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I think Thailand is amazing, after being all over the world, but its time to get over it because it is not possible anymore, and they don't want us there anymore. They show it in any way possible.

We already have another way to stay there forever without a course, but I got tired of lies.

The world is big.  

Well according to our school manager which is my friend, Thai now simply reject new students with rich visa history because people (like us) are miss-using it. Prices can range from 21-35k THB, 9 months, not including extensions (ferries/hotels/flights/fees) every 3 months. To take a continuing course he said, is impossible today if you don't speak the language fluently because they test each and every one.

We miss-used it because we needed a Thai visa, and I feel totally fine with it, and to explain why, it is required to have some amount of IQ which some don't have because they feel some sort of ownership over Thailand and don't like that others find ways to live there also, but I can only simply say that if a person register to university in his home-town and will not attend classes, nobody would have any moral problem with it, and it is logically exactly the same in Thailand, you paid, you lazy to come, you did it for friends/visa/degree/you parents/etc. but whatever - lets fight ! ????

So how exactly do you "not using" your re-entry ?

On the airplane I fill the TM, and ask the 30 days?

And what if the officer ask about the school? ( btw the school already finished, it never fit exactly the visa dates)

Can I have another 30 days even I had one on February ? 

Is there any complication where they can just say "you don't take your next flight" ? (showing an onward flight doesn't mean too much these days and they know you can easily book and cancel).

@ubonjoe thanks, that's what I thought, but 2 things:

1. They can't miss the big re-entry stamp on our passports and might ask why don't we use it ?

2. Another 30 days might be a problem because we had 30 days on February,  then in April an ED visa, which might be too much of a stay.

I just have a bad feeling and wonder if they allowed to simply refuse letting us getting our next flight even if it is in the same day.

@BritManToo thanks a lot, what do you mean by "they don't care about stop-overs" ?

Do you mean that showing this flight ticket won't "impress" them, or the opposite - that it might

makes them believe us - that we are going to leave ?

(we arrive at evening, and the next flight is leaving in the morning after)

Thanks , how you doubt it ? ???? after reading here what’s going on with them lately, how wildly they deny people with proper visas based on some “first impression”, no rules, do you think it would look ok to them that 2 young people just left their country after almost a year are coming back again after a week ? 

Wait , everyone here says I can transfer the visa or the stamp but I couldn’t. There is a big confusion.

I have a student visa - a full page print.

in another page I have extensions stamps, each of 3 more months. (3 extensions).

Now, what should be, and what can be transfered? 

Where in Bangkok other than immigration Division 1 I can also go ?  because they where extremely not nice there.

I guess on re-entry I can’t even talk, although the immigration said I can ask re-entry on the airport.

We are leaving Thailand after a long stay on a non ED student visa(and a few tourist visas before). No overstay.

One week later we have to fly to Europe from Vietnam with a stop in Bangkok.

Obviously we both now get rejected entry if apply for the usual free 30 days, especially one week after finishing the non ED and coming back.

How transit in BKK works? Can we stay on the airport for a few hours without passing immigration? We just need to wait for next flight.

Thanks.

Thanks for all the comments.

Visa (full page print) was issued in Laos, last extension stamp issued in Surathani (all of them).

I think by law indeed they can’t transfer the last extension stamp to the new one.

So, is my embassy wrong and I just leave with 2 passports + letter in Bangkok? (I should expect a question why didn’t you transfer the stamp right? )

I have the letter from embassy but they didn’t want to transfer my visa because “it belongs to another province - Surathani”. 
 

I am super worried !!

I have the letter, but did anyone left the airport in Bangkok without doing it? 
 

They insist on the immigration division that I can’t do it, I tried with many officers- they said go out with 2 passports.

What to do? I am currently in Bangkok.
Is there any other authority I can speak with here?

thanks. 

Hi.

i made a new passport in Bangkok and went to immigration division 1.

They didn’t want to transfer my student visa non ED visa or last stamp - to my new passport because I made it in Surathani.

They said in a very unclear English that I can leave with 2 passports.

My embassy said - they might not let you out of Thailand if you don’t transfer your visa, which I also read here somewhere.

Can I or can’t I, go out with 2 passports when one of them is completely empty?

i am worried because the officers on the airport are pretty pedantic.

thanks. 

Thanks, number 3 is not clear. Do I have to do the re-entry at the office where my extension was issued? The school says i can do this in Bangkok (it was issued in Koh Samui).

I am so confused! 

To make a re-entry stamp that allow me to come back, in a new or old passport, do I need to go where i issued the extension, or can it be done in Bangkok?

If done on the airport do i need to show flight ticket for that moment? or can I do it 1 week before i leave ?

Do I need to also move the whole visa (print on full passport page) to the new passport? or only a stamp?

anyone ? i am confused.

Hi.

I asked before but very confused.

I have a non ED student visa for Thai language. I already extended twice, now on the 7.5 month here, out of 9.

I have to make a new passport in Bangkok before we leave, and then i have to apply for a Chinese visa in Bangkok.

1. Do I need to transfer the ED visa+extension stamp to the new passport if I don't come back to Thailand ? or can I leave showing 2 passports ?

2. If I need a re-entry just to make the Chinese visa here (as proof we are students and coming back), where should I do it ? the school said we can also do it on the airport DM, but I read here that I should go to their embassy and that it takes hours and hours. Is the airport better for a re-entry ?

3. If I need to both make a re-entry in the new passport and transfer my ED visa, where can I do both that's fast ?

Thanks, sorry i made it complicated, i just need to prepare the new passport for the China visa.

On 10/20/2019 at 3:47 PM, ubonjoe said:

No problem to leave by showing both passport on departure from the country.

They hand out that letter since they assume everybody needs one and needs to transfer their stamps.

Oh wow, so i don't have to move the visa.

My only problem is that we have to fly to China ???? 

(to make a China visa in Bangkok i need to prove that i have a visa to Thailand in the NEW passport)

Thank you.

Thanks, what i have is an ED visa(printed on a full page), extended for the second time after 6 months(small stamp), so i left 3 more months and I will be leaving within a month.

Are you sure i can leave with an empty passport ?? (showing the old one with the last extension)?

Why the embassy offer to provide me with that letter?

"Unless you plan or returning to the country with a re-entry permit you do not need to have the stamps transferred." 

Not sure i understand, so if i don't do re-entry with this visa, i don't need to transfer at all? go to airport with 2 passports?

Thanks all !

We are attending a language school, and i am making a new passport, not sure what do i have to transfer

so maybe i said it wrong, basically i would like to go out with a new passport so must have the right stamps from the old.

"have to navigate ED extension of stay queue to see officer. " - what do you mean?

Does it takes 4 hours because of the queue? is it done in the same day? do they ask hard questions? (language or so)

Thanks.

Hi.

We live here on a student visa, and my passport pages are finishing, and before we leave i am making a new passport in Bangkok.

My country's embassy says they will give me a letter and i take it to Thai embassy with both passports to move the ED visa to new one.

Question : does anyone know how long such process takes in BK?  what do you need ? what could go wrong ?

Our schedule is tight, if anyone did this, will be happy to hear more.

Thanks.

44 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

"I have doubts when i see how the government behave now."

They behave like that because people had an ED visa for 9 months and don't speak Thai. 

Yea i don't speak Thai and I like it like that. Came only for the visa. (Sure you came for the culture and to deeply learn and understand the tradition and history).

Already paid the bribe(extensions, flights, ferries, and all other things they make you pay every 3 months after you already paid the school and visa fees).

If after 9 months ED visa we make a business visa from inside the country, then leave and come back(a must for the visa) - will we have any sort

of problem when coming back ( assuming we don't speak Thai) ?

The lawyer said there shouldn't be a problem/test on border, but I have doubts when i see how the government behave now.

thanks.

I am amazed to see how much do people here "care" that we are real students and didn't come for the visa.

All westerns, students/retired/etc - are probably coming because they deeply care about the Thai culture ! ????

I don't care about my next ED, because we will never come back here. We (also) had enough.

But from @cerox answer, it seems this question isn't so stupid, and no wonder they do that. Even in Canada they don't.

Since i believe anything can happen now in Thailand, I wonder if after an ED visa(Thai), is there

any case where you leave the country after 9 months, and someone is checking your Thai language ?

Thanks.

I see, so i won't even try.