Tod Daniels

21 hours ago, Sum Ting Wong said:

A pic of my DTV stamp

Just curious why you blanked out the officers badge/stamp number (that's what is on the stamp border you yellowed out) and the day you entered 😕 

Never saw someone do that before 😉
 

I think you have some of your wires crossed. Either that or I'm mis-remembering what you posted

You needed to go to the immigration office and CANCEL your current extension BEFORE you left the country (just stamping out on it doesn't cancel an extension) You should have taken that paperwork from your old employer to the immigration office, cancelled the Non-B extension of stay (you weren't on any visa).

The immigration office would have cancelled it effective the date on the paperwork, THEN you could have left the country without an "open extension" in your passport

I guess you bounced out and back to Cambodia and came back into thailand, right? If you did that on the 26th of July you would have gotten stamped in on a FREE entry stamp of 60 days (have you looked at the stamp in your passport?) There is no 30 day visa on arrival for thailand and after the 15th of July everyone entering thailand on free entry stamps gets 60 days not 30

How about you look at the entry stamp you got when you re-entered thailand to see how many days you were really stamped in for?      

Now as far as you going to another country and getting a new Non-B visa, you shouldn't have any issue getting the visa from a nearby thai consulate (watch the processing times and whether you need a booked online appt to get in the gate). You also won't have any issue getting IN to thailand on that new Non-B Visa at all, you'll get stamped in for 90 days 

However when you go for the year extension, and they see you didn't cancel that extension from the previous employer, you can/will have issues and get fined for not following the real rules about how it's supposed to be done.

Also in order for you to apply for the Non-B visa the employer gives you a paper from the Ministry of Labour that states they applied for a work permit for you. THEN you come in, get the work permit issued, wait until you have 30 days or less left on your new 90 day Non-B visa entry stamp and apply for the year extension.

You are correct, getting a re-entry permit will keep your stamp "alive" <- although it will NOT add more time to your current stamp it will let you exit/re-enter and get the same expiration date. As far as the work permit, that's between you and your employer.

5 hours ago, magpie3 said:

I have just read a recent piece of text that may mean a 90 day extension close to the end of my 1 year ME visa would not be possible.

 

"the Royal Gazette specifically states stamps are not to exceed the visa validity period. They tightened this up with other visas as well" - forgot to bookmark the page so can't post a link 😒

 

The inference is that my permission to stay ends with the visa expiry date of Oct. 24th whenever I re-enter Thailand. 

Does anyone have insight into the validity of this in the light of the current changes...?

 

 

 

 

I think you're confused or mixed up a bit

IF you have a year-long, multi-entry VISA (that you got from a thai consulate) <- where you bounce out and back in every 3 months to get a new 90 day stamp, you can bounce out/back just before the visa expires and get a final 90 day entry stamp like always.
 

You can get 15 months out of a visa valid for a year 

The only EXTENSION <- inside the country you can get on a 90 day entry stamp from a Non-O visa is either a year based on marriage to a thai by showing the 400K baht in a thai bank account in your name only for 2 months, OR a 60 day one time (visit thai family) extension.

IF you do indeed have a year-long, multi-entry Non-O visa from a thai consulate you bounce out and back every 3 months to get new 90 day stamps for the validity of the visa

12 hours ago, RC8 said:

For some reason their are now lots of appointments available for Savannakhet.

 

6 days out of a possible 9 days have availability 😀

 

I saw that over the last week 😮 appts were not getting booked up as fast at all

6 minutes ago, stubby52 said:

Just did my 1st 90 day after re-entry and was told if returning to same address new tm30 is not required,this is at chonburi office i am on retirement ext.

Doing a 90 report in person isn't the same as the two online systems (TM 30 and TM 47) cross checking passport and addresses

docinbangkok any update? Did you go out and ask them who called, or have someone (like a thai) call the number back and as what it was about? 

4 hours ago, Liquorice said:

I stand to be corrected, but I've known Immigration to refuse a 60-day extension to visit a Thai child, when you're not legalised as the Father, and/or, the child is not living with you.

I'd check the requirements at your own IO before making your plans.

I have not personally seen or heard of immigrations denying 60 day visit thai family extensions because the foreign father doesn't have legal parental rights.

Usually birth certificate, mother's thai house book listing, thai i/d, child's house book listing should work.  

Now year extensions are a totally different kettle of fish

15 hours ago, Rob Browder said:

haven't read reports of denied return-entry at any of those entry-points - maybe you have new info, though.  One definitely must pay the Cambodian side their cut if coming back the same day - or spend overnight on the Cambodian side,

Totally correct, I know of no denial of entries at those borders that I mentioned although I do know that they sporadically do enforce the must stay in Cambodia overnight rule, but as you mentioned there is a way to pay and not stay 😉 

9 hours ago, zmisha said:

Processing time is very bad.
But Cambodian immigration does not waste the entire passport page of a western tourist like Laos does.
Cambodian visa can be printed separately without the need of wasting passport pages.

If you buy an e Visa online before you go you only get the entry exit stamp to cambodia, if you buy the visa on arrival at the border you get a sticker and it takes a full page of your passport

I apologize for giving you bad information early on, I thought it was a pretty straightforward thing that can be done at all land borders all the time.

Evidently it is not as easy as I remembered.

And I just got a reply from a company I messaged up here in Bangkok and this is what they said.

So it can be done it just can't be done at every border every day.

Okay if you're on a 30-day Visa exempt entry and you have not extended it yet by 30 more days you could get the stamp moved to the new passport when you do the extension

otherwise you show both passports when you exit the country and they will stamp you out on the new passport and make a notation that you'd entered on the old one

and

you can indeed leave by land and come back in.

You are not trading country passports you are swapping an old passport for a new passport from the same country and that can be done by land

And you cannot get that stamp moved at the main immigration office up here in Bangkok Chaengwattana, Visa exempt entry stamps and extensions are moved at IT Square Laksi Plaza.

If you're just going to bounce out and back for a new free entry talk to one of the agents that run from jomtien, there's one that leaves every day from Queen Vic hotel I believe. They shouldn't have a problem with you bouncing with both passports.

4 hours ago, steve187 said:

you are not allowed to change passports at a land border ie changing from a USA passport to a UK passport, so maybe its the same with a replacement passport. whereas you can at an airport border

Careful with that answer there, they got a new passport and they're trying to swap an old for a new passport from the same country it would appear and that can be done at a land border without any issue at all

At this time it would appear there is no problem bouncing out and back to get a 60 day entry stamp as the 60-day Visa exempt entry by land was recently made unlimited.

Meaning if you've already milked your two 30 day entries this year by land you should be able to get out and back in on a 60-day entry stamp without any issue as long as you pick the correct border <-by that I mean don't try to exit re-enter at the Aranyaprathet Poipet border.

There are no financial requirements to get the 90-day single entry non-o visa

Based on either marriage to a thai or supporting a Thai child.

Birth certificate,

mother's thai ID,

mother's house book listing,

child's house book listing if you have it.

Your passport, three passport size photos, one to get into lao at the border, two for the application,

copies of the data page of your passport, your lao visa, your lao entry stamp and a filled out application

Remember the Thai consulate in Savannakhet now requires mandatory online booked appointments to get in the gate, and they have three business day processing counting the day you apply

You can only buy an ox Visa in your country of passport origin or a country that you have permanent residence in

On 7/26/2024 at 6:42 PM, Charlatans said:

There is an agent outside Vientiane embassy that can organize a time for you if nothing online for 2000B.

Not the best option but might help.

Just curious, when did you last use the "agent outside the embassy" ?

Totally BS,

The services that bounce people out in back at the Cambodian borders get you out and back the same day.

Just had a service the other day that needed 18 vans to take the people who showed up that morning to the border and everybody got out and back the same day and everybody got a 60-day stamp,

that's 180 people who are living proof you don't need to stay out overnight

You might get out and back on your own at these borders with Cambodia

Ban Laem/Duang Chanthaburi

Ban Pakard/Phsar Prum Chanthaburi

Kap Choen/Osmach Surin

There is a very high chance you will not get out and back at the Aranyaprathet/Poipet border.

Those "I'm going to bounce myself and save money" ideas often end up not saving you any money.