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Just saw this thread. Has anyone had any success?
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Hello Joe.
I am on a non-O extension but it is for volunteering not marriage.
I have an offer of employment but the visa agent is adamant that I must have a non-B visa first, and must leave the country.
When I told her that I would like to change my reason for extension of stay, she didn’t seem to understand. She says I need a non-B visa for a work permit application.
My first question is 1. Do you know of any concrete examples of people who have successfully changed from a volunteering visa to a non-B in Thailand?
My second question is 2. Or do you have a link with the official information explicitly saying this is possible?
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It should be legitimate as of today, as the MOE just announced teachers can get a non-B in Thailand
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Good news: The Ministey of Education just announced this afternoon new teachers can get Non-B in Thailand without leaving the country.
Says ask at your local office for details.
Any details from people going to IOs, especially CW would be great.
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Would be very grateful if anyone can give personal experience or insight into my situation, especially with this pandemic and visa amnesty.
First of all, I am not asking to switch between Non-O visa to a Non-B visa inside Thailand. I know this is not usually possible.
Question: What I want to know is: Can I change from an extension of stay (based on an original Non-Immigrant O visa for volunteers) to an extension of stay for paid work (usually based on Non-Immigrant B visa).
1. If my prospective employer has all the documentation, is it just a straightforward process at IO to pay 2000 Baht?
2. Does it also depend on how long I have left on my extension of stay?
3. Does my change of extension to stay require me to get a Ministry of Labor work permit (for paid work) first - or just documents from my prospective employer?
4. Does it depend on the IO? My local one is CW in Bangkok.5. Does the current pandemic / visa amnesty change any of the previous rules?
Many thanks for anyone with relevant experience or understanding- 1
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Does anyone know if the original sponsor of your initial 90-day non-B must be the same company that provides you all the documents for the Work Permit and subsequent 1-year non-B extension?
For example; company A helped me get an initial 90-day non-B stamp. But now that I am in Thailand with the stamp, I want to be employed by company B (company A is fine with that). I have yet to begin the work permit process.
Does it matter to either the labor department who does the work permit, or to Immgration who gives the 1-year extension that company A and B are different? Do they even check or know who sponsored my initial 90-day business visa stamp? - (since the details are not visible in your passport)
Change from non O to non B without leaving?
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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*bad information
It’s the one in Bangkok. They gave me the WP 25 and it looks straightforward. The Employment Office were quite clear I didn’t need to leave Thailand to apply. They double-checked between staff.
The visa agent also told me to cancel my current non-O and ask for a three-week extension even before my employer and I have gathered all the required documents to attend the Employment Office in Din Daeng.
If I can successfully get a work permit application approval letter without cancelling my current visa extension, then isn’t it safer for me to not cancel it until before I actually go to immigration to change it to a non-B?
It seems like the rush to cancel my current non-O extension with a month remaining is just more *bad information from the agent again? Or are they actually right about this one for some technical reason?