primapagina Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 I am a happy holder of a Smart Visa, category startups, sub-category Food of the Future. As you may know, the SmartVisa is a brand new Visa aimed at attracting professional and entrepreneurs and provide many benefits. https://smart-visa.boi.go.th/smart/ for details. Unfortunately, the government forgot to tell the Land Transportation Department about this new Visa. As a consequence, when you go to renew the 5 year driving license, they will not acknowledge the SmartVisa as other non imm Visa (retirement, work, business, marriage, etc). They will just give you a 2 years temporary license, no International driving license and more documents to submit. If you have a SmartVisa like me, please ask the BOI at [email protected] to fix this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackdd Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 7 hours ago, primapagina said: they will not acknowledge the SmartVisa as other non imm Visa Probably because it's not a non-immigrant visa but a smart-visa ???? Government agencies in Thailand usually don't talk with each other, so you might want to contact the Ministry of Transport and Department of Land Transport as well, they are the ones who would have to change their rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofthemountain Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 7 hours ago, primapagina said: I am a happy holder of a Smart Visa, category startups, sub-category Food of the Future. As you may know, the SmartVisa is a brand new Visa aimed at attracting professional and entrepreneurs and provide many benefits. https://smart-visa.boi.go.th/smart/ for details. Unfortunately, the government forgot to tell the Land Transportation Department about this new Visa. As a consequence, when you go to renew the 5 year driving license, they will not acknowledge the SmartVisa as other non imm Visa (retirement, work, business, marriage, etc). They will just give you a 2 years temporary license, no International driving license and more documents to submit. If you have a SmartVisa like me, please ask the BOI at [email protected] to fix this! You are probably new here anyway good luck to you and welcome in Thailand it's a very long way to accept all the nonsenses if you are budhist and very patient it should help a little bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 Smart visa.................????..........???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primapagina Posted November 10, 2019 Author Share Posted November 10, 2019 On 11/8/2019 at 11:32 PM, jackdd said: Probably because it's not a non-immigrant visa but a smart-visa ???? Government agencies in Thailand usually don't talk with each other, so you might want to contact the Ministry of Transport and Department of Land Transport as well, they are the ones who would have to change their rules. @jackdd thanks. The BOI department, which is in charge of the SmartVisa, already promised they will deal with the Ministry of Department for this. I am just looking for other SmartVisa holders, so that they know what the problem is before they go for their license renewal. Also I hope they can also ask the BOI to fix this (with more pressure this might be dealt with faster). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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