Non Immigrant B Visa

[Nick33]

Can someone put me right please? I recently went down to KL to apply to the Thai Embassy there for a Non Immigrant B Visa so that I could apply for a work permit in Thailand. When I came back my lawyers pointed out that the Thai Embassy there had granted me a single entry Non Immigrant B Visa whereas all the paperwork that they had supplied me with stated that I needed a multi entry.

They asked me a further 3800B and sent my passport back to the authorities here in Bangkok whereupon I was granted a multi entry visa headed Non Imm on top of an oblong box with the necessary stamps and under place of issue Bangkok. The valid date however states 5 June 2011 (i.e. in 3 months) and the lawyer told me that I still have to report my address and whereabouts and also that I have to show 800,000B in a bank on deposit. Forgive me but I thought that as now my retirement visa had been changed to a Non Immigrant B Working Visa that I no longer needed to keep the 800,000B on retention in a bank for the previous 3 months before each report date? Have I got it wrong or have I misunderstood my lawyers? Do I still need to have the money on deposit as well as work here for a living? Confused from Hua Hin!

[lopburi3]

Your 'lawyers' do not seem to have a clue. Unless you have a work permit already with 8 months or more remaining KL would never issue a multi entry visa. 3.8k is likely for a multi re-entry permit which is useless as you can only use it during your already granted 90 day stay. You do not need 800k in bank account for a work extension of stay and you can not work with retirement extension of stay. You only have to report your address after being here 90 days which will not happen on 90 day visa entries.

So get the work permit and then before June 5 make the trip again and obtain the multi entry B visa. Obviously your employment will not support a one year extension of stay if you need to obtain such a visa. And you will have to cross border/return every 90 days or less (but no address reports will be required).

[InterestedObserver]

You are correct, the 800,000 baht in a Thai bank is for a 1 year extension of stay based on retirement. You cannot work with a extension of stay based on retirement. You say that you now have a multiple-entry non-immigrant "B" visa valid until 5 June 2011. Just prior to 5 June 2011 you need to do a border run to get another 90 day entry stamp in your passport. In the mean time you apply for a work permit from the local labor office, with the help of your prospective employer and/or lawyer. You take that work permit to immigration and apply for a 1 year extension of stay based on employment, assuming you have all the necessary documents.

[lopburi3]

He can not have such a visa - they are not issued inside Thailand and would be valid for one year not 90 days. It appears he only has a multi re-entry permit which only allows him to exit/enter for the current permitted to stay time.

[InterestedObserver]

He can not have such a visa - they are not issued inside Thailand and would be valid for one year not 90 days. It appears he only has a multi re-entry permit which only allows him to exit/enter for the current permitted to stay time.

Just going by what the OP stated. I'm aware that many posters cannot read what is stamped in their passport or understand same. If the OP has a re-entry permit, then the stamp in his passport will say so. Thanks for bring the apparent discrepancy up.

[PoorSucker]

It's a single entry non-B valid for one entry for 90 days.

Must have a WP to get a multiple entry in KL.