B visa validity after extension of stay issued.

[sapson]

When you have your initial B visa with your school name on it under the comments section, its my understanding that even if you quit or are fired the day after its issue and receiving the 90 day permission to stay., your entitled  to stay quite  legally for the duration of that 90 days even / though youve stopped working.

 

However if after one month your company/school sorts out your work permit and it is issued along with the extension  of stay for the length of your contract and after month 5 etc you quit /fired you officially have to leave the country etc .

 

But if you are fired/quit lets say 2 days after getting your work permit and extension of stay and for example still have 1 or 2 months left of the initial 90 day permission to stay............can you indeed do that and stay for the remaining 1or2 month legally, or will you have to leave immediately based on the fact that an extension of stay has already been issued?? regardless of the time remaining of the intial B visa 90 days permission to stay stamp.

 

 

 

Many thanks

 

[perthperson]

Visas are not (except in very unusual circumstances) ever cancelled and remain valid until they expire.

[ubonjoe]

If you entered on a non-b visa and then extended the 90 day entry of it the original permit to stay would no longer be valid for stay since you would have a new permit to stay from the extension.

[SWW]

Correct me if I am wrong, but a single-entry visa is used as soon as you enter the country. Upon entry, you are given permission to stay for 90 days (for a non-immigrant visa), and if you get an extension to that, the original 90-day permission is replaced by the extension.

 

If you had a multiple-entry non-immigrant visa, then no matter what happens you could always go out and come back in to get another 90-day permission to stay. But for a single-entry visa you are out of luck because it was already used.

 

An extension of stay replaces any previous permission you had to stay, and so if you were to quit as soon as you got your work permit and then had your extension cancelled, you then effectively have no more permission to stay - regardless of how long your 'original' permission to stay was, because that was replaced by the (now cancelled) extension.

Edited July 18, 2017 by SWW

[sapson]

21 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

If you entered on a non-b visa and then extended the 90 day entry of it the original permit to stay would no longer be valid for stay since you would have a new permit to stay from the extension.

This I wish to clarify so if the work permit and extension of stay is issued one month into the 90 days tou have to exit immediately if employment ceases.

 

However if the extension of stay work and permit have not been issued even if employment ceases after 1 week you can still remain in Thailand legally for the duration of the ninety days.

 

So if continuation of employment is in doubt best not to do the extension of stay work permit until the last week of the B visa 90 day validity.