Thread: Is it possible?

Is it possible if you go to Thailand on holiday and decide you want to stay and work there for a couple of years? Because we might be coming on holiday and just might end up wanting to stay longer and maybe buy a business or two. Obyiously we would want to do it all legally. Can everything be done and sorted out in Thailand? And what is the procedure in such a case?

if you do in fact go to thailand it might be possible

Get a Tourist Visa in your home country, that will allow you 60 days stay.

If you decide to stay you can convert it to a non-imm visa in Bangkok
Conditions will apply

a lot of might and ifs in this OP...
anyway, you would be much better getting an appropriate visa in your own country before you left as it's a pain in the proverbial to change things once you're here...

Sorry Tets: didn't see you there...

Anything is possible but as the boys say much easier to get ya ducks in a row before touch down

I see now that South Africans do not need a holiday visa to go on holiday, so do I just apply for an extention until we are sure what we want to do?

don't enter into a business you are not sure of. if you are really planning on investing do your homework before you leave so that when in holiday there you know what to actually look for or confirm...

Originally Posted by Damarios

I see now that South Africans do not need a holiday visa to go on holiday, so do I just apply for an extention until we are sure what we want to do?

Nope, that is a bad way to do it.

Originally Posted by Damarios

I see now that South Africans do not need a holiday visa to go on holiday, so do I just apply for an extention until we are sure what we want to do?

Tourist Visa will give you 60 day stay. Believe it can be extended in Bangkok for 30 days.

Transit Visa, 30 days. 7 day extension.

Go here for more info.

Royal Thai Embassy

Originally Posted by Thetyim

Originally Posted by Damarios

I see now that South Africans do not need a holiday visa to go on holiday, so do I just apply for an extention until we are sure what we want to do?

Nope, that is a bad way to do it.

Agree. Entry without visa not a good way to go.

Originally Posted by Norton

Transit Visa, 30 days. 7 day extension.

Tourist Visa Exemption not transit visa

They call it a transit visa on the link I gave. A new one on me. Not sure why they have such a thing given South Africans can now enter without visa.

" Transit Visa……………. : 200 Rand per entry, per person"

Originally Posted by Norton

They call it a transit visa on the link I gave.

Mistake.

I saw other errors on that link

Originally Posted by klongmaster

anyway, you would be much better getting an appropriate visa in your own country before you left as it's a pain in the proverbial to change things once you're here...

Very difficult to get a Non-Immigrant Business Visa with no paperwork.

Buying a business is a mug's game.

Build your own business up, don't buy failed businesses with extortionate key money from con-merchants like Sunbelt.

I'd say your chances of success are slim to almost guaranteed failure, given you don't even know the visa situation. Spend a lot of time here and learn the ropes before getting involved in business.

I swear, people can't google anything themselves.

Originally Posted by Thetyim

Originally Posted by Norton

They call it a transit visa on the link I gave.

Mistake.

I saw other errors on that link

Typical Thai Embassy website. Never kept current.

They say entry without visa allows stay for 30 days. Hasn't this been changed to 15 days?

[quote=Norton;1155862]Not sure why they have such a thing given South Africans can now enter without visa.


What I mean is that you do not need to apply for it before hand, you get it once you're there....

I might have got the info wrong and I am still reading up on how it all works before doing anything. That is why I am asking you guys...

Thanx for all the advice here!!!!

Originally Posted by Dancing Priest

Very difficult to get a Non-Immigrant Business Visa with no paperwork.

Nonsense. It's apiece of piss. Just need a letter and a copy of the company's registration certificate and Bob's your uncle.

Originally Posted by Norton

They say entry without visa allows stay for 30 days. Hasn't this been changed to 15 days?

30 days at the airport but only 15 days at a land border

Damarios, can you expand on the "we"

If you have a thai wife then you have more options on the business side.

Originally Posted by Thetyim

If you have a thai wife then you have more options on the business side.

I think this is the bloke with the bloke.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Dancing Priest

Very difficult to get a Non-Immigrant Business Visa with no paperwork.

Nonsense. It's apiece of piss. Just need a letter and a copy of the company's registration certificate and Bob's your uncle.

Last time I checked a letter and company registration is paperwork.

You're a bit dim aren't you?

Originally Posted by Thetyim

Damarios, can you expand on the "we"

If you have a thai wife then you have more options on the business side.

It is me and my gay partner. Most people think we wat to come beacause of the gay night life, but that is not the case here.

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by Damarios

I see now that South Africans do not need a holiday visa to go on holiday, so do I just apply for an extention until we are sure what we want to do?

Tourist Visa will give you 60 day stay. Believe it can be extended in Bangkok for 30 days.

Transit Visa, 30 days. 7 day extension.

Go here for more info.

Royal Thai Embassy

Thanx for the link, Norton.
Are you also South African?

jaysus, it only costs a couple of hundred dollars to leave the country and come back, if you've got money to buy a few businesses it shouldnt be an issue.

Certainly beats trying to rush a sale and permit etc.