Issangeorge

All you fellow teachers out there that have been wondering why teacher salaries in Thailand seem to be falling, it is because of companies that are recruiting teachers right out of collage and offering them the following;  Monthly salary of 16,000 - 20,000 Baht ($500-650 USD) 5 month program: $1,900. Wow what a great opportunity for some young innocent teacher. You can come to Thailand work for 5 months and probably teach 20 hours a week, which would mean at least 40 hours a week with prep time and for this you can make from $500 to $650 a month. Or over a 5 month contract from $2,500 up to $3,250, the only catch is that to do this you have to pay the recruiting company $1,900 so you end up with from $600 to perhaps $1,350. The 5 month contract works out to about 21 weeks so that works out to from $28.57 to $154.76 per week or roughly about 72 cents to $3.87 an hour.  I know things are bad in the United States, but are they that bad that someone is willing to put in the hard work required by a teacher for such a low hourly wage? If you are someone considering applying for one of these jobs I suggest you think twice about it. Take that $1,900 and come to Thailand on a vacation and perhaps while you are here you can look for a decent teaching job and not make some fat cat in the States rich on your hard work. Issangeorge

I just extended my Non-immigrant "0" Visa at Sakon Nakhon. Things went very smoothly. I had of course the form and picture, copies of all my passport pages, a letter from the Canadian Embassy showing I had a monthly income of over ฿65,000, and copies of my tax forms from Canada to prove it. They then asked me for a copy of my wife's ID card and her House Registration Papers (they did not ask for a copy of our marriage certificate). Then they asked for a copy of my bank book, that's it. I would like to thank the poster on the Immigration forum who mentioned they wanted a copy of your bank book, otherwise I would not have had it. It didn't seem to matter how much money was in the bank. I deposited ฿30,000 that day for a total of ฿30,750. They extended my Visa for another year and marked RETIREMENT on it. All in all everything went very well. Issangeorge.

I just extended my Non-immigrant "0" Visa at Sakon Nakhon. Things went very smoothly. I had of course the form and picture, copies of all my passport pages, a letter from the Canadian Embassy showing I had a monthly income of over ฿65,000, and copies of my tax forms from Canada to prove it. They then asked me for a copy of my wife's ID card and her House Registration Papers (they did not ask for a copy of our marriage certificate). Then they asked for a copy of my bank book, that's it. I would like to thank the poster on the Immigration forum who mentioned they wanted a copy of your bank book, otherwise I would not have had it. It didn't seem to matter how much money was in the bank. I deposited ฿30,000 that day for a total of ฿30,750. They extended my Visa for another year and marked RETIREMENT on it. All in all everything went very well. Issangeorge.

I just extended my Non-immigrant "0" Visa at Sakon Nakhon. Things went very smoothly. I had of course the form and picture, copies of all my passport pages, a letter from the Canadian Embassy showing I had a monthly income of over ฿65,000, and copies of my tax forms from Canada to prove it. They then asked me for a copy of my wife's ID card and her House Registration Papers (they did not ask for a copy of our marriage certificate). They then asked for a copy of my bank book, that's it. I would like to thank the poster who mentioned they wanted a copy of your bank book, otherwise I would not have had it. It didn't seem to matter how much money was in the bank. I deposited ฿30,000 that day for a total of ฿30,750. They extended my Visa for another year and marked RETIREMENT on it. All in all everything went very well. Issangeorge.

I have to do a Visa extension run before the end of the month and I want to send an e-mail to the Sakhon Nakorn Immigration Office to make sure I have all the documents needed for a retirement visa. The address posted on the government immigration site does not work. Does anyone have one that works. Thanks. Issangeorge.