cost,documents,process info needed for long stay cambodian visa

[dirtycash]

what is the cost of a visa to cambodia considering i may want to stay long term ( over 1 year ) i am from uk, i am 47 year old man , i am married to thai, i have chld with thai wife. i understand it is now very very difficult to remain in thailand because of new visa rules, cambodia is an option maybe ?

can anyone give me some info which may help me . thanks

[Sheryl]

First of all, need to come in on a regular ("E") visa and not a tourist visa. Cost of that recently increased to $35 US.

Note that the "evisa" is a tourist visa so you will need to either apply for visa on arrival or get visa at a Cambodian embassy.

Once in Cambodia on a regular visa, a one year extension currently costs a little under $300 and any number of places will do it for you including more travel agents. Nothing required except your passport, a form and a picture. You don't even have to go to immigration, handler will do that for you.

As they recently raised visa fees I won't be surprised in they also raise the 1 year extension cost but AFAIK have not done so yet.

HOWEVER - it is not difficult to remain long term in Thailand if you are married to a Thai, and the new visa rules have no impact on people in that situation. What they are clamping down on is abuse of tourist visas/visa-exempt entries (meant for tourists) to live in Thailand. So I would hardly recommend moving to Cambodia for reasons of visa in your case. Need also to consider your child's education. In Thailand = free, in Cambodia unless you wanted him/her educated solely in the Khmer language, very expensive.

[Kaoboi Bebobp]

May I add, have you talked to your Thai wife about this. Most Thais don't want to go to Cambodia. Also, Cambodia is a completely different scene, some 20-30 years behind Thailand in terms of infrastructure. The capital only introduced meter taxis and a two-route bus system this year. Rents are expensive compared to Pattaya, for example, and some goods are more expensive than even in Bangkok because they have to come through Thailand.

[TheSiemReaper]

Sheryl's agent requires more paperwork than mine. I pay $285 for a one year visa. I hand over my passport and my money and I'm done.

It is true that Thais have a bad mental image of Cambodia before they come; it's worth noting that my Thai partner loved living here after she had arrived though.

Visas for all nationalities except a hardcore of about 8 (mainly African states) countries are easy in Cambodia today. It's reasonably well understood that this may and probably will change in the future - how far into the future is anyone's guess.

[dirtycash]

Sheryl says school in thailand free ? Thats first time i have heard that. I hear thailand is expensive for kids schoold

[Sheryl]

Sheryl says school in thailand free ? Thats first time i have heard that. I hear thailand is expensive for kids schoold

There is no tuition for grades 1 through 12, this has been the case for many years now. College however is not free.

The government has recently expanded the free tuition to encompass kindergarten and 2 years of pre-school but I am not sure of the status of actual implementation on that.

Private schools of course are costly. Not only the tuition, but reportedly a lot of under the table charges to get into the most prestigious ones.

[phuketrichard]

thai school TUITION might be free

but u need pay for uniforms,

books, all ur supplies an most likely ur test result scores. and a "gift" to your teacher

[dirtycash]

Are thai state schools ok for a 5 year old girl. She is both thai and farang. She has spent 3 years in uk school.

[phuketrichard]

if u want her to grow up an be thai they are fine. (does she speak thai?)

otherwise u need a private bi lingual school

phuket tuition starts around 5-8,000 baht/month for that age

My daughter went to thai school ONLY till she was 5, than she went to the Montessori school, than transferred to a full international school at 8 years old