Ed Visa For 15 Months/34000 Baht, No Need To Go To The Embassy/Immigration

[Maestro]

If one of the documents the school gives you for your application for extension of stay is a letter from the Ministry of Education (MoE), the school had to give MoE a copy of your attendance record and without sufficient attendance the MoE would not have given the letter.

[falang07]

I am sure they can make any attendance record they want otherwise there would not be so many farangs extending the ED visa for a few years already but not able to say many words in Thai

[Maestro]

How about if student wants to take 3 week holiday to someplace. Is it somehow possible with these 100% legal ed-visa language etc setups?

The Ministry of Education does not require 100% attendance to issue the requisite letter for immigration. Allowance is made for the occasional absence from class. You school will be able to give you details

[Maestro]

It is legal if Immigration get a cut from school

Do you really have to ask? Of course, it is illegal to offer a government official a bribe, and it is illegal for an official to accept a bribe.

[poanoi]

I didn't ask, and of course it is standard pattaya immigration procedure.

I know for a fact

[Demodokos]

I'm planning to get a tourist visa for my next trip, and once in Thailand, i will apply for a ED visa (in a border country, which on better?)

I am wondering how i to do with the plane ticket? I don't think i can get a visa with a 1 way ticket, and if i take a round trip, i would waiste my return ticket, as it would be for a 3 months trip. I didn't see any "open" ticket available.

How did you do?

[Maestro]

Most Thai consulates do not ask for a plane ticket with a visa application. Which consulate are you planning to use?

[Demodokos]

Most Thai consulates do not ask for a plane ticket with a visa application. Which consulate are you planning to use?

For the tourist visa, i usually send my passport to a company that will take care of the application. If i remember correctly, they work with the Thaï ambassy in Paris.

Maybe Consulate or ambassy can issue visa without return ticket, but i read somewhere that it will be the airline that will not allow me to get on board if i don't have a return ticket. Is it false?

[WebBKK123]

I think here is some mix up.

You can get an ED visa and do 90 day reports via mail.

No clue what the fuzz is about.

[Maestro]

WebBKK123, it depends where and what you study. For the study of Thai at a private language school immigration issues extensions of stay of only 90 days at a time.

[lopburi3]

A return ticket should never be required by airline - but for travel without a visa airline can require on onward ticket during the allowed stay to a country you can enter without further documents being required. For travel with a visa there is no such requirement.