entry B visa "locally" in SEA a lot of places will only hand out a single

the best way for all parties IMHO is to pay the tax and get the extension done

Well, not having to leave the country and bothering with a new visa would make me very happy in deed. The minimum salary for one year extension for my nationality is just 35.000 baht. What is the difference in taxes between 35.000 and 25.000 monthly salary?

I believe these are thresholds for a one year permit to stay extension. But getting a non B is a separate story. For example I know Americans who earn around 40k a month so they are not eligible for a one year extension, they only have a multiple entry Non B visa and have to leave the country (do a so called boarded bounce) every 90 days.

My question is if there is a minimum salary required to receive a WP and than a Non B based on that.

Anyway you will need the Non B visa before you can get a WP. So the company which will employ you have to give you all necessary documents so you can and you have to travel outside Thailand and apply for a Non Imm B visa at an Embassy or consulate.

Yes, I know that. I'm just wondering if they will be able to provide me with the paper work, namely - is 25k/month salary enough to get me a WP.

The whole situation is actually a bit more complicated. I'm already employed by this company, I earn enough to get a one year extension of stay and this is what I'm here on. I also have a WP. However the conditions of my employment are about to change in the next couple of weeks and I will be getting less money (25k) so a one year extention of stay will not be an option anymore.

My current extension is valid until late November

My WP is valid till October 2015.

My contract will be changed in the next 2-3 weeks.

Any thoughts on how I should proceed?

your current extension will be good until November

and maintaining you extension shouldnt be a problem if you or the company is prepared to pay tax on the amount stated for your nationality ie they have you on the books for say 50k/m pay the tax but in reality you are only drawing 25k in salary in practice this is very workable and in practice nothing changes

Unfortunately the company I work for is very strict with the rules and I don't think they'd agree to paying me different salary than the one stated in the books.

But assuming they would - can I just get another one year extension in the immigration or do I have to leave, get a new non B and only than an extension?

And assuming the wouldn't - what do I do? Leave on November and apply for a new non b, this time multiple entry?

I believe these are thresholds for a one year permit to stay extension. But getting a non B is a separate story. For example I know Americans who earn around 40k a month so they are not eligible for a one year extension, they only have a multiple entry Non B visa and have to leave the country (do a so called boarded bounce) every 90 days.

My question is if there is a minimum salary required to receive a WP and than a Non B based on that.

Anyway you will need the Non B visa before you can get a WP. So the company which will employ you have to give you all necessary documents so you can and you have to travel outside Thailand and apply for a Non Imm B visa at an Embassy or consulate.

Yes, I know that. I'm just wondering if they will be able to provide me with the paper work, namely - is 25k/month salary enough to get me a WP.

The whole situation is actually a bit more complicated. I'm already employed by this company, I earn enough to get a one year extension of stay and this is what I'm here on. I also have a WP. However the conditions of my employment are about to change in the next couple of weeks and I will be getting less money (25k) so a one year extention of stay will not be an option anymore.

My current extension is valid until late November

My WP is valid till October 2015.

My contract will be changed in the next 2-3 weeks.

Any thoughts on how I should proceed?

I believe these are thresholds for a one year permit to stay extension. But getting a non B is a separate story. For example I know Americans who earn around 40k a month so they are not eligible for a one year extension, they only have a multiple entry Non B visa and have to leave the country (do a so called boarded bounce) every 90 days.

My question is if there is a minimum salary required to receive a WP and than a Non B based on that.

I know there is a different minimum salary requirement for different nationalities to get a on year permit to stay based on employment.

My question is if there is a minimum salary requirement to get a Non B visa / work permit? I'm after a job that pays 25k baht a month (Not much but there are other benefits, good work hours and stuff) and I'm wondering will I be granted a WP and a visa based on that (multiple entry Non B I guess)

Thanks,

One more thing. I extended my WP already, maybe a week ago and it's valid till October 2016. And it still has the old, higher (over the required threshold) salary stamped inside. I'll sign the new contract soon. Should I bother with changing whats in my WP or maybe I can even try and get another permit to stay based on whats currently written in my WP?

cheers,

Hello,

I work in Thailand. I have a Work Permit, a Non B visa and a one year extension of stay.

Soon the conditions of my employment will change – my salary will be lower. In fact not high enough to grant me a one year extension of stay according to Thai immigration law.

My current, one year extension of stay will expire in December, I will sign a new contract with a lower salary next month.

What do have to do? Do I need to leave the country. obtain a new visa an based on that a new extension of stay requiring me to leave the country every 90 days? O can I do it without leaving the country, in my local immigration?

thanks in advance,

So no way od doing this without leaving the country?

this combined with the cost of the visa and extension makes it quite expensive. Is it really worth it?

By the way, the baby is not Thai, born in Thailand but not holding a Thai passport.

Hello,

Here's my situation.

I live and work in Thailand, have a one year extension of stay based on my Non B Visa.

I have a girlfriend, non-Thai, different nationality than me, who lives and works here and has a one year extension of stay based on her Non B Visa

We have a daughter 2 years old, holding the passport of my country. She is currently here on a overstay after she entered the country on a 30 days on arrival stamp.

Until recently we didn't worry much about visa for the baby as baby overstay wasn't (isn't?) an issue. We traveled abroad together a couple of times and never had any problems. But now we're thinking of getting a dependent visa for our daughter.

The questions:

What's the benefit and how much does it cost.

Once the baby is dependent do we need to get her a re-entry permit each time we travel abroad?

Whats the procedure of getting an extension?

Is it better if we get the dependent on the mothers extension (keeping in mind that she holds a different country's passport than the baby but her name is on the birth certificate) or on my extension as I have the same passport as the baby but I’m not sure if I'm legally the father of the baby according to Thai law ( I think, sadly, I’m not)

thanx!

How does your non Thai wife remain working when you have to leave the country. She has the correct visa and WP? You cannot become a dependent visa wise on her permission to stay?

My bad - by wife I meant long term girlfriend, just like wife but no no papers. And, yes, she works legally, but I don't think I can be her defendant if we're not officially married.

I live and work in Thailand legally, have a small family ( non Thai wife, working, a young baby).

Imagine a situation I lose or want to change my job. Work permit gone, visa gone. What then? Do I have to leave the country? What visa do I get to go back to my family?

I went through this situation a few times before. Was forced to do a number of visa runs while waiting for documents from my new employers, labour offices to process the papers, immigration to make up their minds. There is no lack of different stamps in my passport. And now, with the current crackdown on via runs, people with tourist visas not allowed into Thailand things seem to get more complicated.

Me and my girlfriends, (non Thai) stay and work in Thailand legally, few years already. We earn about 40k each, rent a house, have a pretty old, second hand car. We have a young baby too.

We work quite hard and long hours and we managed to save some money, still far from what Thai immigration or many people here consider enough to live on. Yet somehow we do and quite happily.

Still, I can easily imagine a situation, when one of us loses the job or is between jobs. Then what? No more visa runs, people with tourist visas refused entrance to the country, harshly punished overstays...things get complicated.

Obey the rules people say. I do but still don't feel secure. Go back to your country they say. Not as easy as it sounds, my girlfriend wan't get a long term european visa, at least not right away, and moving from one continent to another, leaving all our lives and friends behind is not exactly what we wish for. This is all theoretical, we are good for now, but things might go south just about anytime.

Hope it doesn't affect children under 12 or whatever the age is that they let it slip....

If you don't have / need a Visa then you cannot "Overstay".

Patrick

Officially they need a visa, in practice immigration doesn't fine kids under the age of 14. Don;'t know if this is a law or an unwritten rule. Now will they become part of the "blacklisting" thing is the question.

If a child enters Thailand other than via its Mothers' birth canal whilst here in the Country they need a Visa - there may be a silent agreement not to charge Overstay if the child does not exit in accordance with their Visa but I am not at all sure of that, rather doubt it actually.

The only situation which I know is true is that if a child is born in Thailand he / she will not be charged "Overstay" when he / she leaves for the first time - at least unless the child is older than early teens - because, obviously, the child does not have a Visa.

Patrick

Thats actually not exactly the case. Even older kids (under the age of 14 or 7 depending on the source - one is here: http://www.thaivisa.com/visa-overstay-thailand.html ), do not get charged when leaving Thailand, and this is not limited to children born in Thailand. And i still don't know if it's official or unofficial rules but it certainly is the practice, I personally know a number of parents who live and work here legally (it must be hundreds of families in all of the country) yet didn't bother with getting visas for young kids as this was never a problem - Immigration at the airports doesn't even blink an eye when they see a chid on overstay, they do however stamp the overstay in the passport. Even with that stamp though, it's was never a problem to come back - I know this from my own and other parents experience.

Now I don't want to argue if this is responsible or not, or if me and many other parents like me should have gotten visas for kids or not. All I want to know is will the new rule affect my child and if so, is there some grace period, when I can actually get my child proper paper work to avoid the ban. Before it wasn't necessary (though still might have been recommended) to go through the trouble of getting a visa for the kids. Is it now?

Hope it doesn't affect children under 12 or whatever the age is that they let it slip....

If you don't have / need a Visa then you cannot "Overstay".

Patrick

Officially they need a visa, in practice immigration doesn't fine kids under the age of 14. Don;'t know if this is a law or an unwritten rule. Now will they become part of the "blacklisting" thing is the question.

Hope it doesn't affect children under 12 or whatever the age is that they let it slip....

Thank you.

So me, beeing on a one year extention, I can get a dependant visa for my daughter right? 

And later, once she goes to school gets her  Ed visa I can get an extension as her caregiver? Sounds cool - would be nice not to be completly dependant on having a job here in Thailand as far as visas go. 

I'm wondering - what is the benefit of getting ed visas for kids if they can stay in Thailand on tourist visas, overstay and face no consequences untill they are, I believe, 12 years old?

This is what I do - my daughter, 1.5 years old, uses on arrival visa exemption stamps to enter Thailand and overstays each time. We never have any trouble when leaving or coming back. I'm on a Non B visa. 

So what is the point of going through trouble of getting visas for kids?  

Hello,

I recently bought Samsung Galaxy Note 3 phone in Europe. I'm about to bring it to Thailand.

The thing is I'm reading a lot about co called Regional Lock on these phones stopping the user from using SIM cards from outside the region where the headset as purchased.

Initially Samsung claimed that the lock can be removed just by activating the Phone with the SIM card from the region of purchase but numerous online reports claim that it isn't so.

Another option was using an App but this required rooting the device which violates the warranty (and in case of Note 3 can no't be completely undone to restore the warranty).

Theres also an option of buying a special unlocking code online for 20 or so $.

Finally Samsung claimed that a local Samsung Service should be able to turn off the lock.

My question is - did anybody here face this problem, did you have any success removing the lock using any of the above methods? Do the local samsung service shops help with that issue?

A recipie for a bloodbath...

Now let's see Thailand changing it's laws accordingly for Danish people.

Now let's see Thailand changing it's laws accordingly for all spouses, male and female, regardless of nation of origin.

What laws do you want changed?

For starter the one that makes you lose your vise when your spose dies (same case like above) or you get divorced.

My wife is not Thai (and she's not my wife )

Ok. now I get it. The embassy is asking me which pages they should keep and which to cancel and they will send me the old passport back together with the new one (I deal with them by mail). So I just have to ask them not to cancel the page with the entry stamp.

The thing is I have to return the old passport to the embassy before I get the new one and it's my embassy who asked me if I want to keep any pages form the old passport and put it in the new one. Should I ask them to move the entry stamp then?