What is an ED Visa?
The ED Visa or Student Visa is a visa that you can obtain at a school that has the correct Educational License issued by the Ministry of Education.
NEW REGULATIONS FOR THE STUDENT VISA AND WARNINGS
- All new applicants will apply in the same manner as before, and get approval from the Education department. The main difference being if you are on a 30 day tourist visa , we will be required to deduct this from the length of the visa 12 month extension will become 11 months. If you have a double entry visa with a possible 30 day extension, it is possible you could loose upwards of 90 days of a student visa it would depend on when you got the student visa. 12 months is the maximum allowed before having to apply again.
- All our students that have extensions up to the 29th of August your visa extensions will be granted, If your visa's are due in September you have no choice but to apply for a new visa and leave the country to obtain this visa. All students after the 29th will simply have to apply for a new visa, extensions after the 29th will not be issued.
- Students going from year 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, and 4-5 apply in the same way but after approval at the Education department you will be required to take the documents out of Thailand to obtain a new visa. In line with Non O and Non A visa's.
- 70% attendence is required at the school and schools are going to be inspected on a regular basis , Some schools offer learning by Skype , This does not get you a student visa as 70% attendance is required.
- Seating capacity of schools , some schools have more students than they have seating capacity, even if these schools open 24 hours per day they cannot seat all there students, These school are being seriously looked at. With talk of closure.
- All visa shops, law firms , and tables in bars offering student visa's will also be inspected and they will have to tell the education department, which schools are doing the paperwork to allow them to offer a student visa, they have already compiled a list.
This is a difficult time for the school and our staff are having to do 4 times the amount of paperwork as they normaly do, having to re-apply for all the students that cannot get visa's after the 29th. We apologize for this change in regulations by the government.
Government being the important word, I will simply not tolerate my staff being abused and sworn at by people being affected by this new government policy, it is simply not the schools fault and it is certainly not our staff fault for the change of government policy. I thank you for your understanding
TLS Language School and our sister school CTLS Language School are both approved by the Ministry of Education as education facility’s and have the appropriate License’s to offer the ED Visa for several of our Language Programs offered within our Schools.
With over 6,000 students having received the student visa from Our schools, in Nonthanburi , Ayuthaya,Bangkok and Pattaya TLS Language School and her sister school CTLS Language School can quite confidently state that we are Thailand’s No 1 Language School in providing the Educational Visa for foreign students.
You can apply for this long stay visa either at any of our 5 schools or from your own country using our online application form. Overseas applicants who apply online for the ED Visa will have their documents sent to them via FedEx and tracking number sent to you by email.
What subjects can I obtain the Education Visa with:-
Subject | Hours | Years | Cost |
Thai Language Course | 180 | 1-5 | 25,000 |
English Language Course | 120 | 1-5 | 25,000 |
Chinese Language Course | 120 | 1-5 | 25,000 |
Japanese Language Course | 120 | 1-5 | 25,000 |
Russian Language Course | 120 | 1-5 | 25,000 |
German Language Course | 120 | 1-5 | 25,000 |
Financial Accounting | 240 | 1-5 | 60,000 |
Hotel Management Training | 280 | 1-5 | 65,000 |
Thai Traditonal Arts (Khon) | 120 | 1-5 | 25,000 |
Business English Language Course | 110 | 1-5 | 25,000 |
Inward Transfer Information CLICK HERE
ED Visa Application CLICK HERE
Below is a table showing short Language Programs which we can offer the ED Visa or Student Visa, These are Group Classes with a Minimum Number of Students per Class. 1-1 Instruction will incur a further charge.
TOEFL is taught on a 1-1 basis only.
Subject | Hours | Visa | Cost |
Thai Language Course | 90 | 3 or 6 MONTHS | 15,000 |
English Language Course | 60 | 3 or 6 MONTHS | 15,000 |
Chinese Language Course | 60 | 3 or 6 MONTHS | 15,000 |
Japanese Language Course | 60 | 3 or 6 MONTHS | 15,000 |
Russian Language Course | 60 | 3 or 6 MONTHS | 15,000 |
German Language Course | 60 | 3 or 6 MONTHS | 15,000 |
Thai Traditonal Arts (Khon) | 60 | 3 or 6 MONTHS | 15,000 |
TOEFL (Preparation Course) | 60 | 3 or 6 MONTHS | 42,000 |
TEFL | 130 | 3 or 6 MONTHS | 40,000 |