Having a UK passport, i have been told the UK (HULL) is the place for me to get this visa???.
Is it possible anywhere in Asia to get this visa???.
What does a non immigrant o visa mean, i can stay 15 months??
etc etc.
Many thanks.

Ah I mAy be a little out of date on this (Nonthaburi is the man to speak to)'but I got the non immi O within Thailand in mid 2007. Got an agent to do it in Phuket. Tried to get it in the country I was living in (singapore) but they would have nothing of it. Nonthaburi where are ya?

I'm here.

Firstly I take it that you have no Thai connection, otherwise you could get it in other places in the UK too.

I think Birmingham as well as Hull possibly..

You can get a one year multiple entry for 100 pounds. This will give you 90 days on arrival. Previously you could have extended that ninety days without leaving the country at your lcoal immigration office for another sixty ( 1900 baht ). If your visa is from London you still can.

Otherwise you will have to go on a visa run to Poipet in Cambodia ( the nearest border crossing 4 hours ) and then you will get another ninety days on arrival back in Thailand.

Indeed, if you did this on the last day of your one year visa you would get an extra three months to give you 15 months.

I have never known of a Thai embassy in a neighbouring country giving anything more than a single entry for a non-O.

but as Baked Bean says you could probably pay an agent ( and an agent's fee ) and get a one year visa in Thailand.

My advice would be to just get the one year non-O in the UK and if you still want to stay longer after that join a Thai language course and get an Education visa. It costs a lot ( 25,000ish ) but you only have to do a ninety day report rather than visa runs every 90 days.

Feel free to ask anything else. Traffic is light in the Thailand forum !

Maybe a question for nonthaburi here, i am married to thai national, we have three yr old daughter with thai and uk passports, we have two houses and all our money tied up in thailand, so what i want to know is this, we would like to go back and stay, what is the best visa for me to get? i know a non o will get me 15 months but i cant afford to leave thailand every 15 months to go to uk and apply for another non o visa,

What is my best route to take, with least hassle and costs.

Thanks

okay, that's a pretty easy one. With the non-O visa , if you are married you can apply for a one year extension which would then mean you only have to do a 90 day report at your local immigration office where you did the extension. It can be a bit of a hassle the first time you do it because you are new there, but you will need to have 400,000 baht in a Thai bank account in your name ( I think ) for at least 2 months before you apply. You will also need to give them a map showing how to get to your house from the immigration office and a photo of you all standing outside by the house number. They will want to see your marriage certificate, translated into Thai if you got married outside of Thailand. Plus your wife's house registration and ID card, both sides. Birth certificates of the children are optional. The photo page of your passport plus the entry stamp page , plus the visa page. All copies have to be signed by you and your wife and dated. Every page.
The best thing to do is to go down to your local office and ask what they want before you apply. It may vary from place to place. The most important thing is the 400,000. When your year extension is up you don't have to leave the country. You just do another extension , showing the money in the bank and everything else like you did before.

That probably sounds confusing but it's not that bad really so long as you have everything. Most of the people I see getting angry at immigration are the people who didn't find out what was needed and they then get into problems.

You don't have to have 400k in the bank. You can also show them 40,000 Bt coming into your account as foreign earnings each month for the 3 months prior to your application.

that's very true , I forgot about that. Mate of mine does it like that.