Non-Immigrant O "Employment Prohibited"

[Mario2008]

You didn't change the visa, you changed the reason for an extension of stay in Thailand.

[IMA_FARANG]

A non immigrant O visa is considered category "Other".

It is simply means a "doesn't fit into another category" type visa.

If you had intended to work while in Thailand then you ideally shhould have applied for a non immigrant B visa....a Business visa which would have allowed you to be employed.

But to get that non immigrant B visa would have required an offer of employment from a Thai company.

However, the good news is that the non immigrant O visa you have will allow you entry into Thailand with no problem.

Since you intend to work, you will need a job, The Thai company who offers you that job will initiate the paperwork to get you a Work Permit. With that work permit your visa will also be changed from a non immigrant O to a non immigrant B which allows employment.

That work permit, and the change of visa type can be done in Thailand.

The thing you need to understand however, is that a non immigrant type B visa depends on you having that work permit and that job.

If you lose or quit that job, you lose that type B visa and must leave the country then.

All that starts with your Thai company making you a job offer and initiating the paperwork.

A visa, irregardless of type, gets you into country, then you can convert it to one on which employment is allowed here.

It's the work permit...and the job offered by a Thai company...that is the key to the whole process.

At least that's the way the process is supposed to work.

[digitalchromakey]

A non immigrant O visa is considered category "Other".

It is simply means a "doesn't fit into another category" type visa.

If you had intended to work while in Thailand then you ideally shhould have applied for a non immigrant B visa....a Business visa which would have allowed you to be employed.

But to get that non immigrant B visa would have required an offer of employment from a Thai company.

However, the good news is that the non immigrant O visa you have will allow you entry into Thailand with no problem.

Since you intend to work, you will need a job, The Thai company who offers you that job will initiate the paperwork to get you a Work Permit. With that work permit your visa will also be changed from a non immigrant O to a non immigrant B which allows employment.

That work permit, and the change of visa type can be done in Thailand.

The thing you need to understand however, is that a non immigrant type B visa depends on you having that work permit and that job.

If you lose or quit that job, you lose that type B visa and must leave the country then.

All that starts with your Thai company making you a job offer and initiating the paperwork.

A visa, irregardless of type, gets you into country, then you can convert it to one on which employment is allowed here.

It's the work permit...and the job offered by a Thai company...that is the key to the whole process.

At least that's the way the process is supposed to work.

You can get a Non Immigrant Type B Visa before a Work Permit is issued, in fact normally this is the process.

It has also been posted that Labour Departments in a few areas will not issue a Work Permit against a non immigrant O Visa.

What the post above refers to ( I deduce) is obtaining an Extension of Permission to Stay based on Employment in Thailand (Police Order 777/2551 Section 2.1) - this is not a B Visa.

You never 'lose' a B Visa when you end employment, but you do lose a Section 2.1 Extension of Permission to Stay.

It's the Work Permit that allows you to work, the B Visa mere allows you to get one and the Extension/Visa to keep a WP.

However you will need a Work Permit to obtain a fresh one year Non B when the existing Non B Visa expires idf you have not gone down the extension route.

[pj123]

A non immigrant O visa is considered category "Other".

It is simply means a "doesn't fit into another category" type visa.

If you had intended to work while in Thailand then you ideally shhould have applied for a non immigrant B visa....a Business visa which would have allowed you to be employed.

But to get that non immigrant B visa would have required an offer of employment from a Thai company.

However, the good news is that the non immigrant O visa you have will allow you entry into Thailand with no problem.

Since you intend to work, you will need a job, The Thai company who offers you that job will initiate the paperwork to get you a Work Permit. With that work permit your visa will also be changed from a non immigrant O to a non immigrant B which allows employment.

That work permit, and the change of visa type can be done in Thailand.

The thing you need to understand however, is that a non immigrant type B visa depends on you having that work permit and that job.

If you lose or quit that job, you lose that type B visa and must leave the country then.

All that starts with your Thai company making you a job offer and initiating the paperwork.

A visa, irregardless of type, gets you into country, then you can convert it to one on which employment is allowed here.

It's the work permit...and the job offered by a Thai company...that is the key to the whole process.

At least that's the way the process is supposed to work.

I have had WPs with 3 diffferent employers on the basis of an extension to my non O visa. On all three occasions, there was no need to move to a type B.

[ubonjoe]

A non immigrant O visa is considered category "Other".

It is simply means a "doesn't fit into another category" type visa.

If you had intended to work while in Thailand then you ideally shhould have applied for a non immigrant B visa....a Business visa which would have allowed you to be employed.

But to get that non immigrant B visa would have required an offer of employment from a Thai company.

However, the good news is that the non immigrant O visa you have will allow you entry into Thailand with no problem.

Since you intend to work, you will need a job, The Thai company who offers you that job will initiate the paperwork to get you a Work Permit. With that work permit your visa will also be changed from a non immigrant O to a non immigrant B which allows employment.

That work permit, and the change of visa type can be done in Thailand.

The thing you need to understand however, is that a non immigrant type B visa depends on you having that work permit and that job.

If you lose or quit that job, you lose that type B visa and must leave the country then.

All that starts with your Thai company making you a job offer and initiating the paperwork.

A visa, irregardless of type, gets you into country, then you can convert it to one on which employment is allowed here.

It's the work permit...and the job offered by a Thai company...that is the key to the whole process.

At least that's the way the process is supposed to work.

I have had WPs with 3 diffferent employers on the basis of an extension to my non O visa. On all three occasions, there was no need to move to a type B.

I believe you have and extension of stay based upon marriage that has extended a permit to stay from a non-o visa visa. Using the term non-o visa could indicate that you are retired (no work permit possible), a volunteer (with work permit) and etc.

Calling an extension of stay a visa of any type confuses things. I am not pointing this out to only you but to all the others that do this. So please don't take this personally.

Joe

Edited May 16, 2012 by ubonjoe