Hand2HandCombat does it in Chiang Mai. You can sign up for 1 year training and qualify for a ED Visa.
 Great school, but no beach in Chiang Mai.

 

Anyone know of or recommend any, where I can find a list of similar Martial Art schools in any beach cities?

 

Also, anyone know the cost of a ED Visa from Laos?

Edited December 27, 20169 yr by B0nkers

7 hours ago, B0nkers said:

Also, anyone know the cost of a ED Visa from Laos?

The fee for a single entry non immigrant visa is 2000 baht.

Moved to the education forum.

You may notice the ED 'school' is run by the Kwalia fort.. Since the Junta came in selling ED visas has become a restricted profession.. 

 

Hence unless you can find another army group on the take, you may struggle. 

17 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

The fee for a single entry non immigrant visa is 2000 baht.

Moved to the education forum.

 Single entry, is that good for only 2 months does that mean I wouldn't be able to leave for a year without going through the whole process again? I kinda need to pop over to the Philippines at some point for a couple weeks

9 hours ago, B0nkers said:

 Single entry, is that good for only 2 months does that mean I wouldn't be able to leave for a year without going through the whole process again? I kinda need to pop over to the Philippines at some point for a couple weeks

 

I've not heard of them giving out multiple entry ED visas for a few years now. With a single entry you'll get 90 days on an ED, then after that you need to go to immigration to extend it. With Thai they ask you a few questions in Thai, maybe make you do a bit of reading and writing. With something like this I guess you'd just take the forms from the school and get the extension hopefully for another 90 days.

 

Then if you need to go outside of the country you'd need to get a re-entry permit which is 1000 per time or 3900 for a multiple entry. I think the permit only lasts the length of your extension though so it's probably not worth getting multiple.

3 hours ago, TheRascal said:

 

I've not heard of them giving out multiple entry ED visas for a few years now. With a single entry you'll get 90 days on an ED, then after that you need to go to immigration to extend it. With Thai they ask you a few questions in Thai, maybe make you do a bit of reading and writing. With something like this I guess you'd just take the forms from the school and get the extension hopefully for another 90 days.

 

Then if you need to go outside of the country you'd need to get a re-entry permit which is 1000 per time or 3900 for a multiple entry. I think the permit only lasts the length of your extension though so it's probably not worth getting multiple.

 

Thanks. The fellow who runs it (Military Police), said they will prearrange your papers for the 90 day reporting and go with you.. like a visa agency would. They also pay for it as well. I guess it's included in the initial fee you pay for a year of training.

 

I did not realize it was a single entry scenario and have only heard of the old 2 month entry limits. First time I came was on a double entry visa, each being 2 months. 1000 is not a big deal to pay if I need to go out of country. I don;t care about the baht as much as I do having that ability without screwing up the training.

 

It seems everyone I have talked to so far immediately talk about the visa part and completely disregard the training until I bring it up, lol. Me thinks a lot of people are more concerned about finding a slippery way to stay here longer than they actually care about the purpose of the visa! I'm actually very excited about the idea of training here for a full year. Perhaps next year I'll head to Isaan for some real traditional muay thai. I used to own a gym / martial arts school many years ago, so for me this is an amazing opportunity.

 

Thanks for the feedback guy. Maybe I'll try doing this the uninformed and long way by emailing several schools. I was really hoping for a referral. Maybe this is too niche or new to be of interest for many of the forum goers here.

I don't know eff all about visas but you might want to get in touch with tiger in Phuket  tigermuaythai.com

 

Theres also sinbi not sure what level of training they provide though sinbi-muaythai.com

 

 

Edited January 3, 20179 yr by Scott