Tod Daniels

I had the chance to go with a large "visa run/border bounce" company to the Ban Laem border with Cambodia yesterday. It's just under a 4 hour car ride (much longer if it's a mini-van), the border is dead quiet other than produce, freight and local traffic (cambodianz and thaiz). In fact we were the only three foreigners I saw during the 90 minutes we were there. I did not need to cross the border, but the Dutch guy that needed to already had his thai pass approved before we went. No issues stamping out, getting into Cambodia, getting the visa on arrival, getting stamped in, getting stamped out and then coming back to the thai side. On the thai side you take an ATK test (150 baht) and wait for the results before you can stamp back in AND they check your thai pass and proof of insurance. He got stamped back in on a 30 day visa exempt without any issue. It should be noted this person was NOT here on endless covid extensions. They had previously worked here on a Non-B and then gotten ONE covid extension. They had no issues and were not questioned at the border when stamping in. IF you have many many covid extensions your mileage may vary. One interesting thing, when we were driving away, the owner of the visa run company got a call from the thai immigrations who said, NO MORE out/in the same day, and that they were enforcing the old rule of you must spend a night in cambodia. Now whether that is going to be a policy at ALL the border crossings with Cambodia/Thailand or just this one OR if it was just a fluke, no one knows and I think it's gonna take more people hitting the border for a bounce out and back to really know how they're going to do it. This is an FYI post ONLY I didn't post it to get into a pissing match on what the policy is to get in and out of Cambodia by land. I posted it to let people know that a border bounce is indeed possible at this time with the land borders of Cambodia

It sounds like the op is using the evisa system and applying for their tourist Visa online, it has far more requirements than the old mail in your passport and application that we used to do years ago. Believe me they'll email you and tell you if you need to supply more documentation, especially if you use the online e Visa program

No, the TM 30 counter has been moved back to Chaengwattana (counter B), and Visa exempt people apply for their extensions at IT Square Plaza Laksi. The good news for you is if you do need to file a TM 30, the two locations are only 3 km apart.

The land borders to Burma are closed, period, end of story. The land borders with Cambodia are open. You can exit Thailand you can enter Cambodia and then re-enter Thailand as long as you have an approved thai pass & proof of covid insurance. You taking ATK test at the border before you come back into Thailand. I know this is exactly how it works is because I was at the Ban Laem border yesterday. The borders with Malaysia are open. And as people have already stated in other posts the land borders with Lao are opening Monday.

I think the problem is, you are confusing what a visa on arrival is with either a visa exempt entry or a tourist visa arrival as those are three completely different things. So let's see if we can't get your errant terminology dialed in before we answer your question. A visa on arrival is sold to people from 18 countries, for 2,000 baht and they get stamped in for 15 days when they arrive. A visa exempt entry is given to people for free from 51 countries and they get stamped in for 30 days when they show up. As you figured out a tourist visa is bought from a Thai consulate in another country before you wing your way here and when you show up you get stamped in for 60 days. As an American if you showed up with no visa in your passport for Thailand, you would have gotten stamped in for 30 days on the visa exempt program. So to answer your question, yes you can indeed convert a 30-day Visa exempt entry or a 60-day tourist visa entry into a 90 day non-immigrant type visa at the immigration office by supplying the documentation required for that Visa

So you arrived on a 60-day tourist visa, and you took your one authorized 30-day extension? At this time, the only available extension would possibly be the 60-day covid extension program. It runs until May 24th. So when you're close to that date, slog on out to Chaengwattana, counter J, and see if you can apply for one. Worst case they'll say no and you leave when your current stamp is up. Best case they'll say yes and you'll get another 60 days.

They're on both sides of the immigration area up on the third floor. Can't miss em.. ????

Sadly, there is no allowance for this. But, with that being said, separating from your Thai wife isn't getting legally divorced from her at the local Amphur with the divorce decree. So there's no reason to inform immigration about anything. At least not until you're going to go get your next yearly extension based on marriage to a Thai. Now on the other hand, if you do get divorced legally here, you need to go to the immigration office and cancel your marriage extension that day. Then you either meet the requirements for another extension for a different reason (retirement, having Thai children, etc) or you have to leave the country.

Go to the immigration office get the 7 day application for extension denied stamp for 1900 baht that gives you a week to get out. You will pay overstay at 500 baht a day until you get that stamp. Unfortunately, you do not qualify for a 60 day covid extension because you entered on a non immigrant type visa. When the new 60 day covid program started on Jan 26th it specifically stated no non imm visa or extension holders could get a covid extension.

Because of the <deleted> storm this post created (and keeps getting perpetuated by the totally bad advice from the well meaning but clueless Elite Visa staff) I went back to Chaengwattana yesterday AND this is what I found: Now they have a new form, there are 4 boxes you mark. IF you marked you've been outta province in the last 2 weeks you take an atk test. IF you put down an address that the officer thinks is 'high risk' in bangkok, you take an atk test. I marked I hadn't traveled, no one in my family caught covid, and I was not in any high risk areas, that I lived near Suk/Asok, wasn't vaccinated and I got RIGHT thru without needing to test BUT some "beg-packers" that were there (replete with thai beer singlets, cargo shorts, dread-lox & their backpacks) who put down they stayed at Khao San Road WERE sent to take an ATK test as was a person who said they just came back from Buriram last week. I'd say they're sending about 1 in 20 or 1 in 30 people over to ATK test. The upside is that building B at the Government Complex has a FREE antigen (ATK) test site right there so even if you are sent to take a test it's not all that inconvenient for people. Here's the new form

Totally and 100% FALSE reporting by elite.. You fill out a form before you go in to building B where the immigration office is. You don't need to be vaxxed, you don't need an ATK test, you just fill out this form and go right in. Here's the tables in front of building B's South entrance (the one closest to immigrations), that's where you fill out the form, ONE FINAL TIME NOT ATK TEST IS REQUIRED to get in to Chaengwattana the sign should say OR between those requirements. Get the form from the guy next to the sign. Here's the form.. And while I took these images on the 4th of Jan, I was out there again today and it's the same.

At Chaengwattana, they hand you the statement one, the overstay rules, the seasoning terms of the funds, and the STM2 form saying IF the fail to meet the terms of your extension you lose it. They really just have you write the date, your name and sign them BUT I got copies from them a long while ago and just have people fill them out BEFORE we get there. Also at Chaengwattana they have you hold up the seasoning requirement paper and take your photo with you holding it. <- That is so you can't say you didn't KNOW the seasoning requirements next year.

you fill it out like this example you are guaranteeing yourself, and that's why you put "self" on that one line. AND you put the date your NEW extension (the one you're applying for NOW) will expire (so it'll be a 2023 date)

lagarto, that's the old form. Look at the sample ubon joe posted, (the one I sent him from a photo I took on Tuesday morning,). Totally different form now. You are correct, fill out the form and go in. I'm triple vaxxed but marked not vaxxed and got right in no problem.

Here's the new 90 day report weblink from the immigration website. https://tm47.immigration.go.th/tm47/#/login You can appy from 15 days before (actually 2 weeks exact) before down until the due date. Remember you have to file one 90 day report in person to use the online system l

Okay boys and squirrels, here is a very easy way to tell if your new yearly extension reset your 90-day reporting. Ask yourself, when I got my new extension did the Immigration officer give me a report receipt with a new date file the report? If the answer to that is yes and they gave you a new 90-day report receipt with a new date to file the next report, they did reset your 90 days when you got your extension. If the answer to that is no and they did not give you a new 90-day report receipt, they did not reset your 90 days and you file your 90-day report on the date that the current receipt in your passport tells you to. That's about as easy as I can make it for you to figure out.

90 day reporting is at the Muang Thong Thani Immigration office since July 2020. Counter A, you queue up in the parking garage https://tinyurl.com/yckjthdd

I think you've got your wires crossed there Jeff... They are asking about the online TM6 arrival/departure card system (which was far as I know never worked). They are not asking about the online TM30 system (notification of foreigner in residence)

At the immigration offices in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Buriram and one or two other locations you can apply for a new extension extern extern extension when you have 45 days or less left on your current stamp, must other offices are when you have 30 days or less left.

Okay here how it works, as I did outside and talked to the people meaning the tables where you enter building be at the south entrance by immigration for over an hour yesterday. Even if you're vaccinated with two doses and show proof (mor phrom app, vaccine passport or your receipt from the hospital) unless you have a negative atk test within 7 days you fill out the little b/s form any way. My advice, whether you're vaxxed or not just talk a second to fill out the form and walk right in. Here's the images from the south entrance

That "notice" from the agents/agencies came about because of the yearly shuffle of section heads (the higher ups move who runs each office), That's what's taking place at the end of this month AND it will take some time for the 'dust to settle' once the new people get in place. Believe me the system isn't gonna change (it's too big and generates too much baht). Give it some time so the new section chiefs know how many back-door, under the table, visa/extensions their office does and things will go back to business as usual.

Well you got some good and some not so good answers on this thread The real issue is now that your thai children entered the country on their UK passports they're brits in the eyes of thai immigrations. Now as people correctly pointed out children under 15 cannot be fined for overstay and children under 18 cannot be banned for it BUT not having any penalties is not the same as them not needing a visa, all it means is IF they overstay they will not be penalized for it.. The bad news is you can't switch passport nationality inside the country, period end of story. So you're not gonna take their thai passports to immigrations and get them stamped in or get the stamps moved. The ONLY way to change the nationality of the passport you enter on is to exit and re-entry. BE THAT AS IT MAY what you can do is go to the immigration office with their thai passports, their birth certificates, the thai mother and and her thai i/d and you can get the kids a year extension based on being thai Nationals that entered on the passport from another country for 1900baht. That's it, there's no drama, no nothing. I know many thaiz who are stamped into the country on a passport other than their thai one and they all just show up and get this stamp without any fanfare at all Here's what the stamp looks like