Hi,

I am currently employed in a Private International School. I have just been given a 30 day extension on my tourist visa and on the 7th May I am due to get my 90day non B. I have not yet got my work permit but I am thinking of leaving the school that I am at as I have a lot of issues with the demands they are putting on the English teachers.

The question is if I leave my current job to go to another school will my 90day non B be ok or can this be canceled. If it were to be canceled where does that leave me. Is the 30 day extension I have got null and void when I get the 90 day non B. I really need to change jobs but I am unsure of what my situation visa wise would be if I do so. I have a British Passport.

Any help or advise would be really appreciated.

Not sure on this one. I suspect your non-B becomes invalid, as for a conversion from a tourist visa to a non-immigrant visa you normaly need to comply with the rules for a 1 year exension. but like I said I'm not sure. Might be simpler to get a new non-immigrant from a neigbouring country.

However your 30 day extension of your tourist visa remains valid, if you don't recieve the conversion. If you convert to a non-immigrant visa immigraiton will cancel your tourist visa, inclusing your extension.

If you change jobs and get a new WP before you convert your visa you might be alright.

When you exit your 30 day extension of stay is gone. When you enter on the non immigrant B you will get a 90 days stamp. That will be valid with or without work.

This appear to be a teacher working on an extended tourist visa without a work permit.

How will you get your non-B? Will you get it from immigration in Thailand o will you go abroad to a neigbouring country for it?

The School I am currently working for sorted out my 90 non B here in Bangkok I have not had to leave the country. They came with me last week to get the 90 day non B however, my original 60 tourist visa had only 3 days left so I had to get the 30 day extension then get my 90 day non B but this will take 2 weeks so I actually don't get it on my passport until 7th of May. I paid for the 30 day extension but they paid for the 90 day non B

I am currently employed in a Private International School.

This appear to be a teacher working on an extended tourist visa without a work permit.

I'd just add that no legitimate international school would subject their teachers to working in such an illegal manner.

The School I am currently working for sorted out my 90 non B here in Bangkok I have not had to leave the country. They came with me last week to get the 90 day non B however, my original 60 tourist visa had only 3 days left so I had to get the 30 day extension then get my 90 day non B but this will take 2 weeks so I actually don't get it on my passport until 7th of May. I paid for the 30 day extension but they paid for the 90 day non B

Then my first post applies, with the understanding that I'm not 100% sure. Not yet seen a case like your.

If it comes back with a 90 day non B only then you would be okay.

But it likely will be the visa combined with a 1 year extension. If it is this way and you want to change jobs it will be more complicated.