Have A Non-imm-b Multi ...

[jdinasia]

this may sound strange, but I have a Non-Imm-B multi that I got in Perth Australia in October. I will be in the US in a few weeks and could easily apply for a new non-imm in Denver. This would move my next big trip off at least 6 months and thus save me some $$.

The particulars, I am picking up a new passport in Bangkok in a couple of weeks before flying out. If I didn't transfer the visa to the new passport and just brought both the old passport and the new one with me to the airport that yould automatically invalidate my current visa when I departed wouldn't it?

[lopburi3]

Your current permitted to stay stamp must be transferred. The visa remains in your old passport.

[Axel]

If your old passport will be void you must transfer the permission to stay-stamp.

If it is still valid (usually mine are) you can leave on the old on, get a new visa into the new one and use that upon return. Really depends on the practise of your embassy.

[ovenman]

Your current permitted to stay stamp must be transferred. The visa remains in your old passport.

You sure about that? When I renewed my passport a few years back, immigrations only grudgingly transferred my current entry stamp. They would have been happier if I had just exited Thailand showing outbound immigrations the original entry stamp in my cancelled (American) passport.

[lopburi3]

US always voids old passport and he will be provided a request letter for transfer of permission to stay stamp and instructions on how to do/where to go.

[ovenman]

US always voids old passport and he will be provided a request letter for transfer of permission to stay stamp and instructions on how to do/where to go.

Right, that's exactly what happened to me when I renewed my passport. What I am saying is that when I subsequently went to the Thai immigrations office in Chiang Mai, they were really not interested in transferring the current entry stamp into my new passport. The immigrations official was advising me to just show the old, cancelled passport when I exited Thailand. She finally transferred the stamp, grudgingly, but probably only beacuse I also wanted a re-entry permit issued against that stamp.

Of course, that was the policy at the Chiang Mai immigrations office on that particular day with that particular official.

[PeaceBlondie]

US always voids old passport and he will be provided a request letter for transfer of permission to stay stamp and instructions on how to do/where to go.

Unless you declare your old passport was lost or stolen, in which case the visa inside that old passport was lost or stolen, also. When that happened to me, in spite of the nice letter from the US embassy, Suan Phlu only gave me a "get out of Thailand free card," and then I had no visa.