Ive done a fair bit of searching but cant seem to find an answer to this!!

I currently have a Tourist TR 60 day visa that I obtained from the UK Thai Consulate as I'm a British passport holder. Its a 2 entry visa and I have used 1 entry so far, now I'm about to head back into Thailand from Australia and will use the second entry.

My question is can I change this tourist type TR visa when I'm actually in Thailand to be a Non Immigrant B visa? My objective would be to stay in Thailand and get a job and work permit to teach English.

Right now as I am in Australia the other less convenient option would be to head to the Brisbane Thai consulate and apply for a Non Imm O visa that would allow me to seek work. However if I can simply enter Thailand and change the status of my TR tourist visa to non imm B that would appear to be the easiest route.

Any help or advice is much appreciated, thanks in advance

Possible, if you have at least 21 days left on your permitted to stay stamp. But you have to qualify for an extention for 1 year, so a lot of paperwork involved in maybe a short time.

Possible, if you have at least 21 days left on your permitted to stay stamp. But you have to qualify for an extention for 1 year, so a lot of paperwork involved in maybe a short time.

Hi Mario thanks for the advice.

When I arrive I will have 60 days on the TR so do you think that will be enough time to get paperwork together to change to the non Imm B visa? Or do you think I'm better trying to get a Non Imm O visa from the Thai consulate here in Brisbane and then heading into Thailand with that to seek employment?

get non-O.

I agree with NHJ that it would be easier to get a non-O first, but since you already have a tourist visa.... Just make sure your visa is still valid. You have to make use of the visa within a certain time, often 3 months sometimes 6.

The paperwork for a teacher is pretty straight forward, but it also depends on how soon you find a job. You can extend your tourist visa with 30 days in country if need be.

If you need to go for a non-B visayou can get it from a neighbouring country.

previous visa will be cancelled once you'll get the new one.

Thanks guys for the advice. I think I will stick with the tourist visa and change status in Thailand if I get a job.

After entering with your tourist visa you can apply for a work permit and get the receipt for your work permit application. With this receipt and the required documents from your employer you go then to a Thai consulate in the neighbourhood, get a single-entry non-B visa and return to Thailand, pick up your work permit at the employment Department, get an annual extension of stay at the immigration office.

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Maestro