Hello, my daughter is currently on a training scholarship at Thanyapura Sports Resort in Phuket. They originally had her enter Thailand on a non-ed immigrant visa (I think is what it was called). She had it extended and was in Phuket about a year and a half. She traveled to a competition in Europe in December and as the paperwork for her contract renewal was delayed, she ended up on overstay for a couple weeks; she paid the fee when she left. She now has a US passport - originally was on a Micronesian passport as she's dual citizen. Thanyapura had told her to go to Laos and apply for the DTV, which she did, but she was denied. They said the reason was lack of 500,000 in her account, though the training resort had provided a letter for her to confirm her financial support; the resort said that's all she needed, but apparently they were wrong. We are at a loss now as to what visa she should apply for. Her current contract is for a year. She is back in Micronesia and the e-visa site says US citizens applying in Micronesia must apply online through the Beijing embassy.

Any suggestions as to what visa she should apply for? Or should she just return on visa-exempt? Or is it a big risk of being denied entry because of the previous overstay (though on a different passport)?

Question.

I have a DTV visa valid until 2030. I entered Thailand in December 2024 on a 60 day tourist visa (my DTV had been applied for several weeks before, but not yet issued).

The 60 visa stamp in my passport expires soon, but the paper printout DTV is of course still valid.

I am due to fly out of Thailand in about 2 weeks time.

Do I need to do anything?

Will the expired visa in my passport cause an issue or will it be covered by my e-visa?

Thanks in advance

Hi guys, Looking for advice regarding visa extensions for children under 14. I am currently on a 60 day visa upon arrival and need to extend for another 30 days. My children have one overstay stamp in their passports but weren't fined or not let in or out from our last visit, we plan to keep coming to Thailand over the next few years and don't want to cause any problems in the future but also don't want to pay if not necessary. Thanks for all your replies :)

Question, for many years i been on the non B then covid close the business and changed to non O based on my kid.

However now i am trying to obtaint he non b again. located on Koh samui. they dont let me change from non o kid based to non b. so made me fly out and back in (singapore) to enter on a tourist to be able to apply for non b withouth leaving. however on the day of signature they found a overstay of a signle day. and didnt want to sign. pushing me to go on visa run again to get a new tourist on a blanco page in my passport but i refused to participate in another formula 1 mini van to malay.

im looking to fly out to vientiane, but unfortunatly they booked up with apointments till july. Is there any other embassy's you recommened if you got all your papers in order. ( the company inviation, the education certficate the w32 etc etc)

ah and the internet says that you could walk into a imigration changing to non b but ofcourse in reality it not work or are there any places in bangkok that could do this ?

Look forward to your replies

On a HAPPY NOTE. 😁

WE ALL RECEIVED THANKS today..

with an Update..

For the helpful advice received today from our Members and Moderators.

Many forum members were following the post.

...of the forum member who earlier today POSTED he was on overstay 14 days.... ASKED for HELP.

...he followed all of our Advice...

...went to his Thai Immigration office today...

...was granted the 30 days extension of stay that he should have obtained 14 days ago.

Paid the 500 Thai baht daily fine and STAMPED IN for 30 days from his ORIGINAL ENDING DATE..

Thankfully, the young man can now enjoy the remaining time in Thailand and return home as planned.

Moral of the story...

Pay Attention to your STAMPED in ending date received on arrival. And go your local Thai Immigration office to get your 30 day extension of stay on time... NOT on OVERSTAY.

Comments Closed.

We see a number of posts from people that have applied for a visa from an embassy in their home country but have not received it by the time their flight is booked for. (France and Germany are you listening?). Because they come from a country that allows a visa exempt entry they wing their way to Thailand and then get a free 30 day visa exempt entry stamp.

A few days later the visa they applied for appears in their email. Now they have a valid visa for X number of days and want to know what to do to get the X number of days they’ve been granted. They’re already in Thailand. So they head to an immigration office and say they want their visa activated to give them their X number of days.

It doesn’t work that way. The visa they have gives them the right to stay in Thailand for X number of days from entry. They have to leave Thailand and re-enter to activate the visa.

Depending on the visa they have and the number of days they are looking to stay in Thailand for it may be beneficial to extend the 30 days they got on entry at an immigration office and then leave and re-enter to activate the issued visa, or just leave within the 30 days and re-enter to activate it. There is nothing they can do within Thailand to “switch over” to that visa. They need to leave and then come back.

If you are issued an evisa from an eligible country print it out and hand it to the immigration officer when you enter Thailand. Although the fact that you have an evisa is visible to the officer on their immigration system they may miss that and not realise you have one and stamp you in visa exempt regardless that you have a valid visa.

And ALWAYS check the stamp the officer has given you at the entry desk. Humans make mistakes. I see numerous cases where people have come to immigration and said that they were stamped incorrectly on entry and are now on overstay. The onus is on you to check.

l entered Thailand in March 2020 on 30 day entry (not a visa) from Malaysia.

Then due to covid l got the usual extensions due as were available.

Following that l was unable to leave due to a criminal court case, which was continuously postponed due to covid, until l was eventually acquitted in July 2023.

l currently have no visa and only have a signed document from the court, that l was unable to leave due to the court case.

From what l understand, this means l have been overstaying probably since around December or January 2020/2021 which is the last time l was at an immigration office. At that point l was simply told by the immigration officer to simply comeback when the court case had been completed. Well as mentioned l was acquitted but with little help or l assume the wrong advice from my lawyer at the time, l am obviously now overstaying and wonder if l have any options than simply paying a fine or if l will be arrested if l either go to immigration myself or if l try to leave via flight. l have no wish to remain in Thailand, nor do l have wish to return and just wish to leave as painlessly as possible even if it means a fine and blacklisting or both. l would like to avoid being sent to lDC or having to get involved with the courts again.

Do l have any options that do not require atleast a trip to lDC?

Before anyone makes snide remarks: Yes l am aware that l screwed up and no matter what bad advice l was given it is my own responsibility.

ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS:

We say over and over to check your stamp when you get stamped in. but still every week people make posts about how they were stamped in wrong and didn't notice it.

One more time, we urge everyone to;

CHECK YOUR STAMPS BEFORE YOU WALK AWAY FROM PASSPORT CONTROL

If you get bad stamped it is YOUR responsibility to get it corrected.

NOTE:

If you get a bad stamp at a land crossing no immigration office will correct it except that entry point. <- meaning if you don't catch it there you slog on back to get it fixed..

If you get a bad stamp by passport control at an airport, it's often faster to go back to that airport to correct the stamp rather than going to the immigration office and waiting in the queue to get it done.

This is an example of a visa exempt entry (ผ.30) but they got stamped in for 90 days. The officer picked up the MAY stamp rather than the MAR stamp 😮 This does not mean the person gets to stay until May, their actual date is Mar 23 like a visa exempt entry would give

I have an extensive history of staying on various visas (UK passport, ED visa, Volunteer visa, tourist visas and visa exempt entry + extensions), currently in the UK and renewing my passport.

Will my old passports' travel history be flagged and scrutinised on the immi system at the border, if I attempt to enter on visa exempt entry? (Currently waiting for LTR visa application to be processed)

Thanks

ATTENTION MEMBERS

IMMIGRATION OFFICE CLOSURES May 2023

Immigration offices nationwide will be closed on:

**Thursday 4 May: Royal Coronation Day

Friday 5 May: Special Holiday

Wednesday 17 May: Royal Ploughing Ceremony Day**

* Monday 1 May is NOT Government Offices holiday. Immigration offices are open.

Plan accordingly.

* Land borders are open like normal during holidays.

If you have a stamp that is expiring during holidays when the immigration offices are closed and you show up at the immigration office on the very next working day you will NOT be fined for overstay and can get your extension like normal. But you will get an overstay stamp in your passport that says; "overstay xxx days, fine waived due to holiday/closure".