Regulations & Information about Visa

The visa expiration date is shown on their passport, depending on the alien’s nationality. Student must regularly check their expiration date. Please be aware that your passport and any visa you hold is always your own responsibility and you are liable in cases of missed deadlines, overstays and any rules/regulations violated. Failure to comply with the rules/regulations may result in fines or, in severe cases, revoking of the visa. Even though the university stands as sponsor of the visa and assists its students in obtaining and extending it, the student visa can only be issued by the Immigration department or an embassy/consulate, on the authority of the government.

Those who wish to extend their stay must submit an application for extension visa at least 1 month before expiration date. The visa application process may differ, depending to the applicant’s nationality and the country where the application is made. Commonly, it takes 2– 3 weeks to obtain a student visa.

Services Offered:

The following Visa Assistance Services are available at the Student Service Hub:

• Changing Visa Type (from Tourist to Education)
• Visa Extension (Extension of Stay)
• Transferring Education Visa from other schools to IIS-RU
• Visa cancellation

IIS-RU Regulations & Procedure for Visa Application

IIS-RU will provide student visas for current students only, which means that students who are not enrolled in class (including term leave) are not entitled to a student visa.

IIS-RU will issue the visa extension document on condition that the student accepts the possibility that the visa extension procedure may not be completed before the student’s visa expires. This means that the student is responsible for the over-stay fine at the Thai immigration bureau as the student did not submit all required documents in time. A fine of 500 Baht per day will be applied if a visa extension does not meet the expiration date dateline. Those who wish to extend their stay must submit an application for extension visa at least 1 month before expiration date.

New students

Any applicant for either the undergraduate or the graduate program who has transferred from another university or language institute must contact the IIS-RU office staff one month before the admission examination date and must have submitted all required documents to the IIS-RU staff to take the admission examination as scheduled. If the applicant passes the exam, the applicant is required to pay the tuition fee for the first semester according to the credits specified for the first semester of each program.

Transfer case

• Students from other university holding a non-immigrant ED visa can extend the visa continuously, making sure the students provide visa cancellation letter from the former university and also apply for visa extension letter at our university
• Students from language institute/ school holding a non-immigrant ED visa cannot extend the visa but must apply for the visa cancellation letter from the former institute/ school, then apply for a non-immigrant ED visa at any Thai embassy.
• New students upon registration will get 6 months visa upon application, the rest of the visa request will depend on student performance and number of credits registered per semester as well.

Graduated students

• IIS will consider issuing a visa extension document case by case for any IIS-RU student who is going to graduate at any level and is currently in the process of requesting graduation.
• If the student already graduated and finished the graduation process but would like to continue the extension of stay in order to participate in the commencement ceremony or other reasons, IIS will not issue the visa extension document.
• Students who finish studies at IIS will get only 2 weeks visa extension in order to obtain a final grade.
• Students holding a visa of more than 2 weeks upon last day of his/ her last semester must cancel the visa and/ or change the visa to other type after completing

 Please note that all the information may change according to the laws and regulations of Immigration.