I am currently on a non-o multi entry. Although it's only been 9 months I have left and reentered Thailand 3 times already since getting the visa, and in a week my current stamp will expire. Am i right in thinking that my Visa expires after having 4 separate periods within the country ? Is it possible to get another extension somehow ?

I was planning to go for a new non-o next week. But just this morning the local school offered me a teaching role, but the thing is I wouldn't be starting until next month (hopefully early but my guess is probably not) as they said they have to sort out the contract and what not.

So I am not sure what I should do. Should I make a few border runs for the 15 day periods and wait for the paperwork to get sorted or can I extend my current visa somehow or do i need to do something else ?

Appreciate any thoughts, not quite sure what to do at the moment.

Thanks.

ps: Is there some good clear info somewhere on work permits / (non b ??) because I can't seem to find any good info anywhere and I am sure I will have to push the school a bit and tell them what they need to do.

Am i right in thinking that my Visa expires after having 4 separate periods within the country ?

No. You can make as many entries as you want. Each entry a maximum of 90 days.

You can do border runs up until the Visa expires. Do one a day or two before expiry to get another 90 days giving a total of almost 15 months.

On what basis you you have that visa? You may be able to extend 60 days but a simple crossing will get 90 days - there is no limit on the number of entries (only that last entry is made while visa is still valid) and every entry gets a new 90 day stay.

That's great news.

It's based on marriage. Non Immigrant O - No of entry - M. It's just that I see no expiry date on the actual visa sticker.

So if I wanted to, as my first entry on the visa was September 6 2011, I could technically do a border run now, and then on September 5 do another one and have 15 months total ?

Thanks for the replies.

There is an issue date and a use by/before date one year later on the visa - you must use by that date to obtain a new 90 day stay. First entry has nothing to do with it.

A non immigrant Multi-entry vist.....that's why the "M"..... is not based on any set number of entry/exits.

It has an issue date, and an expiration ("use before") date.

Normally those are one year apart.

For example my (now expired) non immigrant M visa was issued on 16 October 2010.

It therefore expired 15 October 2011.

If I had chosen to (I didn't) I could have left October 14th 2011 and re-entered the same day.

I would have been stamped back in for 90 days....or until sometime in the 2nd week of Jan 2012,

Even though my original visa expired on 15 October 2011 that last entry stamp made it legal to stay in Thailand until that entry stamp expired.

That's how you can stretch a Multi entry visa issued for 12 months into an approximately 15 months stay.