Thai
The course most of our students come for. The script, the tones, and the Thai you use this week.
Thai language course in Bangkok- 8 months
36,000THB
Thai course + ED Visa support
- 14 months
47,500THB
Thai course + ED Visa support
Education Visa · Klong Toey, Bangkok
The Thailand ED Visa,handled from Bangkok.Enrol on a course. Stay legally, up to 14 months.
Everything below is the whole picture: what the package costs, what you send us to start, how long it takes, what immigration expects from you afterwards, and what happens to your money if an application is refused. No call needed to find any of it out.
0%
approved, on the applications we file
5 to 7wks
typical processing, documents to decision
3languages
Thai, Chinese or English, all qualify
Prices · all seven packages
Course and visa
support. One price.
These are not tuition figures with the visa bolted on afterwards. Each one is the whole package, the course itself and the Education Visa support that goes with it, for the full duration.
English
Everyday and working English, taught by certified teachers from our own material.
English language course in Bangkok- 7.5 months
45,500THB
English course + ED Visa support
- 12 months
58,000THB
English course + ED Visa support
Chinese
Pinyin and tones first, then characters, then real conversation.
Chinese language course in Bangkok- 4 months
24,500THB
Chinese course + ED Visa support
- 8 months
44,000THB
Chinese course + ED Visa support
- 12 months
57,000THB
Chinese course + ED Visa support
Paid upfront, in full
The package is paid before the application goes in. We do not offer installment plans.
Covers the whole course
One payment covers the full 4, 7.5, 8, 12 or 14 months. Nothing further is owed to the school partway through.
Immigration fees are separate
Renewal fees are paid by you, at immigration, each time the stamp is extended. They are not part of the school fee and we never handle that money.
Studying without the visa? We do not run study-only rates at the moment. The school is built around students who need the Education Visa. If that is not you, email hello@bkklanguageschool.com and we will pass you to the team that handles general enrolment.
Ask about a packageHow to start
Three things.
That is the application.
Send these over and we will tell you where you stand, usually the same day. There is no form to fill in first and no fee to pay before we have looked.
Send them overWebsite chat, LINE, Telegram and WeChat all reach the same school team.
The course and the duration
Which language, and which of the seven packages. If you are not sure yet, say so and we will talk it through before anything is paid.
Your passport photo page
A clear photo or scan of the page with your details on it. This is also what we use to check nationality and eligibility, which is done case by case rather than from a list.
Every Thai entry stamp from the last 2 years
Photograph each page that carries one. Your travel history is the part immigration looks at hardest, so we would rather see it at the start than be surprised by it later.
Timeline & routes
About 5 to 7 weeks,
documents to decision.
That is the honest range across both routes. It is not a queue you can pay to skip, so the single best thing you can do is start it early, while there is still plenty of time left on whatever stamp you are on now.
Stage 1
You send the three documents
We check them, confirm the package, and prepare the enrolment paperwork the application is built on.
Stage 2
Ministry of Education approval
The school files the application. This is the approval that has to land before anything can go to an embassy or to immigration.
Stage 3
Embassy, consulate or conversion in Bangkok
Which one depends on where you are. Both routes are below. You attend in person either way. The school prepares the documents, it cannot submit them for you.
Then
You study, and you renew
The stamp is extended at immigration in 2 to 3 month blocks for the length of the course you bought.
Recommended
You are already in Thailand
- Enter on a tourist visa or tourist stamp first, then convert. This is the smoothest path and the one we suggest by default.
- The tourist-to-ED conversion is done at Chaeng Watthana in Bangkok.
- We prepare every document. You submit them in person. There is no drop-off and nobody can attend on your behalf.
- Allow a 5-week window for the conversion. Starting it with less runway than that is where most avoidable problems come from.
Also fine
You are applying from overseas
- You apply at a Thai embassy or consulate in your own country.
- We email you the forms to complete, and the enrolment documents that go with them.
- You choose the post you apply at. We will give you our view, but the choice and the outcome sit with you and with them.
- Many people still find it simpler to enter on a tourist stamp and convert here instead.
The “up to” in up to 14 months
You get 14 months.
Not in one stamp.
Everyone in this business advertises the long number and very few explain what sits behind it. Here it is. Your course runs the full 8, 12 or 14 months you paid for. Your stamp is issued in 2 to 3 month blocks and renewed at immigration as you go, because immigration wants to see students periodically rather than once. Both of those are true at the same time, and neither one is a catch.
The course runs the whole time
Buy the 14-month package and you are enrolled for 14 months. The school fee covers that entire period and nothing further is owed to us partway through.
The stamp comes in 2 to 3 month blocks
Immigration issues the permission to stay in stages and extends it as you go. That is not a quirk of this school. It is how every Education Visa in Thailand works.
You go in person to renew
Each extension is done by you, at immigration, with the documents we prepare. There is no passport drop-off service and no agent standing in for you.
Renewal fees are yours
You pay immigration directly each time the stamp is extended. Those fees are separate from the package price and never pass through the school.
Eligibility
Who this is
open to.
Almost nobody is excluded by who they are. A few people are complicated by what is already in their passport. Both are checked the same way. You send it, we look.
Not a barrierThings people assume rule them out
No age limit
There is no upper or lower cut-off. Older applicants are common and are assessed on the same basis as anyone else.
No nationality restriction
No passport is excluded from the outset. Some embassies are stricter than others, which is a different question and is covered under refunds.
No history in Thailand required
You do not need a minimum number of previous entries, and a first-ever trip to Thailand is not a mark against you.
Previously on an ED Plus through a university
Still eligible, but you will need a fresh tourist stamp first. An ED Visa cannot be converted directly into another ED Visa, so that entry has to be reset before we can start.
What actually causes troubleThings in a passport that do
Overstays
Any record of overstaying is the single strongest negative signal, and it is the first thing we look for in your stamps.
Heavy use of visa-free entry
A long run of 60-day stamps reads to immigration as living in Thailand on tourist entries. It does not rule you out, but it changes the conversation and we would rather have that conversation before you pay.
Border bouncing and repeat tourist visas
The same pattern by another name. If your last two years look like this, tell us at the start rather than hoping the stamps get skimmed.
None of these is an automatic refusal. They are the reason we ask for two years of stamps up front rather than after you have paid for a course.
Everything on this page is assessed case by case. Send your passport photo page and your Thai entry stamps from the last 2 years, and we will check, before any money changes hands.
Once you have it
What the visa
asks of you.
An ED Visa is a student visa, and it behaves like one. These are the obligations that come with it. All of them, in one place, before you decide.
- Immigration reporting
- In person, every 60 to 90 days. There is no passport drop-off service and nobody can attend for you. We prepare the documents; you keep the appointment.
- Attendance
- 80% is required. Sick days count inside that 80%, not on top of it, so treat the 20% as your whole allowance for the year rather than a holiday budget.
- Taking a break
- Fine, as long as the 80% still holds when the course ends. Plan the trip against your attendance, not against the calendar.
- Levels
- Beginner and advanced classes run at the same time, so you can join at any level, at any point. You are placed where you actually are.
- Starting
- Any week. There is no term and no fixed intake, so the visa paperwork rather than a start date is what decides how soon you are in a classroom.
- Finishing early
- Working through the levels ahead of schedule does not cancel anything. The visa is valid for the course duration you bought.
- Switching language
- Not possible mid-course. Pick Thai, Chinese or English before you enrol, because that choice is fixed for the duration.
- Moving city
- The visa is filed by this school, in Bangkok. It cannot be transferred to a school in another city.
- Class timetable
- Fixed, and the same every week, so the 80% is something you can plan rather than chase. Thai and Chinese run Monday to Thursday, English Tuesday to Friday, between 10am and 5pm, plus one Thai beginner group online on Monday and Wednesday evenings. The full timetable is in the FAQ below.
Straight about the limits
Five things we
do not do.
These are the questions we answer most often, and the answer is no every time. Better you read it here for free than find out after paying for 12 months of something.
No IELTS, TOEFL or TOEIC preparation
We are not partnered with any testing organisation and we do not teach to their exams. This is a private language school with its own programs and its own certificates, built around practical everyday language.
No student ID card
We do not issue one. If you have seen student discounts quoted as a benefit of an ED Visa somewhere else, that is not something we can promise.
No residence certificate
Those are issued by an embassy or by immigration, never by a school. We do provide a Certificate of Study on request, but we make no guarantee about what any bank or licensing office will accept it for.
We are a language school, not a visa agency
We file the visa because you study here. We do not sell visa services on their own, and we cannot make decisions that belong to the Ministry of Education, an embassy or Thai immigration.
Classes are taught in English
English is the language of instruction across all three courses, including the Chinese and Thai ones. You need enough English to follow a class in it.
Refund policy
If the answer
comes back no.
Bangkok Language School’s refund policy has two stages, and which one you are in depends on how far the application got. Read it before you pay, not after.
Stage 1 · Ministry of Education
Refused by the MOE?
Full refund, less 10,000 THB
If your application is submitted and the Ministry of Education rejects it, you receive the package price back minus 10,000 THB, which covers registration, administration and processing already carried out on your file.
Stage 2 · Embassy or consulate
Refused after MOE approval?
No refund
Once Ministry of Education approval has been granted, the school has done and paid for the work the fee covers. If the embassy or consulate then declines the visa, the fee is not refundable. There are three reasons that decision can go against you, and none of them is something a school can control.
The three reasons an embassy says no
Which post you apply at
We will tell you what we know about the embassies and consulates our students use, but the choice is yours to make. Some posts are strict, some are relaxed, and researching the one you intend to use is your responsibility.
What is on your record
A criminal record, or a blacklist arising from overstaying, border bouncing or an excessive run of tourist visas. No school can be held responsible for a history it did not create and cannot see in advance.
Relations between the two countries
If relations between Thailand and your country are poor, approval may be unlikely regardless of how the file is prepared. Check with the embassy you intend to use before committing money.
We prepare the file and we file the application. The decisions themselves belong to the Ministry of Education, to the embassy or consulate you choose, and to Thai immigration.
We hold a 99.9% approval rate on the applications we file, and we still will not tell you an outcome is certain before someone with the authority to decide it has decided.
Everything else
The rest of the questions.
If yours is not here, it is a one-line message away. Nobody is going to put you in a callback queue.
Can I study with you without taking the ED Visa?
Not at the moment. We do not offer study-only rates. The school is built around students who need the Education Visa, and the package prices reflect that.
If you do not need a visa, email hello@bkklanguageschool.com and we will pass you to the team that handles general enrolment.
Do I need to have been to Thailand before?
No. There is no minimum number of previous entries and a first-ever trip to Thailand is not a problem.
What matters is what your recent history looks like, not how much of it there is. Send your entry stamps from the last 2 years and we will tell you where you stand.
I am on an ED Plus visa through a university. Can I move to you?
Yes, you are eligible, but not directly. An ED Visa cannot be converted into another ED Visa, so you will need to leave and re-enter on a tourist stamp first, and we start the conversion from there.
Plan that gap deliberately: allow a 5-week window for the conversion once the new tourist stamp is in your passport.
Can you take my passport and do the immigration run for me?
No. Every ED Visa student reports to immigration in person, every 60 to 90 days. There is no passport drop-off service here and nobody can attend on your behalf.
What we do is prepare the documents you take with you and walk you through each extension.
When do classes run?
Thai and Chinese run Monday to Thursday, English Tuesday to Friday, in classes of 1 to 2 hours between 10am and 5pm. One Thai beginner group runs online from 6pm to 8pm on Monday and Wednesday, which is worth knowing on an ED Visa because attendance is what the visa is granted against.
The grid repeats every week, so the 80% is something you can plan around rather than chase. The Thai timetable is below, since it is the course most visa students take, and the Chinese and English ones are on their own course pages.
| Days | Time | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Mon, Wed | Beginner A | |
| Mon, Wed | Beginner B (runs alongside another level) | |
| Mon, Wed | Advanced A (runs alongside another level) | |
| Tue, Thu | Intermediate A | |
| Tue, Thu | Beginner C | |
| Mon, Wed | Beginner DOnline only | |
| Mon | Writing, advanced | |
| Tue, Wed | Writing, intermediate | |
| Wed | Writing, beginner (runs alongside another level) |
Up to 4 hours a week, depending on the level. Evening classes run online, after the building closes.
When can I start?
There is no term and no fixed intake. The timetable repeats every week, so you start in the week that suits you rather than waiting for the next cohort. Most people join a beginner class, and joining part-way through a chapter is normal at that level.
On the visa side it is the paperwork that sets your real start, not an intake date. If you are converting a tourist stamp, allow the 5-week window this page describes and count back from the week you want to be in class.
Can I travel or take a holiday during the course?
Yes, as long as your attendance still meets 80% by the end of the course. Sick days count inside that 80% rather than on top of it, so plan trips against your attendance rather than the calendar.
What happens if I finish all the levels before the course ends?
Nothing happens to your visa. It is valid for the course duration you purchased, and finishing the material early does not cut that short.
Because beginner and advanced classes run concurrently, there is usually somewhere sensible to keep going.
Will the Certificate of Study get me a driving licence or a bank account?
We provide a Certificate of Study, and some people find it useful. We make no guarantee about what any bank or licensing office will accept, because that decision is theirs and it changes from branch to branch.
We cannot issue a residence certificate at all. Those come from an embassy or from immigration, never from a school.
Do you prepare students for IELTS, TOEFL or TOEIC?
No. We are not partnered with any testing organisation and we do not teach to those exams.
This is a private language school with its own programs, its own textbooks and its own certificates, focused on practical everyday language.
What language are the classes taught in?
English. That is the language of instruction across all three courses, including the Chinese and Thai ones, so you need enough English to follow a class in it.
Which course should I take if I only care about the visa?
All three qualify (Thai, Chinese and English), so pick the one you will actually turn up for, because 80% attendance is required either way.
Most people in Bangkok choose Thai, since it is the language they use outside the classroom the same afternoon.
See the Thai language courseOne message, that is the whole process
Send three things.
We will tell you where you stand.
No form, no fee, no callback queue. You send them over and you get a real answer back from the people who file the applications, usually the same day.
- The course and duration you want
- A photo of your passport photo page
- Photos of every Thai entry stamp from the last 2 years
- on LINE, Telegram and WeChat
- hello@bkklanguageschool.com
usually answered the same day - Lake Rajada Office Complex
Ratchadapisek Road, Klong Toey,
Bangkok 10110
Pick the course the visa is built on
- Thai language course
The script, the five tones, and the Thai you use at immigration.
- Chinese language course
Pinyin and tones first, then characters, then real conversation.
- English language course
Everyday and business English that holds up at work.
Or start from the Bangkok Language School home page to see everything the school teaches.