According t the Current Version of Non-Uniform Immigration, can a Visa on Arrival be converted to a Non-B?

[FangFerang]

I am being told it can, but that runs contrary to what I read.

[ubonjoe]

Are you asking about a 15 day visa on arrival that has to be applied for and a 2000 baht fee paid or a 30 day visa exempt entry.

With a visa exempt entry a non-b visa can be apply for. See: https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1.FOR-WORKING-IN-A-COMPANY-OR-LIMITED-PARTNERSHIP-NON-B.pdf

For teaching it is this one: https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2.FOR-WORKING-AS-TEACHER-NON-B.pdf

[FangFerang]

12 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

Are you asking about a 15 day visa on arrival that has to be applied for and a 2000 baht fee paid or a 30 day visa exempt entry.

With a visa exempt entry a non-b visa can be apply for. See: https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1.FOR-WORKING-IN-A-COMPANY-OR-LIMITED-PARTNERSHIP-NON-B.pdf

For teaching it is this one: https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2.FOR-WORKING-AS-TEACHER-NON-B.pdf

I flew to Cambodia and applied for a Tourist visa, and it seems I wasted a lot of money and time and only needed to turn around and fly back to Thailand for a visa exempt entry, which can be extended for Americans like me.  Well, <deleted>.  Am I right, now?

[Tod Daniels]

I think the problem is, you are confusing what a visa on arrival is with either a visa exempt entry or a tourist visa arrival as those are three completely different things.

 

So let's see if we can't get your errant terminology dialed in before we answer your question.

 

A visa on arrival is sold to people from 18 countries, for 2,000 baht and they get stamped in for 15 days when they arrive.

 

A visa exempt entry is given to people for free from 51 countries and they get stamped in for 30 days when they show up.

 

As you figured out a tourist visa is bought from a Thai consulate in another country before you wing your way here and when you show up you get stamped in for 60 days.

 

As an American if you showed up with no visa in your passport for Thailand, you would have gotten stamped in for 30 days on the visa exempt program.

 

So to answer your question, yes you can indeed convert a 30-day Visa exempt entry or a 60-day tourist visa entry into a 90 day non-immigrant type visa at the immigration office by supplying the documentation required for that Visa

Edited May 7, 2022 by tod-daniels

[LukKrueng]

22 hours ago, FangFerang said:

for Americans like me

What about other Americans?