How old is too old to use the ED visa?

[Leaver]

9 minutes ago, Myran said:

You don't need to educate me on the existence of visa factories, I'm well aware of them. My comment were aimed at your claims that people don't study unless they're on an ED visa and that schools won't be interested in students who don't need ED visas.

Not that we could ever truly know the figures, but it would be interesting to know the percentage of real students, that is, the ones with a genuine interest in learning, compared to the ones just using this method to stay in Thailand long term. 

[kritsana77]

I am 52 years old. I did my mater's degree in 2015 and it took me four and a half years. Enrollment at a mid level university was around 80 k a semester. There were three semesters where I attended classes on the weekends and had my weekdays free. Each year the representative from my international university took me to immigration and I had to have a print out of my transcripts. Also, after the initial 1.5 years of taking classes, I had to pay my university 2k baht per semester to extend my student status to finish my thesis. So approximately 250k baht for five years of visas. I now have an international recognized master's degree, which means more cash for me.

 

Lastly, about three years ago I started teaching online, which I really like. I will NEVER work for a teaching agency or a Thai run school again. I would work for an international university though. They pay 1k per teaching hour. Good luck to all.

 

BTW, I am headed to Cambodia, Vietnam and PI this year to check each country out for four months in 2019/2020. 14 years in LOS was enough for me.

 

 

 

 

Edited May 4, 2019 by kritsana77
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[kritsana77]

On 5/2/2019 at 5:55 AM, ubonjoe said:

There is no age limit to get a non-ed visa and extensions of the entry from one.

I am 52 years old. I did my mater's degree in 2015 and it took me four and a half years. Enrollment at a mid level university was around 80 k a semester. There were three semesters where I attended classes on the weekends and had my weekdays free. Each year the representative from my international university took me to immigration and I had to have a print out of my transcripts. Also, after the initial 1.5 years of taking classes, I had to pay my university 2k baht per semester to extend my student status to finish my thesis. So approximately 250k baht for five years of visas. I now have an international recognized master's degree, which means more cash for me.

 

Lastly, about three years ago I started teaching online, which I really like. I will NEVER work for a teaching agency or a Thai run school again. I would work for an international university though. They pay 1k per teaching hour. Good luck to all.

 

BTW, I am headed to Cambodia, Vietnam and PI this year to check each country out for four months in 2019/2020. 14 years in LOS was enough for me.

 

[bbi1]

On 5/2/2019 at 6:21 PM, ubonjoe said:

For a language is it about 3 years if you are able to go to the advanced level of study but you could change to a different language to study to start over again.

Wasn't this changed to 1 year back in the crackdown in 2014? I was only able to get about a year's worth on an ED visa while going from the beginners all the way to advanced level from a legit expensive BKK language school that had no troubles with immigration during the crackdown, unlike other language schools.

Edited February 13, 2023 by bbi1

[ubonjoe]

27 minutes ago, bbi1 said:

Wasn't this changed to 1 year back in the crackdown in 2014? I was only able to get about a year's worth on an ED visa while going from the beginners all the way to advanced level from a legit expensive BKK language school that had no troubles with immigration during the crackdown, unlike other language schools.

A new immigration order was issued in 2014.

For informal schools the total stay for a non-ed visa is 1 year.

[simon43]

On 5/3/2019 at 3:33 PM, gwynt said:

I was in Jomtien when a guy was extending his Ed-visa for second year, learning Thai, The IO spoke to him in a very basic conversation, when the guy could not answer the IO looked at me with a wry smile. These are the ones who make life difficult for other genuine people. MY Thai is OK but I could understand him.

Years ago I had an ED visa in Phuket to learn Mandarin Chinese, and I attended all my classes and study was going well.  When I had to renew my ED visa, the IO said that he would test my language knowledge, but since he didn't know any Chinese he would test my Thai language knowledge instead!!

[Maestro]

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