Any inside info that language school might be able to issue ED visa these days?

Got my ED visa last week.
Was on amnesty with tourist visa which expired in middle of May.
Can stay until middle of July next year.
Was super easy process. Never had so quick and easy way of getting visa. Just needed to pay school fee and immigration bribe and school did everything for me.

Anybody know wtf we suppose to do after Sept 26? Any chance of getting 30 day extensions til borders open?

Personally I'm not waiting until the 26th. I'm going to roll the dice with one of these shady agent visas most likely. They take your passport up to the a office in the sticks and get you a visa. I've been quoted 18k for 3 month medical visa and 56k for 15month volunteer visa. The 15month you still got to report 90 days so I want to use one that will do the reports for a fee dont want to be going in immigration with my obv hack visa. Many agents offering these options and from what I'm reading legit. I know a guy who did the 90 day pre last amnesty and his is real.

Also some schools offering education visas. The ones I contacted said 1 year from the date I entered Thailand is as far as they can go so not very useful to me. Maybe someone else knows a better option school wise that can do a full 6month to a year.

Then some guys I know are just going to hope they extend amnesty and then overstay if no more amnesty.. I'm not a fan of this because I feel like if they dont extend they will know a bunch of farang are still here on overstay and may start checking people more often. So the leave at 89 days plan might not workout when they know a ton of peopel overstaying which they will I imagine.

Friend of an acquaintance got a volunteer visa. Don't know the length or anything like that.

The logic on this amnesty expiration is so bad. Bangkok post estimate 300k people on tourist amnesty. Low average and say they're living on $1,000usd per month.
$300mil a month these people are pumping into the economy and they are kicking this money out of the country with no idea when there will be any tourists again.
Going to further crush some local's livelihoods. This govt really is the nut low.

would be interested to know the school if you didn't need to go to Laos, with pro language in bkk i had to go to Laos and could only stay 9 months

was a strange case of an agent being arrested recently, for 'fake stamps' but they claim they're still in operation and the visas were legit, and then the thaivisa thread on it got locked when they released a statement

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-ne...g-fake-stamps/
https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/117...mment=15691443

not sure what to make of it. they once quoted me 75k for a year visa that could be renewed indefinitely at 10k/year but i never ended up using them, pattaya seems cheaper

Yeah there super popular on facebook thaivisacentre. A bunch of posters on there said they got there visas while this was going on. I guess one if the workers got caught with weed but not one person has said they didnt get a visa and stamps have been checked. The company is saying the fake stamp **** is bs.

https://phuket-rawai.school/?lang=en

Couple friends went to different school in Phuket and also had the same deal.
Obviously I did not need to go outside of the country.
In Phuket immigration on a day when I went to give my passport I spent there ~5 minutes as school staff handled everything, needed to just take 1 picture in immigration and give money for changing tourist visa to ED visa.

Read on Thai Visa that in Pattaya and BKK schools only offer 1 year from the last date they entered Thailand.
Here in Phuket school assured me it is 1 year since I went to immigration and got my 1st ED Visa stamp.

I'm fairly certain big gov wants to crush the population monetarily and psychologically as the middle class and those who perceive themselves as such are getting too strong. Impoverished peasants who really need money are much easier to manage.

Long periods of no income will get all these credit jugglers back to reality that lived way above their means.

It will be interesting to see what all the loan sharks will do.

thanks. is it split into 3 month chunks with a trip to immigration to pay some more after each one? it worked like that in bkk

I have to agree along these lines or something because I can't believe a govt would be that stupid. They could just offer everyone amnesty who wants it and charge them 2,000bt a month for visa renewal. At least that alone is going to pay all the immigration dept's salaries. Immigration dept is going to be just be another drain on the coffers now once they kick all tourist visa people out.

Guess they're taking the USA route and try to foreclose on as many as possible, let the banks gobble up all the properties to hand over to their buddies.

At least there are some options even if sketchy. Don't want to be in Canada with winter coming up. Anyone know the situation in Laos? Are there flights going there and would they actually let you in the country?

As far as I know the only border people are getting in at the moment is from flying trough Kunming, but if you aren’t already in China you can’t access that airport.

What’s the sketchy options you talking about ? Can DM me if you don’t want to post here.

Yes exactly, my 1st stamp is for 90 days and I will be able to get 3 more stamps for 90 days. 5k to immigration for each one so I imagine there shouldn't be any problems as the true price is 1.9k for each extension yeah?

I just remember one more thing, one of the required documents was proof that I live in Phuket.



Copy of owners blue book,
Copy of rent agreement,
Copy of owners ID.

So if you are not currently living in Phuket not sure what are your options to get those documents.
Maybe school could help for some extra convenience fee

Oh I was just referring to the options listed by people here, getting BS student/medical Visas. I'm gonna wait til next month then go talk to local immigration and visa agents and see what they say. Still hoping I can bribe my way into 30 day extensions if all else fails. Last option is overstay as long as possible without getting banned.

thanks yeah it's 1.9k, the bribe to immigration was smaller in bkk i guess that explains the shorter visa

5k will be for extensions.
16k was for converting my tourist visa to ED visa 1st time. For my friends it was 15k in different school.

Have a friend that went to Playa Del Carmen. Seems like a reasonable option if you just want to avoid winter.

Never been to Mexico, would prefer not to have to travel anywhere. If I don't come up with a good solution I'm just gonna overstay 3 months and pay my 20K on the way out. Will buy me some time and they have to let foreigners back in at some point next year. By then Viet/Cambo/Laos might be temporary options as well.

The market in Thailand is pretty opaque, especially to foreigners, so it's hard to say how much has been sold to Chinese buyers for cash, how much is owned by foreigners that don't rely on local incomes, how much by wealthy thais that just keep property as a piggy bank and couldn't care less if it's empty as long as make belief valuations remain and how much by credit jugglers that leveraged family property as collateral to flip condos sold on completion / to buy up land and can't handle a year without good cash flow, how much by locals with normal incomes and no collateral that will foreclose if they can't work for 6 months upwards etc.

It's safe to say since non loan shark consumer credit became available people are way over leveraged with fancy cars etc. and prices for rents and food became way inflated for a 3rd world city that is all face no substance (flimsy low quality condo builds and shitty service even in fancy restaurants) and a big crash coming in the next year when people foreclose / have to sell when savings run out may or may not bring things back to realistic price levels for the average person when the dust has settled.

I know a guy living in Cha-Am (2h drive from BKK) and already pre corona last year groups of women that belonged to wealthy families in Bangkok were scouting the area to buy up land, so people apparently were already sensing back then that Bangkok might not remain all that stable / get dangerous for wealthier people and that they should buy up land in safe areas outside of BKK where they can lay low for some time in case of large scale protests / increasing safety issues.

Hey guys, just cross posting negative feedback here for Coinflipper / Gabe Villasenor

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Gabe has been out of contact for month now and has been living in Pattaya, Thailand with quite a heavy party lifestyle. After staking him for over 2 years, We've confirmed through mutliple mutual contacts that he decided on his own to end our staking deal and steal all of our money left in his accounts, as well as not pay back any makeup while he grinds on his own now.

He currently owes us $7,486.34 and the community should be advised to be extremely weary of doing any transactions with or staking him.

Just a heads up as I know he posts in this thread most often and knows quite a few people here irl.

Also saw some talk about mexico/playa del carmen. I'm in guadalajara now and its great - there's zero travel restrictions for entering mexico nor have there ever been any during covid times. I should point out that some states are under ley seca, which is a dry law meaning no alcohol. Mexico City and Guadalajara are fine, but both yucatan and quintana roo have had active laws of no alcohol sales recently, so be warned of that before considering certain states here in mexico

One anecdotal story regarding PDC. Have another friend (American) who bailed PDC a few weeks ago for Kiev after spending like 4 months there. He's kind of straightedge but not a liar. He said he left because he was sick of the scams going on there right now. He says the tourist police are basically trolling the streets of downtown at night looking for foreigners/tourists to shakedown for bribes. He was in a circle of longterm expats who spoke fluent spanish who got shaken down for money for holding a beer (sounds like old school TJ stuff when I was a teenager).
Anyways, it sounded a little ILIA'esq but he's not really the kind of guy to be paranoid or make **** up. The guys in the PDC thread would know what's up, just thought I'd throw it out there in case anyone has put it on their list. Just ask the guys in PDC if it's BS or not.

would be great to be in thailand right this minute, but i told all of you to get the hell out back in march. this day was always coming.

time to clean up the resume and start firing off applications for when you get home.