dseawarrior

Mine is a slightly different question...  

Is Live Scan Service -- to check with USA database criminal background check -- available in Thailand or a nearby country in Asia?  

Need to do for a job application in the USA...   Otherwise need to FedEx or UPS fingerprint cards back and forth across the Pacific Ocean...  

Suggestions?  

Many thanks!  

dseawarrior

Hello Everyone and happy holiday,

Is there a way to renew / re-issue a Non Immigrant B visa IN BANGKOK -- WITHOUT leaving Thailand???  

Here's my story...  I am a USA citizen teaching at a "famous" Thai high school in central Bangkok.  In May, I got a Single Entry Non Immigrant B visa at the Thai consulate in Los Angeles.   (Yes, I asked for a multiple entry visa, but at the LA consulate, they said the Thai law has recently changed and they only issue Single Entry Non Imm B visas for schools where minors are taught - new Thai immigration law - how convenient...)  

I left USA on May 15, arrived in BKK on May 16th and expected to start teaching on May 17th...  With the Red Shirt crisis, school started 2 weeks late on May 31st...  

Since May 31, I have worked dutifully for this school (along with other Farang English teachers waiting for the School administrators to help finalize our work permit -- yes, the school administrators dragged their feet due to their confusion and disorganization...  Yes, a "typical" Thai situation, I know...  

On July 8th, I had to leave Thailand to go back to the USA for family emergency...  So in leaving Thailand, I USED my Single Entry Non Immigrant B visa...  I informed my employer that I would likely be out of Thailand for a few days...   Luckily, the family emergency has stabilized...

I returned to Thailand on July 12th and entered on a TOURIST visa...  Last Friday, I tried to apply for Work Permit -- at Ministry of Labor -- and they said "no can do" because Non Immigrant B Visa has been used and I am on a tourist visa now...  

Talked with Immigration and they said I had to leave Thailand and apply for a new Non Immigrant B Visa...  

My question is:  "Is there a way to renew / re-issue a Non Imm B in Bangkok -- WITHOUT leaving Thailand???"

I am on a small salary at my current school and cannot afford to fly to Laos or Cambodia or wherever to get this paperwork done...  To me, it seems like this paperwork could be done in Bangkok...   The school says they will arrange for the proper paperwork...  (The Thai admin at the school are slow but they can see the urgency in my situation -- And, other Farang teachers at this same school have other similar but unrelated visa problems -- mostly due to the school's slowness, inefficiency and ignorance in changes in Thai immigration and labor law...)

Any suggestions from anyone knowledgeable about this kind of situation?   (I will be asking a Thai friend to call Immigration tomorrow when their offices re-open after the long weekend.)

If I do have to leave the country, where do people suggest as being most economical and efficient???

All the best and many, many thanks for any help...

dseawarrior