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Visa Advice: Entering As A Tourist

Citizens from most countries can enter Thailand as a tourist for up to 30 days without a visa. The document recommends applying for a 60-day tourist visa in advance to have more flexibility with travel plans and to avoid needing to do a "visa run" midway through the course. It also provides information on options for entering as a student or to work in Thailand after completing the course.

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Visa Advice: Entering As A Tourist

Citizens from most countries can enter Thailand as a tourist for up to 30 days without a visa. The document recommends applying for a 60-day tourist visa in advance to have more flexibility with travel plans and to avoid needing to do a "visa run" midway through the course. It also provides information on options for entering as a student or to work in Thailand after completing the course.

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Visa advice

In an attempt to pre-empt some of your queries regarding visas, we have put together
this short fact sheet that should go way some way to giving you a good idea of what
you’ll need to do in advance of the course.

Entering as a Tourist

Although your primary reason for coming to Thailand may initially be to study, the
vast majority of our trainees do in fact enter the country as tourists as it is the cheapest
and quickest- and least ‘painful’ (in terms of paperwork)- way to do so.

In fact, citizens of most countries (see list blow) do not require any visa to enter
Thailand as a tourist for a period of up to 30 days. This means that if you were to
enter the country the day before your course started (Sunday), you would not need to
leave until the Sunday / Monday following completion of the course.

For anyone arriving more than 2 days ahead of the start however, or for those
who might want to enjoy a little of Thailand before they leave, a far better option is to
apply for a 60-day tourist visa at your local Thai Embassy / Consulate Section before
you depart. The process is relatively speedy and inexpensive, and ultimately will give
you more freedom when making your travel arrangements. We therefore strongly
recommend the 60-day option.

THE ONE THING YOU DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT TO HAPPEN IS TO


LEAVE YOURSELF NEEDING TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY TO DO A ‘VISA-
RUN’ MIDWAY THROUGH THE COURSE

Nationals of the following countries may enter Thailand without a visa in


accordance with Ministry of Interior's regulation for a maximum stay of
30 days for purpose of Tourism only:

1. AUSTRALIA 16. IRELAND 31. QATAR


2. AUSTRIA 17. ISRAEL 32. SINGAPORE
3. BAHRAIN 18. ITALY 33. SOUTH AFRICA
4. BELGIUM 19. JAPAN 34. SPAIN
5. BRAZIL 20. KOREA, Rep. of 35. SWEDEN
6. BRUNEI 21. KUWAIT 36. SWITZERLAND
7. CANADA 22. LUXEMBOURG 37. TURKEY
8. DENMARK 23. MALAYSIA 38. UNITED ARAB
9. FINLAND 24. NETHERLANDS EMIRATES

10. FRANCE 25. NEW ZEALAND 39. UNITED KINGDOM


OF GREAT BRITAIN
11. GERMANY 26. NORWAY AND NORTHERN
IRELAND
12. GREECE (Helenic 27. OMAN
Republic) 28. PERU 40. UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA
13. HONG KONG 29. PHILIPPINES
14. INDONESIA
41. VIETNAM
30. PORTUGAL
15. ICELAND
Entering as a Student

It is possible to enter the country with a 90-day Non-immigrant Ed visa although this
option is more expensive and takes rather more form filling than the tourist visa. An
application for the visa requires a Letter of Acceptance (LoA) from us confirming you
have been accepted onto the course, and the precise dates of that particular course-
which can of course be provided on request. The only problem with this option, aside
from the extra cost, is that your particular embassy may decide that they are only
going to issue a visa for the length of the course (27 days or so) and then you’ll have
to leave as soon as the course is finished (it should be noted that at another embassy
they’ll give you the whole 90 days)- but is it worth the risk? Frankly, I would say no,
but we’ll leave that up to you….

The Non-immigrant B visa and Work Permits

Those of you who may be interested in staying on in Thailand to work will find that
unless you already have a job-offer, and a letter to confirm the offer, you will not be
able to enter with the Non-immigrant B visa (which is needed to then obtain a Work
Permit).

Once you have completed the course and have found an employer who wishes to
employ you- you will then need to briefly leave the country and apply for the Non-B.
The process is relatively simple and inexpensive- but please bear in mind that there is
no other way around this rule (at least for the moment!). We are therefore unable to
provide you with the paperwork in this respect.

____________________________________________________________________

For further visa advice we recommend the following website:

http://www.thaiembdc.org/consular/visa/visa.htm

Of course, you may also contact us at celta@ihbangkok.com

Or admin@ihbangkok.com

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