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I have posted twice recently.
I am single, with a Non Imm O multiple entry visa.

I have a new job and my company is getting a work permit for me, but the Labour Department won't issue a work permit to me with my Non Imm O visa. They require a Non Imm B.

Cut a long story short, having checked with the authorities it as been confirmed that one way to turn my Non Imm O visa into a Non Imm B visa is to fly out of then back into this country in an evening via KL, get a "30 day tourist on arrival" visa stamp in my passport, which can be turned into a Non Imm B at Chaeng Wattana in 21 days.

Question is: will I have any problems at Airport Immigration, when I want a "30 day tourist on arrival" visa stamp in my passport, but i still have a valid Non Imm O Multiple Entry Visa in the same passport. if so, any tips to avoid this?


Just to anticipate any tangents here: I do NOT want to go abroad and spend two days getting the Non Imm B visa at a foreign Thai embassy.

Thanks in advance.

Have the regulations changed regarding the Thai Labour Department issuing Work Permits to single people (ie NOT married to a Thai) with Non Immigration O visas?

I am not married to a Thai. I am not married to anyone. I have just started a new job at a good Thai school. I just obtained information from two officers at Immigration in Chaeng Wattana confirming it IS legal and completely fine to work in this country with a Non Imm O visa, IF you have a Work Permit. There are some single people at my work who have been working at their jobs with Work Permits and Non Imm O visas for some years.

This week the person in charge of getting staff their Work Permits at my school reported that applications of two new staff members (including myself) have been rejected by The Labour Department because we have Non Imm O visas. He says regulations have just changed and we need to leave the country and get Non Imm B visas to keep our jobs.

Anyone heard of these regulation changes, or is it incorrect information?


The things that makes me uncertain about this information are:
1 - we have had a stream of incorrect information so far about paperwork and visas. I think the person in charge of our work permits and visas is just trying to get us on Non Imm B visas like the majority of staff here to make his life easier, and

2 - the single staff members who have been working for two years with Non Imm O visas have been told they DON'T have to change their visas because they are special case who got in before the changes.


Any thoughts?



Thanks in advance.

Hi There,


I have searched this forum for an hour to find an answer to this but there doesn't seem to be an unequivocal yea or nay. Apologies if there are indeed threads covering this already.


I am here on a Non Imm Type O Visa from Hull, but am NOT married to a Thai, so the reason for the visa was stated as 'visiting friends'.

I have just got a new job as a teacher in a good school here in Bangkok and found out end of last week that, according to the powers that be, I can't switch my Non Imm Type O visa to anything useable to allow my Work Permit application to go through. I have been given a three month grace period from the Labour Dept (ie July to beginning of October, when the whole school starts its foreign work permit cycle) but will then have to leave the country to get a Non Imm B to allow the process to run smoothly.

Most posters seem to allude to the fact that a Non Imm O cannot be used to back up a work Permit UNLESS it is part of a marriage to a Thai. But I have come across other articles on the web, and a few comment here, which suggest there might be some cases, or some ways to pull strings, to make it so that I DON'T have to leave the country and apply for a new Non Imm B. some way to retain my Non Imm O and still get a Work Permit for a year.

Anyone know of any ways to sort this? My school want to effect this quickly and smoothly, so I suspect they will look favourably and be helpful regarding any loopholes or ways around the general consensus that it is not possible.

Thanks in advance: any thoughts would be most welcome.

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PS, I know, getting a Non Imm B from Hull would have been only about 1% more difficult. I messed up.

Hi there,

I have been living in Thailand for four years. I started a new job in Bangkok, with work permit, in 2009 and worked for 4 months until an leg injury – directly due to the work I was doing –meant I needed to stop. I had an operation here to repair the problem.  The social security dues I had been paying at my place of employment covered the cost of the surgery

here in Bangkok. I couldn't go back to work – still recovering -  and lost my job and work permit in Jan 2010.  I continued to pay social security payments via work monthly up til Jan 2010.

I have just discovered that I may be able to apply for wage compensation via the same social security dues and system that covered my surgery. I found out about this because a colleague still working at the same place has just gone through an identical situation, and in the last month got compensation for the months he wasn't working while laid up. The difference is: he is still working there, I am not. The company helped him get the necessary papers  together, but they are not being at all helpful with me. I am not sure if they ultimately will or won't help at this point in time -I don't want to push them further until I have a better idea of my 'rights' (if that word means much in Thailand!) and the details necessary for the claim. I wonder if anyone can help me with some advice:

-   Anyone know if I am still entitled to claim even though it was last year (June 2009-Jan 2010) that I was on sick leave / out of work, but was still paying SS dues and still holding a work permit?

-   If so, is there anyone outside of my place of employment that I can speak to to get advice about how the process is started/completed? I have only basic Thai, so it would have to be someone with useable English.

-    Is it a pointless persuit without the co-operation of my old employers ultimately, or is it a simple thing to do, requiring that they only sign off on some paperwork?

Many thanks in advance.