volunteering in thailand

[frogblogger]

I forget - are you already in Thailand? What visa have you got/are you applying for?

[Serendipity2]

Originally Posted by Dumbo

I need some advice as I don't know the best to ago about this. I have a position as a volunteer teaching english at a small country school near Surin if I am able to do this legally. Can it be done without becoming attached to some organisation? My girlfriend is a teacher at the school.
and her boss is very happy for me to help. But don't want to be on the wrong side of the law. Any help please

Dumbo,

I'm pretty sure that the school will help you get a visa since it's in their interest to help you help them and there would be no advantage to them for you to get sideways with the authorities. Ask them - that's the easy way. You probably don't have to mention but if you want let them know your gf will also be working for them.

Serendipity2

[Dumbo]

Originally Posted by Serendipity2

Dumbo,

I'm pretty sure that the school will help you get a visa since it's in their interest to help you help them and there would be no advantage to them for you to get sideways with the authorities. Ask them - that's the easy way. You probably don't have to mention but if you want let them know your gf will also be working for them.

Serendipity2

Serendipity2,
Many thanks for that. I will follow your suggestion.

[gleeglee]

Originally Posted by Dumbo

Serendipity2,
Many thanks for that. I will follow your suggestion.

Hello as a new boy on this forum, i can offer a little advise, To get a volunteers work permit you must get the correct paperwork from a foundation or a charity who will send you the correct paperwork to get the Non B Visa.

My wife is the president of a foundation in Thailand called F.A.C.E (Foundation for Arts Culture and Education) and we place teachers in poor school who volunteer through the foundation. you would be able to contact them at give@global-face.org
My wife is also the owner of a school TLS Language School and will have her Phd in Education sometime this year, so she knows the law on this matter quite well a school cannot get a work permit for a volunteer as they are not a charity. so i believe.
F.A.C.E Can get you and your partner working in a school together and can send all the paperwork required for your application for the visa, This charity do not take a fee off you but your welcome to Donate to this Charity. you can read more about the school that you would teach at on f.a.c.e website which is
charity

AND GOOD LUCK IN YOUR SEARCH! Good People are always more than welcome in Thailand.

[Dumbo]

Originally Posted by gleeglee

Hello as a new boy on this forum, i can offer a little advise, To get a volunteers work permit you must get the correct paperwork from a foundation or a charity who will send you the correct paperwork to get the Non B Visa.

My wife is the president of a foundation in Thailand called F.A.C.E (Foundation for Arts Culture and Education) and we place teachers in poor school who volunteer through the foundation. you would be able to contact them at give@global-face.org
My wife is also the owner of a school TLS Language School and will have her Phd in Education sometime this year, so she knows the law on this matter quite well a school cannot get a work permit for a volunteer as they are not a charity. so i believe.
F.A.C.E Can get you and your partner working in a school together and can send all the paperwork required for your application for the visa, This charity do not take a fee off you but your welcome to Donate to this Charity. you can read more about the school that you would teach at on f.a.c.e website which is
charity

AND GOOD LUCK IN YOUR SEARCH! Good People are always more than welcome in Thailand.

gleeglee,
Thank you very,very much for the information. My partner is a Thai teacher teaching maths at a small country school. She has talked to her boss and there is a position a her school for me to teach english as a volunteer six hours per week. I have my own private income so payment is not required. It will be assisting the present Thai english teacher. But I still need a visa.

[gleeglee]

Originally Posted by Dumbo

gleeglee,
Thank you very,very much for the information. My partner is a Thai teacher teaching maths at a small country school. She has talked to her boss and there is a position a her school for me to teach english as a volunteer six hours per week. I have my own private income so payment is not required. It will be assisting the present Thai english teacher. But I still need a visa.

This is what i said the school cannot offer you the documents and without them you would be working illegally, I will talk to my wife and ask her if there is some help we can give you in this. The procedure would be that you would get a temporary 3 month B visa and when you enter Thailand this would be changed to a 1 year visa that runs adjacent the work permit. If you are in Thailand already you would have to leave and come back with the non B.

[frogblogger]

Thanks for that info gleeglee.

Just to clarify, someone already in Thailand with a non-immigrant 'O' visa who wants to do some voluntary work. What options are open to him?

[Dumbo]

Originally Posted by gleeglee

This is what i said the school cannot offer you the documents and without them you would be working illegally, I will talk to my wife and ask her if there is some help we can give you in this. The procedure would be that you would get a temporary 3 month B visa and when you enter Thailand this would be changed to a 1 year visa that runs adjacent the work permit. If you are in Thailand already you would have to leave and come back with the non B.

I will be coming back to Thailand on the 24th of July again on a 30 day entry visa just to make arrangements for when I move to Thailand on a more permanent footing. My partner and I intend to marry but not yet. The position is at her school and I will be talking to her boss when I arrive. But I will only teach if I can do it legaly. I would certainly be very grateful for any assistance or advice you can help me with. Les.

[gleeglee]

Originally Posted by Dumbo

I will be coming back to Thailand on the 24th of July again on a 30 day entry visa just to make arrangements for when I move to Thailand on a more permanent footing. My partner and I intend to marry but not yet. The position is at her school and I will be talking to her boss when I arrive. But I will only teach if I can do it legaly. I would certainly be very grateful for any assistance or advice you can help me with. Les.

I will talk to my wife tomorrow as she is at a conference today and tonight at dinner, if we did the documents it would take several days you would need to send us a resume and a copy of your passport and a good quality passport size photo, Once ready we could express mail this to you but you would have to return the cost of the mail, The document would get you a temporary 3 month non B visa which you require for working.

[Serendipity2]

Originally Posted by gleeglee

I will talk to my wife tomorrow as she is at a conference today and tonight at dinner, if we did the documents it would take several days you would need to send us a resume and a copy of your passport and a good quality passport size photo, Once ready we could express mail this to you but you would have to return the cost of the mail, The document would get you a temporary 3 month non B visa which you require for working.

gleeglee,

I hate to throw cold water on the party and perhaps I'm wrong but surely your wife's capable assistance isn't the only way one can get a visa to teach in Thailand - is it?

People have been coming to Thailand for decades and working with rural and indigenous peoples and I would find it hard to believe they aren't doing so legally. And I suspect not all are charities. I'm also wondering about holding yourself out [or in this case, your wife] as a method to obtaining a work visa? Is this a commercial business or a private venture? If the former perhaps you could list the name of the company and offer other competing venues as well?

Again, I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade but you're very new on this forum and are asking people to send their very private information to you is a bit surreal. Surely there is a ministry that handles this - it surely isn't a new issue.

Serendipity2