Cancelling a visa extension

[brez66]

Hoping someone can help with information about this. My employment in Thailand will cease in 4 days time. I handed in my 30 days notice due to a dispute over salary that is still ongoing at the Labour Office. I was planning to get out of Dodge the day after I leave work and try and get a 60 day tourist visa in Savannakhet. I have read in some places that if I have a visa extension in my passport I have to fly out of the country rather than cross a land border. I asked a visa run company here and they said I could get a 30 day visa exemption stamp as the Cambodian border but I would have to pay 1500 baht tea money to the Thai immigration officials at the border to process my 'visa-less' passport. I'm not too keen on pay9ng tea money any more - I'd rather spend it on a flight if it proves necessary. Does anyone know what the official rule is about cancelled visa extensions and valid options for crossing the border?

 

Thanks

 

 

[ubonjoe]

Never heard of paying 1500 baht when leaving the country to have your extension of stay based based upon woking canceled (it is not a visa).

Your dated resignation may be enough to have it canceled or you could as for a termination letter stating you jobe ends.

Immigration wants proof you are not just bailing out on your job without informing them.

[Nanaplaza666]

I dont understand the visa run companies still send you to cambodia , i geuss they would send you to poi pet and you would get problems there for sure . The visa run companies make good money from the runs why make a bad name for themselfs by sending people to poi pet ? 

[JackThompson]

Getting out by air will work, but any future extension-of-stay from immigration could prove problematic, if you did not Officially Cancel your stay based on employment before leaving. 

 

Usually, this is done with a letter from your job, giving a termination date.  As UJ said, you could try doing it with a signed-resignation letter.  On your last-day, you must either leave the country, or purchase a 7-day extension from immigration for 1900 Baht.  Do that at a local office before departing, and you are in the clear.

[brez66]

Thanks everyone for the advice. I guess I have let things get a little but late in the day. I handed in my resignation letter at the start of September and today is Sept 30 - officially my last day at the office. My boss has not given me a letter confirming my termination of employment and I have been told by immigration that I need my company to cancel my work permit first and get a letter from the labour office confirming that this has been done before they will cancel my extension of stay. I am in a dispute with my boss over unpaid salary so he may not be minded to help me out here.

My worry is that when it does get cancelled it will be all backdated to today's date and I will be hit with a large overstay fine. My extension of stay is valid until July next year but my work permit expires at the end of November. I am thinking I should just keep working here until my boss agrees to go and cancel the work permit. Anyone got any thoughts or advice.