If you are going to stay in Thailand for a long time, Thai Visa & Law Consulting is here to offer you representative services for visa application/acquisition. If you are not up to the requirements, please consult us. Also please consult us if some trouble occurred while staying in Thailand after acquiring a visa. Now enjoy your life in Thailand with peace of mind!! (A service price list is shown below.)
Using this duration of stay, Thai Visa & Law Consulting assists you with visa application at the Immigration in Thailand.
Retirement visa, business visa (as well as work permit), employed person’s family visa, marriage visa, guardian visa, student visa, investment visa.
In acquiring a Thai visa, there is no need for taking trouble of applying to the Embassy of the Kingdom of Thailand in your country before entering Thailand. Depending on the objective visa, conditions for the documents required may be more lenient in Thailand, which will economize time and cost.
A visa for a traveller who wants to stay in Thailand longer than the visa-less duration of stay. A tourist visa is to be acquired outside Thailand.
If you acquire single entry, you will be granted a 60-day stay. You will be granted stay of a total of 90 days together with an application for extension of stay at the Immigration. (There is an acquisition limit, it is said that it is up to about 4 times that acquisition is continuously possible in the same place.)
Multiple entry became available in November 2015. Its expiration date is half a year, permission of stay per time is 60 days. It is possible to enter/exit the country as many times as you like before expiration. A multiple entry tourist visa is to be applied for/acquired only in one’s own country. It cannot be applied for/acquired in Thailand’s neighbouring countries. Double entry was abolished as a result of multiple entry having become available.
Major visa categories include, depending on the purpose, student visa (ED), business visa (B), investment visa (BOI), category O (“O” for Others) including retirement visa, employed person’s family visa, marriage visa, guardian visa, medical visa.
1 Permission to stay for 90 days at first-time application.
There is an examination period of 14 days.
2 Permission to stay for 1 year by renewal procedure. (Thereafter renewal every time)
There is an examination period of 30 days. (Retirement visa intermediately available)
After examination, a stamp for 11 months is affixed.
※ In case of first-time application in Thailand, the number of remaining days of permitted stay is 15 days (21 days depending on the jurisdictional area).
※ The renewal procedure may be taken from 30 days before the deadline day.
※ If the remaining period of validity of the passport is short, it is only possible to extend the stay until that deadline. A visa is to be renewed after applying for a new passport and taking a visa transcription procedure. (For applying to the Immigration, a certificate from one’s country’s embassy, originals and copies of the old and new passports, a TM6 card are necessary. Whether reentry permit transcribable or not depending on the duty officer’s discretion, re-acquisition may become necessary.)
※ If a visa was canceled, the deadline for leaving Thailand becomes within 7 days.
When working in Thailand, it becomes necessary to acquire a provisional residence permit’s business visa and, at the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare’s Labour Supervisory Station (Labour Station), a work permit.
The application requirements include a capital of 2 million baht per non-Thai applicant, employment of 4 Thais per non-Thai applicant, the amount of salary not being less than the amount designated per non-Thai applicant’s country, declaration of tax affairs/social insurance, etc.
What must be brought with one from one’s country is a graduation certificate in English.
The acquisition takes about 14 days for a business visa and about 2 business days for a work permit.
For a business traveler, working for within 15 days per stay in Thailand is granted without a work permit.
Application is to be made within 3 days after entering Thailand. Application while staying in Thailand is once only. The number of times of notification per year is not limited if there is an urgent and emergent situation. Notification is possible at the Ministry of Labour, provincial labor office, one-stop service center, Suvarnabhumi International Airport.
A family visa for an employed person who has acquired a work permit in Thailand.
For application, a copy of one’s family register and company-related documents are necessary. The permitted duration of stay applies with modifications to that of the employed person. If an employed person finishes a resident officer’s work in Thailand and returns to his or her country but family stay in Thailand for school, therefore, a child switches to a student visa and a parent to a guardian visa.
If acquiring one in Thailand, it is essential that the employed person’s visa’s remaining duration of stay permitted should be 90 days or more.
A visa for one who has a Thai spouse.
For an application, certification of holding 400 thousand baht or more on the bank passbook for 2 months or more or income verification of 40 thousand baht or more per month for 3 months (not necessary if a female), reporting with family. Depending on the order of marriage procedure, a copy of one’s family register is necessary if one’s country is first and a certificate of legal capacity to contract marriage if Thailand is first.
A marriage visa has a merit of being able to acquire a work permit.
A guardian’s visa for bringing up a child who is studying in Thailand with a student visa.
For an application, the child’s certificate of student status, a copy of one’s family register, certification of holding 500 thousand baht or more on the bank passbook for 3 months or more, etc.
In case of a language school, the first-time application is to be made outside Thailand. Thereafter the student visa is to be renewed every 90 days at the Immigration in Thailand. The period renewable on a continuing basis is 1 year at the longest. Under the military government since 2014, using a student visa for years for the sole purpose of staying in Thailand for a long time has been restricted, so it is now difficult.
In case of an international school, university, to be renewed every year.
A visa for a person who spends a long-stay life in Thailand. The qualification for application is being 50 years of age or older with working not being the purpose.
There are 3 methods of asset verification.
1 Certification of having a deposit balance of 800 thousand baht or more in a Thai bank (holding for 2 months or more at first-time application; holding for 3 months or more at renewal) and of foreign-currency remittance (or certification of bringing in or exchanging foreign currency).
2 Certification of receiving a pension of a monthly amount of 65,000 baht or more.
3 If not up to the deposit balance of 800 thousand baht, eligible if a total amount with the pension for 1 year being added is 800 thousand baht or more.
Investment Visa
For a person who is under 50 years of age, being a requirement for acquiring a retirement visa, there is a visa for which he or she can qualify by investing 10 million baht or more in Thailand. You cannot work with this visa.
As a requirement, purchasing a condominium of 10 million baht or more (certification of remittance is necessary), a time deposit for 3 years or more in a Thai bank, a Thai national bond or even a combination of these.
Permanent residence visa
For the permanent resident status in Thailand, the number of acquirers per year is provided per country. The permanent residence visa of Thailand is not for a long stayer but for an employed person or a person who has a Thai family. One’s daily conversational ability in Thai language is called in question.
The application period being from November to January every year and the day of starting acceptance being different each year, the period covers only about 2 weeks. Let’s begin preparing the documents required in good time.
A permanent residence visa is invalidated as being overseas for 1 year or more. Major application requirements
A 180-day visa being acquired after acceptance of application and thereafter it is to be renewed until a permanent residence visa is issued. There are interviews in Thai language at dates several months after, which are to be designated. (Primary and then, at a later date, secondary) From 20 minutes to 1 hour. The public office’s service charge at acquisition is 191,400 baht for a wage-worker and 95,700 baht for a person with a Thai family.
Reentry permit
Once you exit Thailand, your acquired visa falls into abeyance even if its permitted duration of stay might be remaining. To avoid this, it is necessary to acquire a reentry permit before exiting Thailand.
There are two types of reentry permit, i.e. single permit (1 time only of entry into/exit from the country; public office’s service charge 1,000 baht) and multiple permit (entry into/exit from the country as many times as you like; public office’s service charge 3,800 baht).
The reentry permit’s period of validity applies with modifications to that of the visa. On the occasions of first-time application and renewal, necessary per examination period and period after examination
Therefore, it is to be considered, in view of the period or the year’s plan, which of single and multiple costs less public office’s service charge.
A reentry permit is acquirable at the Immigration at the timing of visa acquisition or at Suvarnabhumi International Airport before exiting the country.
90-day report
A non-Thai who has a Thai visa is obliged to report his or her place of residence to the Immigration when staying in Thailand for 90 days or more in a row. If having exited Thailand, the number of days is recounted from the day of reentry into Thailand.
The report is to be made between 15 days before and 7 days after the 90th day at the competent Immigration to which a visa was applied for.
Also, in case of a breach of the reporting deadline having passed, a fine is issued. Such a fine is 2,000 baht if declared by oneself and, if found by a policeman, could be 5,000 baht.
A receipt of the 90-day report, which becomes necessary at the next time, should be kept in your passport not to lose it.
Notification of change of address
If you moved to Bangkok with a visa acquired in another province, you have to at first notify a change of address and then apply for a 90-day report.
For application, a copy of the rental agreement or the certificate of title is necessary.
Agreement on overstay (illegal stay) in Thailand
If up to 40 days at the time of exiting Thailand, the fine is 500 baht per day. (Maximum 20 thousand baht)
Thailand entry prohibition period per period of overstay (Blacklisted)
90 days or more・・1 year, 1 year or more・・3 years, 3 years or more・・5 years, 5 years or more・・10 years
If found during an on-street police check
Less than 1 year・・5 years, 1 year or more・・10 years
If you are in trouble of having overstayed for long for unavoidable reasons, please consult us.
Location of the Immigration Bureau (Immigration: Toomoo in Thai language) in Bangkok
Sub-Division 1, Bangkok Immigration Division, Immigration Bureau,
Building B, Bangkok Government Center, 120 Moo 3, Soi 7, Changwattana Road, Tungsonghong, Laksi, Bangkok 10210 (in the direction of Don Mueang International Airport, north of the city center)
Reception hours 8:30 ~ 12:00, 13:00 ~ 16:30 TEL: 02-141-9889
How to go from Mo Chit Station (BTS)
Ministry of Labour Building,
Mitmaitri Rd., Din Daeng, Din Daeng, Bangkok 10400
How to access: About 1.5 km from Victory Monument Station (BTS), Phra Rama 9 Station (MRT)
**If you need to apply for/renew a Thai visa, work permit, please contact Thai Visa & Law Consulting.
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