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With all due respect Joe, volunteers for local Thai Foundations and Associations must hold a valid work permit or they can’t extend their visas and legally work. My firm specializes in non profit law in Thailand. See my answer to the op about salary. If you are correct, i guess the hundreds of volunteer work permits my firm has processed at all the MOL branches in bkk over the last 3 years is just a figment of my imagination.

I’m sorry Ubon Joe. With all due respect, the doc you show is from a law firm and not from MOL. Every volunteer working for a local foundation or Local Association requires a work permit. Simple. If you hold a non O visa based on volunteering for a local Thai foundation or Association, immigration won’t process an extension of stay without a valid work permit. If you hold an old volunteer work permit and renew that every year, there won’t be any salary or condition. However, new volunteer work permits under local Thai foundations and Associations will have a new condition that require the volunteer to be paid expense money. To renew that volunteer work permit the expat needs to show evidence they have filed and paid personal income tax otherwise they won’t be able to renew their work permit. Only in places like Pattaya where immigration and agents are selling the volunteer visas and work permits can they avoid this rule. To the OP, ask for your friend to contact me as I can easily sort this out. You can PM me if you wish. We specialize in non profit law and have processed hundreds of volunteer work permits from 2018 till now.

You can give someone power of attorney to do so on your behalf. A lawyer would be best but it can be anyone. If it’s not a lawyer, you will have to draft the POA yourself. You need to sign the POA in front of a notary. After it’s notarized, take it to the Thai embassy to get certified and send it to your lawyer or friend in Thailand. After that, your lawyer or your friend in Thailand needs to get it certified by MOFA. Now this POA can be used for the person to make the report on your behalf. Of course if you were in Thailand, the POA would not need all this. It’s just because it’s being signed outside of Thailand. i don’t see anyone but a lawyer being able to do this for you though. By the way I am a lawyer but I don’t want to take this on for you because you would be a nightmare client so take this help as it’s your lucky day.

Why wood you not ask a doctor?

Why is it nonsense? You had 8 years to take the necessary courses. Why didn’t you do it. That’s what the waivers are for. To give teachers time to get the necessary qualifications for the teaching license. Sorry to say but you are wrong!

I’m sorry but you are dead wrong. Every night in Tree Town tons of people gather there and the restaurants serving take out also serve beer illegally. The people stand out from in droves drinking and the working girls find customers. It has become the hangout place for all. Have you ever been there? If not, you don’t know. The crowds were very high last night. About 100 people. If you don’t know don’t talk. .

I don’t live in Bangkok by the way. Also my colleague in Surin just got his first shot of AZ just like me. We both stay outside Bangkok. Anything else?

Dead because of what reason? Are you not living in Thailand now ? Why would you post in here then? Or will I be dead due to choice of vaccine. Are you one of those anti vaccine guys? You must have too much time on your hands then. Well to each their own then. Good luck

I have a colleague in Surin who will get Astra Zeneca on August 22nd and he also registered for Phizer vaccine. Stop whining and spend the same amount of time and effort in registering for the vaccine and you will find a way to get it. I did as well and it’s Astra Zeneca and I don’t live in Bangkok either but outside of Bangkok.

Interesting I am under 60 and got my 1st vaccine shot. Ooops it was Astra Zeneca. Wonder how that happened? I guess I must of paid tea money or know someone working in a hospital. Well, to answer these questions, it’s no. I was just determined to get my vaccine so I registered in as many places as I could. It was also free too. So stop your whining and complaining and think about what would happen if you put the same effort into getting your vaccine as you did complaining and posting in anonymous forums about how bad the place you live in is. If you don’t like it here, it’s an easy problem to solve. Many others have gone back home for their vaccine and you can also choose that path. However, not me. I chose to live here and now I’m doing my best to adapt to Thailand’s systems, culture, and ideals.