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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Voluntary work in combination with a retirement visa
Dear readers,
I have been coming to Thailand since the 90s and from next year, when I take pre-retirement, I want to settle there permanently between Cha Am and Hua Hin.
Because I can't or don't want to sit still I'm thinking about volunteering for a nice NGO or charitable institution. I would like to do something in PR/Marketing/Social Media Campaign or something like that.
Does anyone here know the legislation so well whether it is possible to do something like this when you have a retirement visa? I read here and there that work is work anyway and you need a work permit for it and therefore a different kind of visa?
Does anyone know an organization that would like to use my services and knowledge? I have a very wide and diverse work experience in different countries, I speak 5 languages fluently and basic Thai.
Thanks for your answers and suggestions.
Regards,
John
The organization you will be working for must apply for a work permit for you; you can't do that yourself. Then your retirement extension no longer applies, you will receive another extension. Don't work illegally, you're so ratted on by a jealous Thai who thinks you're taking his / her job and then you end up in jail.
I think you have read it correctly here and there, volunteering is also work, a work permit is required for work, and a work permit is not issued on a retirement visa.
Yet one of the shortcomings of the retirement visa and Thailand's desire to attract retirees. And also a loss for the country, which apparently could make good use of all the knowledge and experience this group has to offer. But alas, as a pensioner with a retirement visa you are not allowed to work, not even unpaid. What is allowed is to spend your pension and savings here, sit on the beach or in the hills of the north, or view the rice fields in the Isarn.
Indeed it is complicated to combine a retirement visa with any kind of work (including volunteer work). I stopped doing fun work which I did in an international team of volunteers, most of whom came from abroad and had a work permit. I didn't want to continue the risk when the rules were tightened.
Indeed, in many cases a pity for the knowledge and experience that could be brought in, although few Thai think the same about it. Thailand is not the only country where this is the case. Many countries in the world that attract “retirees” follow this principle whether you are retired or working. Often the reason is that no one can imagine that someone wants to work for free.
Taking jobs away from natives is an argument that does not make much sense. The vast majority of volunteer jobs have no paid variants.
Visas or residence periods based on Retirement or Tourist visas do not go together with working in Thailand. Paid or not.
You know how to apply for a Non-immigrant “O” based on volunteer work.
You can find information about it on the website of the Consulast in Amsterdam.
http://www.royalthaiconsulateamsterdam.nl/index.php/visum-aanvragen
Requirements for a Non-Immigrant type O visa (volunteering): single entry
The following documents/forms are required for this application;
-Your passport, copy of your passport, copy of the plane ticket/flight details (only the outward journey is sufficient), 2 recent identical passport photos, fully completed and signed application form, Copy of the Chamber of Commerce of the organization for which you will be volunteering (registration must not be older than 6 months), letter of invitation from the organization for which you will be volunteering (this letter should state the period of time you are going to volunteer and what the work entails), copy of the ID card of the person who signed the letter of invitation.
If the person who signed the letter of invitation is not a Thai resident, a copy of the work permit of this person must also be enclosed with all written and/or stamped pages
For a single entry visa application, your passport must be valid for at least 9 months at the time you enter Thailand
Costs for a single entry are € 60 per person
Of
Thai Embassy in Btussel
http://www2.thaiembassy.be/consular-services/visa/
See under Visa for voluntary entry in Thailand.
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John, please contact us at [email protected].
Thanks for the responses both here and by email.