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Official Visa — government or institutional assignment

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What exactly is the official special programme/status and why does it exist?

This is the Thai Official Visa. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents it in one combined section headed "4. DIPLOMATIC / OFFICIAL VISA", which says that upon official request Thai Embassies and Consulates-General may grant visas to diplomatic or official passport-holders who wish to assume duties at a foreign Diplomatic Mission or Consulate or International Organization in the Kingdom, and to their family members. The page does not separate the Official Visa from the Diplomatic Visa, so the conditions it states apply to the pair.

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Limits of the record
  • The page treats the Official and Diplomatic visas as one combined section and states no rule specific to the Official Visa alone.
  • 4. DIPLOMATIC / OFFICIAL VISA
    4. DIPLOMATIC / OFFICIAL VISA
  • 4. DIPLOMATIC / OFFICIAL VISA
    - Upon official request, Thai Embassies and Consulates-General may grant visas to diplomatic or official passport-holders who wish to assume duties at a foreign Diplomatic Mission or Consulate or International Organization in the Kingdom and to their family members.

Which specific population, role, circumstance or historical/legal situation does it cover?

The combined section covers holders of a diplomatic or official passport who are assuming duties at a foreign Diplomatic Mission or Consulate or at an International Organization in the Kingdom, together with their family members. Holders of an ordinary passport are not covered here; on the same page they are directed to the Courtesy Visa, which may be granted to diplomatic, official or ordinary passport-holders entering on official duty and/or other purposes.

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  • 4. DIPLOMATIC / OFFICIAL VISA
    - Upon official request, Thai Embassies and Consulates-General may grant visas to diplomatic or official passport-holders who wish to assume duties at a foreign Diplomatic Mission or Consulate or International Organization in the Kingdom and to their family members.
  • 5.COURTESY VISA
    - Upon official request, Thai Embassies and Consulates-General may grant courtesy visas to diplomatic/official/ordinary passport-holders who wish to enter the Kingdom on official duty and/or other purposes.

What circumstance, event, relationship, nomination, invitation or status activates access?

Access is activated by an official request to a Thai Embassy or Consulate-General combined with the assumption of duties at a foreign Diplomatic Mission or Consulate or an International Organization in the Kingdom. The page describes the grant as discretionary: the missions "may grant" the visa upon official request.

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  • 4. DIPLOMATIC / OFFICIAL VISA
    - Upon official request, Thai Embassies and Consulates-General may grant visas to diplomatic or official passport-holders who wish to assume duties at a foreign Diplomatic Mission or Consulate or International Organization in the Kingdom and to their family members.

What sponsor, authority, nomination, certification, evidence or other step must occur before the status can be obtained?

The supporting documents are a Note Verbal and/or documents issued by the foreign government or international organisation, certifying the identity of the person concerned and his or her purposes while residing in the Kingdom. The page sets out no form, photograph, financial evidence or fee for this visa, unlike the Transit, Tourist and Non-Immigrant sections of the same page.

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Limits of the record
  • The page does not state an application form, photograph, financial evidence, fee or processing step for the Official Visa.
  • 4. DIPLOMATIC / OFFICIAL VISA
    - Supporting documents are Note Verbal and/or documents issued by the foreign government or international organization, certifying the identity of the person concerned and his/her purposes while residing in the Kingdom.
  • 4. DIPLOMATIC / OFFICIAL VISA
    - Upon official request, Thai Embassies and Consulates-General may grant visas to diplomatic or official passport-holders who wish to assume duties at a foreign Diplomatic Mission or Consulate or International Organization in the Kingdom and to their family members.

What immigration status and rights result, how long do they last, can family be included, and what happens if the special qualifying circumstance ends?

The page states only that the visa may be granted to the qualifying passport-holders and to their family members. It gives no period of stay, no visa validity, no renewal mechanism, no work or study rights, and no rule about what happens when the official assignment ends.

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Limits of the record
  • The page states no period of stay, validity, renewal, rights or end-of-assignment consequence for the Official Visa.
  • 4. DIPLOMATIC / OFFICIAL VISA
    - Upon official request, Thai Embassies and Consulates-General may grant visas to diplomatic or official passport-holders who wish to assume duties at a foreign Diplomatic Mission or Consulate or International Organization in the Kingdom and to their family members.
  • 4. DIPLOMATIC / OFFICIAL VISA
    - Supporting documents are Note Verbal and/or documents issued by the foreign government or international organization, certifying the identity of the person concerned and his/her purposes while residing in the Kingdom.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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