Immigration forcing me to overstay

[Thomastm]

So I am on a non-B which expires today. I have a new work contract from a different school starting on today's date too.

 

Immigration said my old school must cancel my work permit before I can change visa or even use my embassy letter to get on amnesty etc.

 

The problem now is that the director of my old school has gone out of town for a few days on a meeting.

 

Immigration said this will force me to pay 500 baht per day.

 

 

Is this BS? or is there anything I can do. The whole situation confuses me. I am doing this in Rayong province for information. Are other immigration offices doing this?

[2 is 1]

Vice director can sign your papers also! In some case anyway ask first!

[ubonjoe]

As soon as your permit to stay ends you would be under the amnesty until it ends on the October 31st now.

Immigration may not of known it was approved yesterday by the cabinet.

Whether you will be able to apply for a new extension later when you can formally cancel your current one is unknown.

[Thomastm]

10 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

As soon as your permit to stay ends you would be under the amnesty until it ends on the October 31st now.

Immigration mya not of known it was approved yesterday by the cabinet.

Whether you will be able to apply for a new extension later when you can formally cancel your current one is unknown.

So this would mean no 'fine" correct?

 

Also, this seems like good news as I will not be illegal under amnesty correct?

[ubonjoe]

7 minutes ago, Thomastm said:

So this would mean no 'fine" correct?

Also, this seems like good news as I will not be illegal under amnesty correct?

Yes and Yes

[Thomastm]

1 minute ago, ubonjoe said:

Yes and Yes

Awesome, thank you. I was stressing out about it.

 

Does my old school need to cancel my work permit if it expires today? Or can I start a new non-b process starting tomorrow?

[jackdd]

8 minutes ago, Thomastm said:

Or can I start a new non-b process starting tomorrow?

The "amnesty" extension from 27th September to 31st October was approved by the Cabinet, but isn't official law yet (it has to be published in the Royal Gazette, this is just a technicality).

But because it isn't law yet, if you go tomorrow they might tell you that you are on overstay (which you technically are at this point). So better wait until it was published in the Royal Gazette (end of this week, or next week), and then attend immigration, then they can't consider you as being on overstay.

[ubonjoe]

41 minutes ago, Thomastm said:

Does my old school need to cancel my work permit if it expires today? Or can I start a new non-b process starting tomorrow?

To apply for a new extension of stay (it is not a visa of any kind) the normal procedure is that your new employer would apply for the work permit and get a application approval letter. Then it would be used with supporting documents form them for you new extension after the old one is cancelled. Then the new one would be issued after the old one is canceled.

[Thomastm]

46 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

To apply for a new extension of stay (it is not a visa of any kind) the normal procedure is that your new employer would apply for the work permit and get a application approval letter. Then it would be used with supporting documents form them for you new extension after the old one is cancelled. Then the new one would be issued after the old one is canceled.

Ah i see. That is why the employment office needs the work permit cancelled and a letter from the old school saying my employment has ended. 

 

The new school said they cannot employ me until this has been done.

 

So looks like i am on amnesty for a little while.

 

Thanks for the info.