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Compare visa agencies in Thailand for applications, extensions, work permits and residency. See official fees, how to check an agency, and when to use a lawyer.
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International boutique law firm in Bangkok and Phuket, providing legal and tax services to investors, businesses, and private clients across Thailand
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Experts assisting clients in conducting their businesses and protecting their rights and investments in Thailand across a wide range of legal matters.
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A visa agency in Thailand sells preparation and time, not permission. The decision still belongs to an immigration officer, and the filing routes are open to you directly. What an agency does is assemble the file, hold the queue, and turn up at the counter.
Document assembly is the bulk of the work. An extension of a Non-Immigrant "B" for business is granted for no more than a year at a time, and the officer weighs the applicant's income, the company's paid-up registered capital of at least two million baht, its audited accounts, and a staffing ratio of four permanent Thai employees for each foreign one. That file is rebuilt every year, alongside the work permit sitting under a different ministry entirely.
Queueing and appointments are the second function, and the reason many people first call an agency. Counters, the online extension system and the 90-day notification system each carry their own registration and their own opening hours.
The third is authorised filing and accompaniment. This is not a back door. The Immigration Bureau itself sets out four ways to make the 90-day notification: in person, by registered mail, online, or by authorising another person to make it for you. Where you must appear yourself, the agency prepares you and comes along.
The fourth is programme reselling. Membership routes such as Thailand Privilege and the LTR are sold through channels, and an agency is one of them. The programme fee and the agency's fee are two different numbers, and a quote should say so.
Routine goes to an agency. Contested goes to a lawyer.
An agency handles the filings the system expects you to make: applications, extensions, re-entry permits, 90-day notifications, work permit paperwork, dependent visas, membership programmes, and the long paper trail behind permanent residency or naturalisation. The shared question is how do I file this, and with which documents.
An immigration lawyer handles the cases where a decision has gone against you or your right to be here is in dispute: refusals and appeals, overstay, detention, deportation, re-entry bans, nationality arguments, anything heading for a formal proceeding. The shared question there is they said no, what now.
The dividing line is not difficulty. It is whether anyone is arguing. Residency and citizenship are enormous in paperwork and still routine in form, so they sit on the agency side until the day a refusal lands. Plenty of firms listed here do both, so you are choosing a service rather than a species.
Self-service is real, and for some people it is the better answer. The 90-day notification can be done online after a single registration, and the window is generous: from 15 days before the 90-day point to 7 days after it. A clean visa extension with complete documents and a free weekday morning is a counter visit, not a project.
An agency earns its fee when the file is complicated or your time is not free. First applications, company-linked extensions, anything depending on documents from abroad, and anyone who cannot spend a working day at immigration.
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International boutique law firm in Bangkok and Phuket, providing legal and tax services to investors, businesses, and private clients across Thailand
฿7,000–12,000 / hour
International firm in Asia since 2006 — corporate legal, accounting, advisory and audit services across Thailand, China & the Philippines.
Experts assisting clients in conducting their businesses and protecting their rights and investments in Thailand across a wide range of legal matters.
Do they separate the official fee from their own? A quote with one number in it cannot be checked against anything. Two lines can.
Who goes to the counter, and do you go too? Some filings need you in person. An agency should tell you which ones before you book anything.
What happens if it is refused? Ask whether the fee covers a resubmission, and what they say the next step would be. A firm that has a real answer has done it before.
Can they say what they will not do? An agency that names its limits is describing a service. One that has no limits is describing a sales pitch.
The official figures are small, fixed and published. An extension of temporary stay costs 1,900 baht each time. A re-entry permit costs 1,000 baht for a single entry or 3,800 baht for multiple. A tourist visa is 1,000 baht on issue, and a Non-Immigrant visa is 2,000 baht single entry or 5,000 baht for a one-year multiple entry.
Everything above those numbers is the agency's own fee. Agencies set it themselves, it varies widely, and Justenda does not set or police it. Knowing the official figure is what lets you read a quote at all.
Programme fees are a third category. A Thailand Privilege membership is priced by the programme, not by immigration and not by the agency selling it, so ask which part of the total goes where.
Start from the official channels. Once you know what the route is and what it costs, you can tell facilitation from something else.
A guarantee of an outcome is the clearest tell. Immigration decisions are discretionary, and nobody outside the Bureau controls them. In June 2026 Immigration Division 2 opened a fact-finding inquiry into a network of brokers reported to be charging foreigners between 4,500 and 12,000 baht for promises of guaranteed entry, priced by visa type, against more than 13,000 refusals of entry recorded since the start of that year. The Division said any officials found to be involved would face disciplinary and criminal action. That is one reported network, not a description of the market, and it is worth knowing because the sales language it used is the language to walk away from.
An unexplained fee is the second tell. In July 2025 the Department of Special Investigation raided four Bangkok premises of a company selling immigration services to migrant workers, after workers reported a 2,500 baht charge nobody could account for. A line item you cannot get explained is a question, not a detail.
The third is being asked to sign or submit documents you have not read. A lawyer can review what you were asked to sign, and it is a cheap step next to a refusal.
There is no visa-agency licence to look up. Lawyers are different: they practise under the Lawyers Act B.E. 2528, hold a licence issued under the Lawyers Council's licence regulation, and answer to its code of conduct. Because no equivalent register exists for agencies, the checks fall to you. A registered company with a real office, a written quote that splits official fees from service fees, a named person who handles your file, and no promises about the result.
If you are still deciding which route to apply for, this comparison of long-term visa options in Thailand sets the main long-stay routes side by side. The firms below list their locations, languages and areas of focus, and several handle both the filing side and the legal side. This page is general information, not legal advice. For a specific case, speak with a qualified professional.
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