samak Posted February 8, 2002 Report Share Posted February 8, 2002 how to get one? how many years consecutive non immigrant visa are necessary (heard of 4 years). what are other prerequisites? as a Thai Resident, do you still need a work permit and what happens, if this expires? what are the approxiamtely costs to get it done. what are advantages and disadvantages? thanks for any advise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 8, 2002 Report Share Posted February 8, 2002 After 3 consecutive one-year nin-immigrant visa's, issued in Bangkok, you can apply for permanent residency. So you must be in your fourth one. In the third quarter of every year the gioverment will 'open' the applicationprocess on an arbitrary date. Then you can apply and if you are 'clean' and the number of people out of your country does not exceed the quota per country then you probably will know within one year whether you got it or not. You still have to have a work permit and a re-entry permit to re-enter the country. You can het a yearly multiple re-entry permit. You have to be in Thailand at least once a year otherwise you loose it. I think it will something like 50.000 bath. Advantage is that you do not have to apply for a visa anymore. The visa application process is the hardest of the two, the work permit is relatively easy. So it saves you headaches. When the policy changes (which is not a remote possibility in Thailand) and they decide not to let foreigners stay here, you can stay here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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