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Thanks for the info

This morning one of my friends told me that because of covid now we can change our non-o (wife) to non-b (work) at CW immigration. i was wondering if this is true or not. If its true, wife should come to the immigration or not. thanks

Hi, One of my friends has non-o visa with work permit working at a university in bangkok. Our wives working at the same place. He extended his visa for 1 year using having a wife method. Now he wants to extend using work method. He checked the list that @ubonjoe (thank you) provided in my other post and told me that his friends had to get a criminal check from the local police office. They never left the kingdom so it took their 10 min to get the report. Also he told me that immigration asked some teachers' degrees to approvment or something like that from the minister of affairs. Also approvmebt from their embassy ( that the university is real, or something like that) But all these things are not listed in the list provided and also this list is from thai government website. So he confused as i am. He is working there for 4 5 years now. At this point the for sure things he knows: - copy of his degrees (in his own country language, officially translation to english using a translator from his embassy) no embassy stamp but a stamp shows its officially translated. - copy of transcript - copy of his passport, first page and extension, visa - no need wife to go with him ( because extension reason is work) - copy of work permit - documents from his university - last year tax papers Could someone add what else needed, such as criminal report or else needed or not... that minister of affair thing is needed or not or what ever else needed not mentioning in that list. Thanks a lot

Maybe you can also bring any driving license with you... Work permit... anything you can think of related to your name... please update us about what happened. thanks

yours enough, but i strongly suggest you to go to a local police station and fill a missing form. keep the report and dont lose it

OP mentioned its a chain of hotels. lived 10 yrs in KK the only hotel that big i know in khon kaen is Sofitel, old pullman. I dont know any chain of hotels in KK. And im pretty sure they know how to do tm30 or report. if thats your hotel leave and stay in other hotel. There are many better hotels than that one. if not, i would move to another hotel again. obviously it might create future problems.

well, normally im in khon kaen area. but i travelled isan lot for 10 years now. In bangkok last 6 years now. time to time still going to khon kaen area to check my empty house and other isan cities. Im pretty sure they will stop me for this or that reason as you mentiones. Tbh sometimes (especially like 10-12 years ago) they jsut smile ask me where i am from and let me go. But later they started to ask driver license they check it and then they ask my passport. they look at the first page and check other pages with empty eyes. and in seconds give me back all. there are times not asked passport but i would say 80% they asked my passport. I have no problem showing them. not bothers me at all.

To work with your Non-o marriage visa, -get a multi entry non-o marriage visa from thai embassy (i think its 5000 baht) get multi so you will have time to arrange things. -you need to extend it 1 year in thailand at the immigration using 2 ways: min income 40K baht (thai work salary or from your country) or 400.000 in the bank. the rules are different. so check them second after extension with your non-o marriage your work will provide you documents and you can get your work permit. so you can work with your visa thats how im doing in thailand. non-o marriage extension based on my income from my thai company. if you dont have or cannot do any way of extensions... you can contact with an agency. It will cost you from 25K to 30K baht. and they will do the magic.

well technically and officially, your thai friend will be responsible from you and your acts. as the word says 'guarantor' your friend confirms that you are ok to get this visa, he knows you and put himself into the line for you. If you do something and disappear they will find him and try to get the info about you from him. thats all

it is true. Whenever they stopped me in Isaan area the first ask my driver license and then passport. They only look where i am from thats all. They only look where i am from thats all. they look pages too but with empty eyes. They dont know that visa details.

if they do that and report you, they must pay tax. thats what they dont want. I have a friend renting her home to farangs and thats how i know. And asking money from you is also wrong and illegal because it is free. The only reason why they ask money from you can be because they know IO will charge them 2000 baht because they didnt do TM30 in time but late. if i were you i would find a new place and move and do all tm30. It sounds like your landlord is useless and the only thing he wants is money and not care you.

im sure you will get a better answer from someone knows better, but i dont think you can use your work non-b for marriage non-b. Because your visa type is for working not marriage. But also im not sure i heard that you can change or get non-o marriage in thailand without leaving. It is better your future wife contact and ask clearly to your nearest IO or her house area IO is better because you need to go to that IO for extension. Im sure that you can extend your non-b marriage using both work or wife. congrats btw and wishing you a happy married life

I dont think there are police check points on the way. If there are they will only want to see your thai or international driving license. They MIGHT ask your passports if you dont have license. But probably they have no idea about visa and that details. Also they probably only want to see where you are from. just act natural and friendly, thats all.

totally agree. i also cannot see any negative thing that IO visits me. so what?! they will drink my thai ice-tea.. sit for 10 min probably... thats all... Now if they want to see my bedroom or else i would just ask them why, its my privacy.. because the reason why they are here is that many farangs give wrong address not to see my bedroom or bathroom. Now if they come 2nd time even if they saw me in their 1st visit, then yes i would make it an issue because obviously something is wrong here. again i have no problem they come to my home.

First of all i really dont want to create an argument on this. But i believe we need to think objective here. i dont know about the thai immigration law on this but i do believe imm is free to come to visit your home or to do things like that (its how it is in many countries i believe and including USA). In the UK immigration can blast into your home not even knocking the door. Happened few of my friends. Also if you were an immigration officer and your duty is to check randomly foreigners, im pretty sure you would never care about privacy or else but to do your job as far as the law allows you. I think no need to react on this topic. Obviously it is their right to do and they can do and they are doing. Now i also agree that a good reason or explanation would be great thing to do by the IO which had ben done (many foreigner give wrong address) and tbh i totally agree with this reason. We all know many foreigners give some 5 min creation addresses. Also OP mentioned IO is 100m from his home. Again tbh it is a great opportunity for the IO to demonstrate its authority or power which is again i think very normal. I know it is very alarming, stressful that IO is coming to your home... but again i think they should do it. This way the dark side and the light side will be clear amongst farangs.. They will be happy and we will be happy (farangs who wants to live hear without any problem) After they check you 1 time, then they know you and you will be free for the rest. I would gladly accept a visit from IO about this. I just cannot see any reason to criticize IO who is just trying to their job. Clean their own country and find the good and the bad. I think this is very normal. But again i reply myself, they must do it legally. I mean if it is not in the law that they cannot visit you then yes, we have lot to talk. but if it in the law.. then thats the end.

thanks for the posts.

Not sure if its the correct section but i think so. Lets say you have non-o, work permit and working for a long time. What happens if you lose your passport? And show all police report, and get a new visa from your embassy. And tell immigration you had non-b but lost your passport and here are the documents from my work with my work permit. Will immigration give your extension to your new passport? Do they keep your records at their office or computer (i dont think so)? can they check from that or not about your past extensions or likewise? Whats the procedure? If the answer is NO for all... then you need to leave the country and get a new non-b? how to leave? thanks

If you want to stay only for 3 weeks not more, all you need is a non-o single entry visa from the thai embassy (as you probably know need few extra things because of covid). That will give you a month of time to stay in thailand (28 days) your arrival card address will be where ever you will stay ( im not sure if there is arrival card still, if i remember correct i read somewhere no need anymore, but if need again just write where you will stay). Do your TM30 (notification of immigration) at your local immigration office in 24 hours. You need house book, wife id i thinks thats all the info you were asking. If have more im sure people who knows better will add.

I would notify a hospital. They will send an ambulance. If hes here it means he has insurance for covid too. So no problem. second i would notify immigration. If i dont remember wrong, hospital can arrange some documents for your friend for immigration. In medical situations immigration gives extra time (happened to 1 of my friends)

I see... thanks for the info. But again this or that way.. soon or later.. at the end of the day.. you name it but you need/must put some money in your thai bank account, i mean you cannot be living in thailand just using your credit card, right? Its not my place to give you any advice or suggestion or tell to what to do but why dont you transfer big amount every 1st day of the month? Think that will balance things? Thnx

Ok.. thanks

hi, im also a good customer of lazada. I think its great and bought lot of things and never had any problems. Although i cannot understand paying with credit cards when you ordered something online. What ever i have ordered online i want to pay when i see it first. And i never order electronics or likewise things online. Need to see and test first. im sorry i dont understand what you mean. I might be wrong but, if you have thai DEBIT card which is not credit card which means you have to have money in the debit card account. it is thai debit card so you must have thai baht in it. if it is dollar account then you must have dollar in it. So how they can charge you 4%? what bank charges, what exchange rate? Youi can pay in baht with lazada...

im not in pattaya but here in bangkok any auto key shop will do that for 100-500 baht. The shops change car key bat and so on. Not the ones in shopping malls under the stairs.

This happened to me probably 6 years ago. I was a busines meeting at sri racha but my 90 day reports were in another city. And also it was my 90 day report time. I went to sri racha immigration and told them that i want to do my 90 days. Of course they told me i need to go to the city where i should do. I told them and showed them that im at a busines trip and meeting. They were very helpful i must say. He did my 90 days and put a note on it said they did it because i was in a meeting here. The next time when i went to do my 90 days at my city immigration they just read it and showed it to his boss then the boss asked me if i was at a meeting and where.. 5 minutes got my 90 days. The IO told me that in speacial cases they can help and do 90 days like in my case. BUT if you are at a holiday or nothing special, there is no way. I dont know if its still like this now.

thnx for the info ????