Do We Really Need Recommendation Letter For O Visa

[phadthai]

Hi,

I have thai gf now and plan to marry her not in the near future but maybe in a year or 2. i am a singaporean.

i am planning to stay over there and i read somewhere online that i need a recommendation letter from a company that tell me i was offered a job in thailand to apply for a 1 year multiple visit visa.

Do i really need that? currently i don't work for any company and planning to have my own business and do a number of earnings online. Do i really have to find a job in order for me to stay in BKK in future?

what other ways do i have to be able to stay in thailand?

Johnny

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Hi,

I have thai gf now and plan to marry her not in the near future but maybe in a year or 2. i am a singaporean.

i am planning to stay over there and i read somewhere online that i need a recommendation letter from a company that tell me i was offered a job in thailand to apply for a 1 year multiple visit visa.

Do i really need that? currently i don't work for any company and planning to have my own business and do a number of earnings online. Do i really have to find a job in order for me to stay in BKK in future?

what other ways do i have to be able to stay in thailand?

Johnny

Your eligibility for the appropriate Non-Immigrant O visa comes once you get married. You can try for a business visa, but Thai Consulates and Embassies in this region are gonna want some sort of evidence as to your proposal.

[asinah]

Hi Phadthai (Johnny),

Actually it would be better if you would get a letter but as a Singaporean you don't really need to worry much. (My wife and daughters are Singaporean too and sometime they have a letter and sometime not but they always get a visa)

* 1) If you have a Singaporean company it is sufficient to ask the Singaporean company to issue a letter and you should have no problem in getting your first 3 month.

After that I would highly suggest you to register with the consular section at the Singapore Embassy and the contact person would be Mr. Yap. He is a well respected guy at the Thai immigration HQ.

Once you register yourself at the Singapore embassy you will be advised to go for a meeting with the Singapore Thai Chamber of Commerce. If you are interested of setting up a company in Thailand they would have the right contacts to Thai and Singapore lawyers in Bangkok to get your company out of the ground. Go for that meeting. I never believed in joining chambers but the Singapore Thai Chamber of Commerce gives you many networking opportunities to a lot of large Thai companies that can open some doors.

Any way as a Singaporean the doors are very wide open and staying in this country is not a problem at all even if the budget is limited.

If you need more details send me an email.

Regards,

BTW: thaivisa.com is a good place to get yourself familar with how things in Thailand works.

[phadthai]

After that I would highly suggest you to register with the consular section at the Singapore Embassy and the contact person would be Mr. Yap. He is a well respected guy at the Thai immigration HQ.

Once you register yourself at the Singapore embassy you will be advised to go for a meeting with the Singapore Thai Chamber of Commerce. If you are interested of setting up a company in Thailand they would have the right contacts to Thai and Singapore lawyers in Bangkok to get your company out of the ground. Go for that meeting. I never believed in joining chambers but the Singapore Thai Chamber of Commerce gives you many networking opportunities to a lot of large Thai companies that can open some doors.

Any way as a Singaporean the doors are very wide open and staying in this country is not a problem at all even if the budget is limited.

If you need more details send me an email.

Regards,

BTW: thaivisa.com is a good place to get yourself familar with how things in Thailand works.

You mean Mr Yap at the sinagpore embassy in BKK at the thai immigration?

Phadthai

[chuang]

Hi phadthai...other options are....

1..if you are over 50 years of age, you could apply for a Non-Immigrant "O-A"

visa, commonly known as the retirement visa from the Thai Embassy in

Singapore..provided you you can show them statement of account from a

Singapore bank showing 800,000 baht in equvilent. etc, etc.

Forms are avaliable at the embassy.

2..or you can apply for a tourist visa ( 60-days stay ). At the end of the 60-days

stay do a visa-run at the border and you get another 30-days stay.

Altogether 90 days, come back to Singapore and apply for a tourist visa again,

do it over and over again....

I dont think you have other options....goodluck...

[phadthai]

Hi Guys,

I am 30 and planning of marrying my thai gf in a year or 2.

This is what i found out from other guys:

I am planning to do a test stay for 1 year in BKK to adapt to life there.

i can apply for a 12 month multiple entry tourist visa. Do a visa run every 3 months till the 12 month expire. I guess i apply in Singapore.

To get married:

i need to have a non-imm O visa (1year) with all the documents. and of course need to show that i have 400,000 bhat in my bank account.

That is all, is that? IS the information i get that is correct? or do i need anything else?

Phad thai (still wanted to know more, so many people giving different answer)

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Look through the past threads here first.