Employment, study and family each have a letter, and the letter decides everything that follows: which documents the post abroad asks for, what you may do once here, and how the stay is extended. Asia Relocation Thailand confirms the category first, then builds the e-Visa file for you and for the people travelling with you.
A non-immigrant visa for Thailand is not one product with three flavours. The B is granted against a job or a business that exists on paper, the ED against enrolment at a named institution, the O against a family relationship or, past fifty, against the means to live here without working. Each purpose has its own document list.
The mistake we repair most often is a category chosen for the length of stay it seems to promise. The visa itself is short, counted in months; the year comes later, from the Immigration Bureau, as an extension granted against the same purpose. A file built on the wrong letter stops at that second step.
Asia Relocation Thailand confirms the category against what you can actually document, prepares the e-Visa application to the list of the post that will handle it, and files the spouse and children on the same calendar as the principal applicant, from an immigration desk in Bangkok.
A non-immigrant visa is the entry ticket. The permit to work, the extension and the visitor's alternative each have their own page.
If the category you want is not the one your documents support, we say so before the fee is paid.
One household, one coordinator: the four files are sequenced together.
What the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asks for changes with the purpose.
The B issued against a job: the post asks for the Ministry of Labour's approval of the work permit application, or the existing permit at renewal. Single entry; the year comes from the extension granted in Thailand once the permit exists.
The same letter for someone who does not take a job: an invitation from the company in Thailand, single entry for one trip or multiple entry for a year of visits. No employment.
Enrolment at a school, a university or a licensed short course, proven by a letter from the institution and, for schools, from the education authority. Leave the course and the ground for the visa goes with it.
A spouse, a child or a parent of someone resident here, Thai or foreign. The relationship is proven by civil documents, and the financial evidence follows a different rule depending on whether the family is Thai.
A short Non-O, a one-year O-A with medical certificate and insurance, or a five-year O-X on a larger deposit. All three exclude employment of any kind, which the embassy states plainly.
What you will do in Thailand, who is coming, and what you can prove today. The category follows, and we say when the documents do not support the one you had in mind.
From the employer, the institution or the family member, in the form the post expects. This is the document that carries the file.
Account, form, uploads and fee on the official system. The post covering your residence sets the list and the timing; we work from its current requirements.
You enter on the visa; the long stay is applied for at the Immigration Bureau against the same purpose, on a date we have already put in the calendar.
A B for the employee, an O for the spouse and children, filed together so that the family lands with the same permission as the person who was hired.
A university place in Bangkok, a school year, a licensed Thai-language course: the ED is issued against the letter, which has to say what the post wants.
The O built on a marriage or a Thai child, with a financial rule of its own. The one category where the family's nationality changes the document list.
Chiang Mai, Hua Hin or the islands, on an O, an O-A or an O-X, chosen by what can be documented and by how long you intend to stay before the next renewal.
The visa is issued by the Thai post covering your country of residence. The extension is handled in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Pattaya or wherever you settle.
Two administrations, two places. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through its posts abroad, decides the visa on the e-Visa system, and each post publishes its own list and lead time; we work from the one that will handle your file.
Once you are in Thailand the file moves to the Immigration Bureau office for your province: Bangkok for the capital, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Pattaya and others elsewhere. Practice differs between them, and our Bangkok desk confirms it in person.
The permit from the Department of Employment, filed with your employer, and kept aligned with the visa at every renewal and every change of job.
Work permits in Thailand →Every route into Thailand and every obligation once you are here, from a scouting trip to a decade-long stay, on one page.
Visa & immigration services in Thailand →Category confirmed, supporting letter drafted, e-Visa filed from your country, extension already in the calendar. One coordinator for the whole household.
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