Ok I think people are talking at cross-purposes here.
First of all, any promotion of commercial activities require premium membership, so paid courses at individual establishments cannot be discussed. However Dumbo did ask for specific advice and someone involved in running a language school in Bangkok is going to be well-placed to supply that advice - so long as it doesn't develop into a commercial thread.
gleeglee has given some useful information and without mentioning names I have seen a website for a certain language school in Bangkok that is an approved educational establishment, with links to the aforementioned charity.
Yes we should all be careful about supplying personal details by email, but it can be checked whether the organisation concerned is bona fide or not.
S2 there are all manner of dodgy outfits working with 'teachers' who have little or no qualifications, but the route gleeglee is suggesting seems to be the officially approved and legal one. I can well believe that a normal school cannot apply for a volunteer teacher visa, and that only registered charities can do this. Perhaps there are ways around this (eg applying for a normal paid teaching job, then 'donating' the money back to the school). But what gleeglee says in that respect makes sense to me.
As long as the documentation being discussed isn't related to TEFL or PhD courses (ie to acquire the qualifications to teach from a private language school), and simply relates to visa requirements, then so far I see no problem in this thread.
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