Change from "Non O" - retirement to "Non B" and getting employment - please advise.

[Boeing 777]

I have a "Non O" with retirement status, report every 90 days.

 

Offered a job, need to change to "Non B" then apply for a work permit.

 

Agents advise that I need to leave the country, get a tourist Visa, then leave a second time with the work permit details / paperwork, then I can obtain "Non B" with "work permit".

 

Happy to go out twice, is there anybody who has followed this path?

 

Many thanks, hope you can advise.

[allane]

In my view, the Tourist Visa step is unnecessary. I once changed from a Non-B Extension of Stay (Retirement) to a Non-B (Employment). I had to leave the country, but only once. Have you checked with your Immigration Office ? That agent might be just trying to sell you an extra visa trip.

[ubonjoe]

9 minutes ago, allane said:

In my view, the Tourist Visa step is unnecessary. I once changed from a Non-B Extension of Stay (Retirement) to a Non-B (Employment). I had to leave the country, but only once. Have you checked with your Immigration Office ? That agent might be just trying to sell you an extra visa trip.

The problem is being able to get a work permit application approval letter that embassies and consulate require to issue a non-b visa for working (not needed for teaching). Most work permit offices will not accept a work permit application with an extension of stay based upon retirement.

Many people have had to leave and re-enter the country to get a tourist visa or visa exempt entry to do it.

[allane]

Mine was for teaching.

[sussex]

On 11/19/2018 at 8:05 PM, ubonjoe said:

The problem is being able to get a work permit application approval letter that embassies and consulate require to issue a non-b visa for working (not needed for teaching). Most work permit offices will not accept a work permit application with an extension of stay based upon retirement.

 

So if someone is here on a tourist visa, and has just been offered a teaching job, are the options:

a) leave the country and apply for a new non-B visa but no need for the WP letter, just the job contract and letter of registration of the school and degree certificate?

b) do what is required in step 6 of this (https://www.immigration.go.th/content/service_73) before the tourist visa has less than 15 days left? Is 6.4 "An employment certification form (Labor Department Application Form)" the same as the letter saying a work permit application has been submitted?

 

 

[ubonjoe]

9 hours ago, sussex said:

b) do what is required in step 6 of this (https://www.immigration.go.th/content/service_73) before the tourist visa has less than 15 days left? Is 6.4 "An employment certification form (Labor Department Application Form)" the same as the letter saying a work permit application has been submitted?

Yes it is.

But 5.5 and 6.6 cause some people problems when they do the application.