OK...

There are dozens of threads on the above subject - vote now so we can guage roughly how many people this might afftect...

Jez

Mods - can you please help me out and add in an extra category?

"I live in Thailand on a Non-Immigrant B Visa with a Work Permit (visa run every 365 days)"

Sorry - thought it would be better to split long-term Bs and long-term WPs - cheers! Jez

Neither category.

I was MAKING PLANS to live in Thailand on an investment visa. (I'm 41, won't qualify for the retirement visa for another 9 years.)

Now, I don't know what to do.

Maybe I'll split my time between Brazil (180 days in/180 days out), Thailand (90 days in/90 days out) and some random EU country (I have a EU passport even though I live in the U.S.).

The crackdown on visa runs doesn't annoy me, that was expected.

The abolishment of the investor visa is what throws a monkey wrench into my plans.

Interesting that the poll's already had 20 views, but only 4 votes so far...

C'mon folks - this could be genuinely informative for other members, and it is anonymous after all...

74 views and only 8 votes?

C'mon - why not help build a picture here?

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Edited September 13, 200619 yr by Jai Dee

Mods - can you please help me out and add in an extra category?

"I live in Thailand on a Non-Immigrant B Visa with a Work Permit (visa run every 365 days)"

Sorry - thought it would be better to split long-term Bs and long-term WPs - cheers! Jez

If you have a WP and do not change your employer at the end of the year (assuming WP and visa are in synch), a visa run is not necessary. Even if you change your employer, a visa run may not be necessary if everything comes together nicely.

Mods - can you please help me out and add in an extra category?

"I live in Thailand on a Non-Immigrant B Visa with a Work Permit (visa run every 365 days)"

Sorry - thought it would be better to split long-term Bs and long-term WPs - cheers! Jez

If you have a WP and do not change your employer at the end of the year (assuming WP and visa are in synch), a visa run is not necessary. Even if you change your employer, a visa run may not be necessary if everything comes together nicely.

Thanks for the info! Can we please add the extra category Mods?

Jez

Couln't you still put 800.000 Bath in a savings accout and qualify for a one year non-imm-O, or is that of the table as well?

Couln't you still put 800.000 Bath in a savings accout and qualify for a one year non-imm-O, or is that of the table as well?

That is the current amount needed to qualify for a retirement visa, but you must be over 50.

I think that people with a Non-B or a Non-O who have a Work Permit (Like me :D ) do not actually do visa runs at all.

What actually happens it the WP and Visa get evtended by a year at a time. The last Visa I got was a fwe years ago, and it keeps getting extended

Mods - can you please help me out and add in an extra category?

"I live in Thailand on a Non-Immigrant B Visa with a Work Permit (visa run every 365 days)"

Sorry - thought it would be better to split long-term Bs and long-term WPs - cheers! Jez

Poll Edited - extra category added.

What actually happens it the WP and Visa get evtended by a year at a time. The last Visa I got was a fwe years ago, and it keeps getting extended

That's how my Non-Imm B Visa and WP works too.

Agreed. There is no visa run on Non Immigrant B visas with Work Permits. There is a 90 day reporting requirement but that is usually taken care of by a secretary - no need to do much of anything.

There's a lot of misinformation around at the moment.

I still can't vote.

Closest is 'I'm on a Non-Imm B with Work Permit' but no need to visa run, ever. Surely this is the majority of work permit holders? Just extend every year?

So on the assumption that someone will just edit out the 'visa run every 365 days' bit, I will go ahead and vote that one.

Cheers,

Chanchao

Edited September 13, 200619 yr by chanchao

Poll edited (again) to add additional category to suit Chanchao, Khutan, Bendix, myself... and probably a few others as well.

Any other options?

well worth doing

but maybe another related poll.

1. will you spend more time in another country?

2. will you move to another country?

3. will you now not go ahead with an investment in Thailand?

4. have your feelings about Thailand changed?

5. how many of your friends are affected by all this?

6. are you now stuck with a condo you don't want or can't live in permanently?

7. but I'm a nice person, why do they hate me?

probably others too.

Any other options?

I live in Thailand on a Non-Immigrant O Visa with a Work Permit (extend every year)

Multi "o" Non immi works best for me and only needs a once a year visit to South Ken.

Also gives me the chance to have a coffee in the wee french cafe round by the Lycee on those cold January mornings.

Sometimes I am in and out of LOS for only a couple days at a time so MI-"o" also makes it easier.....and no need for any dosh in the bank.

Got me "ha year" D.L. sorted this year and new residence thing up in C.M.and still in the process of buying lbits of land in K.Ws name...doing a bit of Biz another and still earning a few bob here in the smoke.

Might move out there one day ..but no yet.....want my UK bus Pass first..

One you seem to have forgotten?

I live in Thailand on a Non-Immigrant O Visa (extend every year)

Edit: Just to clarify, there's no need for a work permit in order to have perpetual 1 year extensions to a 90-day Non-Immigrant O (retirement or family support) visa.

Edited September 13, 200619 yr by BlissfullyIgnorant

Agreed. There is no visa run on Non Immigrant B visas with Work Permits. There is a 90 day reporting requirement but that is usually taken care of by a secretary - no need to do much of anything.

Not accurate. This is only for those who get an Extension of Stay, which requires that the company will have minimum of 4 Thai employees (or 1 for brokers / consultants / agents) and that the foreigner receives a minimum salary according to his nationality.

There are many people on a Non-Imm-B, with a WP, that do not fulfill the above requirements and need to do 90 days visa runs. That's what I did last year.

Edited September 13, 200619 yr by ~G~

I think the choices need to be expanded to really make the poll meaningful. For example:

I am married and live in Thailand on consecutive 30 day visas, BUT I do not work in Thailand.

In other words, when I am working, I am over there, and when I am not, I am over here. I am sure there is a more concise way of stating the above for a poll, but that is the gist of it.

It makes no sense for me to get the marriage visa, because then I have to pay taxes on "bogus income" and that ridiculous "marriage tax" and I am not old enough for age based visas.