First time poster with no idea. My facts are that my company want me to move to Thailand. My company is well experienced with making mistakes with visa's I.e my move to the US and other country's.

Looking at the the various websites brought me to this site where it was made fairly clear that it would be a 'B' visa for myself. My question is what type of visa would my family be looking for.

If this has been addressed before apologies, if its in the wrong area again apologies.

Look forward to the forums response, (be gentle)

Unless you are going to be working for a Thai company in Thailand (with work permit) and able to obtain one year extensions of stay there is no provision. You could get that B visa for travel and business meeting but not to be working here and family would not be anything but tourists.

If your company wants you and your family to move to Thailand and work for them, then you should ask your company to arrange the necessary visas and work permit to support their request, not leave it "up to you"!

Thanks lopburi3 and Wayned. They most likely will take care of the visa's. I would just like to know how it would work for them. I would presumably have to get the company to renew the visa every year. Would it be similar to the US in that their visa would be similar to mine and linked to my visa. Thanks for the quick response.

You get a nonB visa, they get a non-O visa. Once in Thailand and you have a work permit (and an income of at least 50,000 baht a mnth) you get 1 yearly extensions from immigration and they get matching 1 yearly extensions as your dependents. (Children must be under 20 years of age to be a dependent).

You just show your own extension and show that they are your family. (wedding certificate and birth certificate(s)

If your coming with kids, you really need to check out education. Private education in International schools is extorinate. 500,000Baht a child at most of them.

Does company already have presence here?

If in the US you could get the B visa and non-o's for family with letter from company stating they are relocating you to here for work.

Contact one of the honorary consulates listed at bottom of this webpage for info. http://www.visetkaew.com/wp/directories/

Edited March 25, 201313 yr by ubonjoe

If your coming with kids, you really need to check out education. Private education in International schools is extorinate. 500,000Baht a child at most of them.

Thanks for the information, I am amazed at the cost for the schools and could be a sticking point. 30,000 Euro for the 2 kids for a year. Might be cheaper to send them to a prep school in England!

Does company already have presence here?

If in the US you could get the B visa and non-o's for family with letter from company stating they are relocating you to here for work.

Contact one of the honorary consulates listed at bottom of this webpage for info. http://www.visetkaew.com/wp/directories/

I will look into that thanks for the information.

If your coming with kids, you really need to check out education. Private education in International schools is extorinate. 500,000Baht a child at most of them.

Thanks for the information, I am amazed at the cost for the schools and could be a sticking point. 30,000 Euro for the 2 kids for a year. Might be cheaper to send them to a prep school in England!

Wait till you see the price of Branston.

If your company wants you and your family to move to Thailand and work for them, then you should ask your company to arrange the necessary visas and work permit to support their request, not leave it "up to you"!

This is bad advice. If the company or it's minimum wage Thai admin staff that makes a mistake, then it's the applicant that bears the consequences not the company.

Edited March 28, 201313 yr by Time Traveller

If your company wants you and your family to move to Thailand and work for them, then you should ask your company to arrange the necessary visas and work permit to support their request, not leave it "up to you"!

This is bad advice. If the company or it's minimum wage Thai admin staff that makes a mistake, then it's the applicant that bears the consequences not the company.

not all bad advice, I have never had to arrrange anything, the company does do it all for me and they have Thai admin staff....if the advice is...if the company is not sure or confident with the WP system would be better to get a legal company involved who know the system...this would be better advice

If your company wants you and your family to move to Thailand and work for them, then you should ask your company to arrange the necessary visas and work permit to support their request, not leave it "up to you"!

This is bad advice. If the company or it's minimum wage Thai admin staff that makes a mistake, then it's the applicant that bears the consequences not the company.

not all bad advice, I have never had to arrrange anything, the company does do it all for me and they have Thai admin staff....if the advice is...if the company is not sure or confident with the WP system would be better to get a legal company involved who know the system...this would be better advice

The problem is, how is he to know if the admin staff knows even if they say they do? I've worked at companies where the HR admin staff had only been hired a month before and had no clue, consequently screwed up the extension of stay and work permit, which resulted in a fine. Some companies actually hire law firms to for these issues for expat staff as they don't trust their own HR staff.

If your company wants you and your family to move to Thailand and work for them, then you should ask your company to arrange the necessary visas and work permit to support their request, not leave it "up to you"!

This is bad advice. If the company or it's minimum wage Thai admin staff that makes a mistake, then it's the applicant that bears the consequences not the company.

not all bad advice, I have never had to arrrange anything, the company does do it all for me and they have Thai admin staff....if the advice is...if the company is not sure or confident with the WP system would be better to get a legal company involved who know the system...this would be better advice

The problem is, how is he to know if the admin staff knows even if they say they do? I've worked at companies where the HR admin staff had only been hired a month before and had no clue, consequently screwed up the extension of stay and work permit, which resulted in a fine. Some companies actually hire law firms to for these issues for expat staff as they don't trust their own HR staff.

I did experience the similar thing in the US, Thanks again to all those that posted.