dgarland

Thanks. Perhaps the OP should be edited to read "must go to a new building" instead of "can go to a new building".

Can somebody clarify - the OP says several times that this is an 'additional' location, meaning it's in addition to Chaengwattana rather than in place of it.  Reading this as simply as possible, that means we can go either to Chaengwattana or Muang Thong Thani to do TM30s and 90 day reports.  Is my reading of this correct?

23 minutes ago, Mr Smithy said:

LOL - Are you really trying to claim that nomads generate $Billions for the Thai economy? 

Billions with an S is kind of ridiculous but a conservative estimate could see the number in the upper millions if we change the $ to a ฿.  How much can one make working online, 30,000? That's 360 kilobaht a year. If just 5% of retirees do this, that could be a ฿1.4 billion annual revenue stream.

1 hour ago, JRG23 said:

I have experience in this. It is tolerated, yes. But the authorities are slowly closing in. They are gradually getting wise to the “working online” community. 

Is this 'authorities closing in' based on something or just idle speculation?

Seems ridiculous for immigration to care about this. It's money coming into the country.

I sort of expected to see a sticky at the top of the forum detailing all the temporary covid-related changes we'll encounter when we visit immigration.  Seeing no such discussion, let me ask: Aside from duct tape on every other seat and tourist extensions being done at Muang Thong Thani, Is it basically business as usual at CW?  Is it still an all-day wait to get a retirement extension or are they rubber-stamping everything to get people in and out AFAP? I'm planning to go some time during the week of April 6th.  Thanks.

1 minute ago, ubonjoe said:

If teaching at University you could leave the country and apply for a a non-b visa without needing a work application approval letter at a nearby embassy or consulate.

That would be great. Is there a preferred "easy" country to do this in? I'd prefer Ho Chi Minh City, if possible. 

I'm still wondering what does one do if the documents needed by the consulate are not quite in order or some detail is missing.

Hi... google search about my question led me to a discussion here but it was two years old (thanks, google) so I figured I'll start a new one.

I am currently in Thailand on my 4th or 5th retirement extension. An opportunity has arisen to start working at a nearby university and I am wondering if my retirement extension can be somehow changed into a working extension without leaving the country.  If not, do I have to go back home (USA) and apply for a new visa?

Even though my retirement extensions have been pretty uneventful, I get terrible anxiety whenever I go to immigration. So I'm petrified of going back to the USA to apply for a business visa, and it turns out I lack some piece of paper needed by the embassy before they'll grant me the visa?  What do I do then? Come back to Thailand on 30-day exempt stamp, get the missing piece of paper, fly back to the USA and start all over again?  All those back-and-forth flights to get the paperwork right is going to cost more arms and legs than I have. There must be another way that I'm not aware of.  Please let me know if there is a more time & cost-effective way to do this.