mxyzptlk

Yes, you can get a 30 day extension @ immigration for 1900 baht.

My latest report - Chiangmai.

Online June 2015, successful - approved after two days.

Online Sept 2015, pending but never received anything else - visited the Immigration office.

Online Nov 2015, entered details at 10:00am this morning - approved at 11:13 this morning! WOW!

September report I did on a Sunday. Maybe weekdays are better at a time when there is someone is in each office (Bangkok + local) and their computers are switched on!!

My 3 successful online reports were all submitted on Saturday or Sunday.

18 Nov 2015 is the date of your next 90 day report. So in your case you can report 15 days before that date or 7 days after.

23 Nov 2015 is when your permission to stay in the kingdom expires.

any reason why people are not doing the 90 day report online and avoid the immigration office altogether? Or mail it in?

From what I've heard and read the success rate is hit and miss. To me it sounded like 50/50 at best.

My understanding is it will only work on older versions of Windows Explorer. Some people claim to have had success on Macs only after doing some tweaking and adding" some" other things to their browsers.

At some point sure I would like to do it on the computer as well but I think there's a few more kinks to get worked out of the system. There're other problems I've heard to. And I believe there was a full discussion of this somewhere on Thai visa if you search around.

If you get any news or updates on the success rate please let us all know about it, thanks.

@joeyg: It works on the latest version of IE. I've done 3 successful online reports.

Just done my third successful online 90 day report. I was expecting my report not to be approved and have to report in person, as my permission to stay expires before the next report date, but I was pleasantly surprised that it was approved. Kap Choeng is my designated office.

Would it not matter that your arrival card number and the date you re-entered the Kingdom and perhaps the port of entry would differ from the info that was provided on the extension application?

I very much doubt it .

It would be a minor matter easily resolved by providing a copy of the new card.

Please don't be insulted, but it looks like this is just your opinion and not based on experience.

I've never read any reports of anyone actually doing this.

Perhaps someone who has actually done this can post their experience??

Would it not matter that your arrival card number and the date you re-entered the Kingdom and perhaps the port of entry would differ from the info that was provided on the extension application?

When I was under consideration for my current extension, the IO told my missus that I couldn't leave the country during the under consideration period. Don't know if thats true or not...

i just arrived in fang and at the hotel they didnt ask me anything 350b and finish ahahaha

i love this thailand

The hotel did not wish to see your passport or take a copy of it ?

Me & Mrs M had a few days break at Pattaya recently and my wife handled the checking in process @ the hotel. I didn't have to show my passport at all. Last time I did at the same hotel.

Good advice, I always glance at the stamp before leaving the desk.

If you do miss an error it's easily fixed for free (apart from your time of course) at your local immigration office.

+1

Flight No doesn't have an asterisk beside it, so it appears it is not a required field.

Given name and middle name are also not required fields....I only entered my surname in my 2 successful reports.

Better not to enter any fields which are not required IMHO

Yes. I've done it twice. Last time was Dec 2014. I guess it depends on your immigration office.

You should try doing it on line. Some people have gotten approved online reports after being out of the country.

If not approved then you would need to do it in person.

well i have tried 2 times to do it on line .the site is so slow and i never get to the 2nd pg of report is there issue with them there ? or do you have a better link ? i have used chrome and edge no luck . fill out first page then it hangs . nevers gets to page 2 , any ideas here .

Use IE or ietab plugin for chrome

it was approved on the 14th so 90 days from the 14th correct?

It's the date you reported. If you reported and were approved on the 14th then yes. It's the report date not the approval date unless the same.

For my last 2 online reports, the next report due date was 90 days from the date of approval. My office is Kap Cheong

^^^ I entered the kingdown in March 2015 and have done two 90 reports online since then. I did not report in person after my re-entry into the Kingdom.

No problem for me @ Korat & Kap Choeng offices. I've gone from an extension based on retirement to one based on marriage then back to retirement then back to my current permission to stay based on marriage....

I left & re-entered the kingdom earlier this year and did not have to report in person. I have sucessfully done 2 online reports since my return. I expect my next report (due in November) not to be approved and have to report in person, as my permission to stay expires in December.

Thanks for the excellent informative post Spambot

I reckon that if no money is withdrawn they assume that you have another source of income to live on...potentially as a result of illegally working....this is just my opinion, so please if you don't agree....don't flame me...just trying to help / clarify

I agree with you but what work are we supposed to able to do? Other than TEFLering there is nothing else?

Ah Yes, Sinbin....but your statement is based on the use of logic & common sense.....which are often (but not always) endangered species here in the Kingdom.

BTW I was agreeing / supporting you views

Last entry.

What does "NON -RE" mean ?

Thats the stamp on a re-entry permit

It is not. It is the handwritten note on the entry stamp written just after the printed "visa class". If you have a "retirement visa", you'll have that on your entry stamp too.

I don't have aritirement visa.

Are you saying that.a "non-immigrant O-A visa" is the same as a "non-O visa"?

Have I understood correctly ?

Don't try too hard to understand all that.

Basically with an O-A visa, the non-immigrant part is implied as all O visas are non-immigrant visas.

O-A is plenty clear but if you want to expand on that, that's fine too. But I wouldn't!

If you contact the Thai embassy in your home country and ask about applying for an O-A visa, there will be no confusion about what you want.

There is no such thing as an immigrant O-A visa.

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I disagree. Mostly it is referred to as a non-O visa, for short. It's irrelevant that there might or might not be an "immigrant O-A visa", because the "non-immigrant" part is intended to let recipients know that they are not classed as immigrants and must continue to get extensions in order to stay in Thailand, and report every 90 days.

It's an important descriptive word. If it was't, they wouldn't use it on the visa, would they?

You've been rather pedantic in many posts on this thread, so bear with me as I attempt to do the same:

1. My visa obtained from the immigration office in Chonburi is indicated very clearly, in huge letters on top : NON-IMMIGRANT VISA

The category is indicated by the letter 'O'.

2. My wife's visa, obtained from the Thai Consulate in Vientiane is printed as follows:

Type of visa: Non-Immigrant

Category: O

3. Every single re-entry permit I have has "NON IMM." written in huge letters on top - bigger than any other letters on the stamp. In addition to this, in the body of the stamp (re-entry permit) there is no mention of O. It only has "Category: Non-Imm."

4. All my entry stamps are marked: Visa Class: NON-RE (handwritten by IO upon entry)

Now you're telling me that the non-immigrant status is unimportant and implied.

What does "NON -RE" mean ?

Thats the stamp on a re-entry permit

Even the O-A no longer states anything about retirement. In the past it used to have hand written above the word CATEGORY Long Stay but the last time that was written on my O-A Multiple, was in 2009 and 2011. Ever since it just shows O-A

Seems logical to me to call something what it really is....an O-A VISA is an O-A VISA is an O-A VISA

If you insist on being correct, why are you using an abbreviation? There is no "O-A Visa". It's a "non-immigrant O-A visa", mostly abbreviated to "non-O-A visa".... or the more common "non-O visa".

I never insisted on being correct PAL....I just voiced my opinion.....but if you think a non immigrant O-A is the same as a non immigrant O visa then you obviously don't know what you are talking about as indicated by your post...