Visa and employment finishing

[meshuk]

Hi Guys

Hoping for a little help, looks like my employment may well end this week so i guess my visa will be cancelled at some point, what are my options to extend my stay without leaving the country, im married to a Thai, have a kid and plan to apply for a Thai elite visa. Also my visa work permit was done with BOI. and Im located in Chiang Mai.

Thanks in advance for your help

[JackThompson]

If you have an "extension of stay" from an immigration-office in country, then that ends the day your job ends, and you need to take a letter from your employer confirming this to immigration and get your current extension cancelled.  Be pro-active on this, or it can cause problems later. 

 

At that point, you can apply for an extension based on Marriage to a Thai, if you meet the financial criteria - but as you will no longer be using "work" for income, you'd probably need to use the "money in the bank" method - showing 400K in a Thai bank in your name, which has been there for 2 months prior to the application.  There is some chance the local-office (imaginary rules) will say they won't do it because the reason of stay is changing - though the "official rules" should allow the change of stay-reason for different Non-Immigrant permitted-stay types.

 

You should also be able to apply for a 60-day extension to "visit your wife" when you cancel your work-based permitted-stay.  That would buy you some time - but, again, it could be up to local-office unofficial-rules.

 

Worst case, you can make a trip to Savannakhet or HCMC, and apply for a Non-O Visa based on marriage to a Thai.  You can get a "1-Year Multi-Entry" version for 5K Baht - no financial proofs required - and gives you 90-days stay on each entry.  If you only need a single-entry for one 90-day stay, that is also available in Vientiane or the other locations for 2K Baht - a bit more in Vietnam in USD - but not the Multi in Vientiane.