Tod Daniels

Once you get the 90 day report receipt come out of Room A (where they do 90 day reports) and go to Counter B. <-That's the counter that does TM30's and issues certificates of residence, As Dr Jack correctly stated they'll charge you 200 baht, give you a receipt an EMS tracking number and mail the certificate to the address you used for the 90 day report.

In Bangkok (at BOTH Chaengwattana and IT Square) for 60 day covid extensions they went back to the 'two step process' where you apply for the extension, pay the 1900baht, get an under consideration stamp and then return on that date to get the actual extension inked in From the many many stamps I've seen the under consideration period seems to vary from 2 to 3 weeks. Keep in mind the rule for covid extension states you must take your regular 30 day extension (that you can get from a visa exempt or tourist visa entry) before you can apply for the covid extension AND keep in mind the officer is not obligated to add the 60 day covid extension on to your current stamp unless you're already ON a covid extension. Changing the reason for your extension from tourism to covid means they can start that 60 day extension the date you apply IF they want to (although most places will add it on to your current stamp)

There are two types of agents/agencies out there The one that everyone talks about is the ones that bank the money for you and (usually) sends your passport to another province to get the visa/extension. Then there are ones which are more like "shepherds" or "hand holders". They compile your paperwork, check documents, fill out the forms, make the appropriate copies, get your signature where it's supposed to be, usually make an online appointment for you (OR depending on the fee they charge just jump the queue out there). Meet or take you out there and guide you thru the process I don't know why but the second group (who I call the 'shepherds' or 'hand holders') are much harder to find..

This is how it works here in Bangkok WHERE you go for your extensions is driven by how you entered. IF you came in visa exempt <- didn't BUY a visa from a thai consulate in another country before you came here and were stamped in FREE for 30 days you go to IT Square Laksi Plaza 3rd Floor, for ALL your extensions (regular 30 days & 60 day covid extension) Whereas IF you came in on a real tourist visa <-that you bought from a thai consulate before you came here and were stamped in for 60 days when you arrived, you go to the main immigration office at the government complex Building B on Chaengwattana Road for all your extensions (regular 30 day & 60 day covid extension)

Took me by surprise too !!

I thought the O/P said they were in Chiang Mai Chiang Mai requires 21 days left on their current stamp to apply for ANY Non-Immigrant visa at that office

Christ this has replies all over the place. I freely admit I did not read all the responses (as I lost the will to live after a few of them) The way the combination method works for the seasoning of the funds IS What ever the banked amount you use to offset the short fall in your monthly income has to be seasoned the 2 months before, has to be in the account for 3 months after you get the extension AND then the balance on that account cannot go below 50% the rest of the year. SO if your monthly income was 50k a month (50x12=600k) you'd need to bank 200K baht to make up for the short fall to hit the 800K baht total for the year, You'd need to have the 200K baht in the account for 2 months before you applied for the extension, it'd have to stay IN the account for 3 months after they granted your extension and then the balance could never go below 100K baht the rest of the year. I know this is exactly how it's done as I just had a friend do his year extension at Chaengwattana Counter L-1 and that's what he signed (and held up to have his photo taken with) so he couldn't say next year he didn't know those were the terms. Now some offices say IF you are using the combination method you need to bank xxx baht BUT there is nothing in the police order stating that at all, it just lists the seasoning requirements ONLY

You wanna click that link again, it brought up IT Square Plaza Laksi when I clicked it Maybe they fixed it

You're asking questions NO ONE knows yet. Face it the Lao land borders just opened Monday (and yesterday the Lao border wasn't issuing Visa On Arrival yet for people so they had to wait until this morning to get in) It's gonna take people going there and trying it. Remember before ONLY Savannakhet would issue the year-long, multi-entry Non-O's based on marriage to a thai or raising half thai children without proof of funds. Vientiane didn't require proof of funds but would only issue 90 day single entry Non-O's The other consulate that used to issue those year-multi Non-O's without funds was the one in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam I think you're going to have to wait until some people actually make the run there and report back OR you're gonna slog on over by yourself and scope it out

The new appointment booking system works for EVERY immigration office in the country (all 70+ of them) The bad thing is though, some offices refuse to acknowledge it (or have their own b/s online queuing system) AND Most people who make an appointment but get blow back from the officer when they show up don't have "stones" enough to say they booked an appointment and they expect the office to honor it. At Chaengwattana it works FLAWLESSLY, you show up 15 minutes early, you get your paperwork vetted in the "document check" cubbyhole, then you to straight to counter 32 and get processed. Was there last week for someone getting a retirement extension, we had a 10AM appointment, we showed up at 9:40, they checked the paperwork and they saw the guy immediately. He was done waiting for the passport to come back before the 10AM appointment time. UbonJoe dunno where you see it says Muang Thong Thani as it says IT Square on this choice

Sure reads like the slow motion train wreck that it is and it also appears that the whole ordeal is "self inflicted" by taking the easy out and using an agent for the years they did. Any immigration officer looking at the stamps in the passport AND the data keyed into the computer would know that those were under the table, back door, stamps at an immigration office outta province. I highly doubt they even knew WHERE their extensions were issued (Khon Kaen, Kalisin, Roi Et, Nakhon Sawan, are all GIANT flags especially for someone living in Bangkok. I had one person I was with at Chaengwattana with an agent gotten extension who kept saying he got his own extension in Roi Et last year, the officer asked him the address (which if you lived there and got an extension there you would know) As he hemmed and hawed she asked me in thai if he even knew where Roi Et was? Finally he admitted it was an agent, stamp, we had to file a new TM30, get a note from his thai landlord saying he lives where he does, copy her i/d card, get the 800 baht fine for no TM30, get the 2000baht fine for no 90 day report and then she said he could apply for the extension in bangkok (just an aside he more than met the financial requirements) Funny thing was once we got him 'above the table' the next year he went right back to an agent and got a b/s outta province stamp again. This is the problem that people face using agents/agencies. Once you start down that slippery slope (doing business under the table) it's REALLY hard to get back up and start doing business above the table. Of the many many hundreds of people I know who use agents/agencies I only know of a handful that were able to claw their way back on top of the table and get their own extensions without greasing the wheel. Just because the O/P has a Chaengwattana stamp now doesn't mean that next year they're not going to have to 'grease the wheel' again to get the next extension, I'd wager he's a 'marked man' out there now. To the O/P, glad it worked out, not really a 'shake down', because you could have taken the exit the country option, came back, applied for an in country Non-O visa above the table for 2000baht and then after that applied for the year extension for 1900. You didn't choose that route

Be careful on the eVisa site that you don't mix up choices for an STV (Special Tourist Visa) and just a standard tourist visa with multiple entries. Two totally different visas entirely

Yep it was a rule down there in the south well before the covid lock down of the Malaysian border.

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.