How Long Can I Stay After Resigning?

[greyskye11]

I'm hoping to get some answers and solutions.

I am holding a work permit valid for another 5 months but have recently resigned. I want to still be able to stay in thailand and find another job or do some business. Am i allowed to continue staying here for another 5 months or is there like a duration which I am allowed to stay before I am forced to go back to my home country?

What else can i do to prolong my stay here?

[Crossy]

Do you have an extension of stay from immigration in Thailand? If so you have until midnight on the day your employment ends (7 day extension from immigration for 1900 Baht).

If you have a VISA obtained outside Thailand, you can remain so long as the visa is valid (doing border hops if it's multi-entry).

Otherwise a trip to Vientiene or similar for a (free) tourist visa is in order to keep you legal until something comes up.

[aussiebebe]

Could I get some advice please? I'm just asking because I'm curious not because anything has or is likely to happen. I still thought that I'd get 7 days if I ever lost my job/resigned/left etc. I have a non-imm B visa and didn't know the 7-day thing had stopped, when was that?

If you have a VISA obtained outside Thailand, you can remain so long as the visa is valid (doing border hops if it's multi-entry).

I got my Non-Imm B from the Thai embassy in Singapore three years ago and my company renewed it every year - would my visa fall into that category? Could I just stay and do 90day reports or would my company cancel it if I left? I'm just curious to know.

Otherwise a trip to Vientiene or similar for a (free) tourist visa is in order to keep you legal until something comes up.

What's the latest about tourist visas? last I heard you could do three month-ones and then had to go to an international airport or something? is this still the case? A mate of mine has a Filipino nanny/maid who has to go every 15 days last time I asked.

[thaiphoon]

It sounds like after your original Non-B visa expired you applied an extension of stay on the basis of employment, and this was handled by your employer at Thai immigration (note extension of stay is not a visa). If so, you should be doing 90 day address reporting. Is this correct?

On this basis, if your employment ends your employer would give you a letter to take to immigration on your last day of working and immigration would cancel your extension of stay. You would have to leave the country that day or apply at immigration for a 7 day extension (7 days is no longer an automatic entitlement). Failure to leave on time would put you on overstay.

Vientiane is currently issuing double entry tourist visas for free. 60 day permission to stay on entry into the Kingdom + 30 day extension from immigration, border run to activate second 60 day entry + further 30 day extension from immigration would give nearly a 6 month stay.

[Mario2008]

Could I get some advice please? I'm just asking because I'm curious not because anything has or is likely to happen. I still thought that I'd get 7 days if I ever lost my job/resigned/left etc. I have a non-imm B visa and didn't know the 7-day thing had stopped, when was that?

It stopped in october 2006. Now you can get a 7 day extension for 1,900 baht if you go to immigration.

[aussiebebe]

It sounds like after your original Non-B visa expired you applied an extension of stay on the basis of employment, and this was handled by your employer at Thai immigration (note extension of stay is not a visa). If so, you should be doing 90 day address reporting. Is this correct?

Yes that's right, I just do the 90 day report, thanks for explaining it for me. I understand now; my original non-imm B visa stopped and i've been staying on 'extension of stay' - that explains a lot. If anyone asked me before I just said I was on a non-imm B visa.

One more question about this...

Vientiane is currently issuing double entry tourist visas for free. 60 day permission to stay on entry into the Kingdom + 30 day extension from immigration, border run to activate second 60 day entry + further 30 day extension from immigration would give nearly a 6 month stay.

can this be done perpetually or are there limits and rules about how many times this can be done?

thanks a lot.

[thaiphoon]

One more question about this...

Vientiane is currently issuing double entry tourist visas for free. 60 day permission to stay on entry into the Kingdom + 30 day extension from immigration, border run to activate second 60 day entry + further 30 day extension from immigration would give nearly a 6 month stay.

can this be done perpetually or are there limits and rules about how many times this can be done?

thanks a lot.

A few times seems not to be a problem, but be aware of current crackdown on issuing too many back to back tourist visas at Vientiane (have a look at thread below). Reports indicate some SEA nationals have been refused visas; some other nationals have received red warning stamp but tourist visas have been issued this time round. At the moment it is not known what will happen when these people re-apply for new visas. The alternative is to obtain 12 month multiple entry Non-O visa from honorary consulates in Perth/Brisbane on basis of visiting friends (but need copy of Thai friend's ID/passport). But rules may of course change in the future.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Red-Warning-...ne-t300805.html