Retirement Visa Non 0 To Non B With W.P.

[Colabamumbai]

It is so long ago I don't remember. am on retirement visa, just started working at a school in Roi-Et. They tell me that the labor office will not accept the retirement visa for the Work Permit...So I need a Non B visa, and they want me to go to Laos to get this. I can probably get this changed over at AmnatCharoen Immigration office...

I just received a new passport and had all the necesary stamps transferred and bought a multiple entry visa, before the school hired me, last week.

1. Any chance of me getting the multiple entry transferred to the Non B???? Either after I do a Laos run, or if I do not do one at all and they do the transfer from retirement to Non B here in Thailand. I just paid 3800 Bhat for it, not realizing that I would have a Job the following week.

2. From my last Non B I forget, do I have to leave the country every 3 months, or just go to immigrationa and pay??? And if I want to leave, do I still neet a re-entry permit?

In one and a half years I have gone from Ed. visa, to Non B, to Retirement, and now it seems back to Non B. Good I dod not get the Marriage Visa in between...... Amazing Thailand....

[Mario2008]

1. When you apply for a new extension of stay at immigration, or new visa at a consulate, it will be the end of your current permission to stay and with that of your multiple re-entry permit. The might be nice of course, but suspect you will need a new one.

2. Depends if you apply for an extension of stay or not. if you apply for an extension of stay you don't have to leave, but do 90 day reports. If you don't ask for an extension of stay, you have to leave every 90 days.

Especially if it is a government school, immigration might let you change your reason of stay to employment. Do apply for the work permit first at the labour office and get a WP3 form from them.

[Colabamumbai]

1. When you apply for a new extension of stay at immigration, or new visa at a consulate, it will be the end of your current permission to stay and with that of your multiple re-entry permit. The might be nice of course, but suspect you will need a new one.

2. Depends if you apply for an extension of stay or not. if you apply for an extension of stay you don't have to leave, but do 90 day reports. If you don't ask for an extension of stay, you have to leave every 90 days.

Especially if it is a government school, immigration might let you change your reason of stay to employment. Do apply for the work permit first at the labour office and get a WP3 form from them.

Thanks Mario, the school is just waiting for the W.P. now, the labor office told the school that they would not accept the retirement visa and I would need the Non B.

[JRinger]

1. When you apply for a new extension of stay at immigration, or new visa at a consulate, it will be the end of your current permission to stay and with that of your multiple re-entry permit. The might be nice of course, but suspect you will need a new one.

2. Depends if you apply for an extension of stay or not. if you apply for an extension of stay you don't have to leave, but do 90 day reports. If you don't ask for an extension of stay, you have to leave every 90 days.

Especially if it is a government school, immigration might let you change your reason of stay to employment. Do apply for the work permit first at the labour office and get a WP3 form from them.

Thanks Mario, the school is just waiting for the W.P. now, the labor office told the school that they would not accept the retirement visa and I would need the Non B.

What if you have a Non-Imm B visa with retirement extension? Possible to get a work permit?

[lopburi3]

Your current permitted to stay (along with qualifications) determines if you can obtain a work permit. If you are on a retirement extension of stay it would not normally be issued. If you were on a 90 day non immigrant B visa issue entry it would. If you had entered on a non immigrant (?) entry but extended for retirement the retirement would be what was considered.