Residency

[mickey]

Hi All

I am a newbie to posting this site, although I have read many good posts. I am getting married in September in LOS and am therefore looking to settle there early next year. I am a qualified teacher and intend to seek employment in September for next year. However, I have been reading posts on permanent residency permits as another option to the normal visa.

The question is what are the pre-requisites for such a permit and what is the new price following the July increases. I am a UK citizen and 50 in September, the GF and I already have land donated by the family as wedding present or should I say purchased from by way of dowry! On which we are going to build a house on.

Obviosly reading the posts so far, I would need to secure a standard visa to start with due to the time it takes to process the residency permit, so what type of visa would you recommend?

Many thanks in anticipation

Mickey

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Hi All

I am a newbie to posting this site, although I have read many good posts. I am getting married in September in LOS and am therefore looking to settle there early next year. I am a qualified teacher and intend to seek employment in September for next year. However, I have been reading posts on permanent residency permits as another option to the normal visa.

The question is what are the pre-requisites for such a permit and what is the new price following the July increases. I am a UK citizen and 50 in September, the GF and I already have land donated by the family as wedding present or should I say purchased from by way of dowry! On which we are going to build a house on.

Obviosly reading the posts so far, I would need to secure a standard visa to start with due to the time it takes to process the residency permit, so what type of visa would you recommend?

Many thanks in anticipation

Mickey

Before you come to the LOS get a multiple entry Non-Immigrant O class visa from the Royal Thai Consulate in Hull. It can be done by mail. Once you are married you can extend that visa for up to 12 months at Immigration in Thailand, and after 3 continuous annual extensions you are entitled to apply for residency. To be eligible for the extensions you need to have a bank account in Thailand with 400,000 baht in it.

[boris]

You have been given accurate advice as to steps that need to be taken to enable you to apply for permanent residency.I don't want to pour cold water on your aspiration but on the basis of the information you have provided, I would rate your chances of success as very slim (actually zero).My impression is that Immigration/Interior Ministry have been tightening the criteria to actually achieve success even though the eligibility requirements to apply have remained much the the same.A friend who obtained PR a couple of years ago tells me that a typical successful applicant might be a well off businessman, with over 5 years residence in the Kingdom under the correct work permit/visa regime and with a tax payment record to show for it.Would probably be educated to university degree standard and have goodish level of Thai language and a respected position in the local community, i.e ruling out all English teachers.most retirees,jobless residents,gf/wife supporters and other assorted farang khi nok (like myself!).

[paulfr]

http://www.thaivisa.com/300.0.html

[dr_Pat_Pong]

You have been given accurate advice as to steps that need to be taken to enable you to apply for permanent residency.I don't want to pour cold water on your aspiration but on the basis of the information you have provided, I would rate your chances of success as very slim (actually zero).My impression is that Immigration/Interior Ministry have been tightening the criteria to actually achieve success even though the eligibility requirements to apply have remained much the the same.A friend who obtained PR a couple of years ago tells me that a typical successful applicant might be a well off businessman, with over 5 years residence in the Kingdom under the correct work permit/visa regime and with a tax payment record to show for it.Would probably be educated to university degree standard and have goodish level of Thai language and a respected position in the local community, i.e ruling out all English teachers.most retirees,jobless residents,gf/wife supporters and other assorted farang khi nok (like myself!).

I said ENTITLED to apply Boris. That doesn't presume approval.

[KevinN]

Hi All

I am a qualified teacher and intend to seek employment in September for next year.

should I say purchased from by way of dowry! On which we are going to build a house on.

Many thanks in anticipation

Mickey

Before you start to teach here in Thailand,you should spruce up on your english usage a tad,,they already know how to talk like that.

[mickey]

Thanks for all the great information you have given me, with special thanks to Dr Pat Pong and Paulfr.

I know that the post was not gramically correct, it comes from writing & reading too many emails to the gf. Also, for some unknown reason everyone assumed that I am an English teacher - well, we all know what assumtion leads to, don't we!

Mickey

[wolf5370]

Mickey,

the reason everyone assumed you were an English teacher is because you said

am a qualified teacher and intend to seek employment in September for next year

. That implies you are going to teach when you come to LOS.

Most foreign teachers are language teachers - its the easiest way to show specialisation that allows you to take a Thai job. Your employer would have to show that there was reason to hire you over a Thai national; language is the obvious get-out.

What do you teach?