INFOGRAPHIC: Visa amnesty extension officially made law, confirmed by Thai Immigration

[DrJack54]

2 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

It is unknown at this time when they will be due. When they decide the order is not going to be extended beyond July 31st they will make an announcement for the will be due. They certainly will not want everybody doing them on August 1st.

Surely only one option available. Ubonjoe I note you skipped your due 90 day report April 18.  That means you will also skip next report ~ July 18.

That surely means (if amnesty ends July 31) your next 90 day report will be ~ Oct 18

[expat0123]

I'm a bit lost here, I'm on a 1 year non-o, my current admitted until is 29th of May and my visa expires on June 9th

 

What are my options?

[DrJack54]

Just now, expat0123 said:

I'm a bit lost here, I'm on a 1 year non-o, my current admitted until is 29th of May and my visa expires on June 9th

 

What are my options?

Non O one year? 

Give more details you. 

Your visa expires matters little.

Admitted date May 29 means you can stay here till July 31

[NoshowJones]

On 4/24/2020 at 4:18 PM, theVenerable said:

Yet I only get a three day extension on my under consideration visa and was told to come back in three days.
Sounds great.

Everyone please go to immigration office and check first  if you are due to go there.

Listening to the dross in here could get you a hefty overstay fine

True, but go by what UbonJoe says and you won't go wrong.

[Agusts]

People seems to interpret this amnesty different ways,  I think the point that they don't want overcrowding in immigration totally supersede the point if this is only for people who need to go abroad due to immigration status.

 

Hence your interpretation is not that logical, and I think the amnesty is for all visas and extensions whatsoever.

 

And as for IO office being open, of course they are and if you "can" then no problem going there and do your thing, the point is not everybody needs to rush in and fill up the place. They actually want slow drip work, imagine if we all go on 1 August... !!!!?

 

As for us in Phuket, we can't even go to the next town a few kilometers away to our banks, let alone to immigration office in Phuket Town, so how are we to renew our extension according to your interpretation. I think someone has spoken to head of Phuket IO and they confirmed amnesty covers all , incl. 1 year retirement extensions - see the Phuket News website.

 

So the logical interpretation is if you are lockdown and can't prepare your documents and cannot get to IO office, wait until you can, the amnesty covers you.

 

If you "can" do all that, then why not go ahead and do it,  why would you really want to wait when it is nice and quiet now....! Doesn't it make more sense...????

 

 

 

Edited April 25, 2020 by Agusts

[smedly]

35 minutes ago, Agusts said:

People seems to interpret this amnesty different ways,  I think the point that they don't want overcrowding in immigration totally supersede the point if this is only for people who need to go abroad due to immigration status.

 

Hence your interpretation is not that logical, and I think the amnesty is for all visas and extensions whatsoever.

 

And as for IO office being open, of course they are and if you "can" then no problem going there and do your thing, the point is not everybody needs to rush in and fill up the place. They actually want slow drip work, imagine if we all go on 1 August... !!!!?

 

As for us in Phuket, we can't even go to the next town a few kilometers away to our banks, let alone to immigration office in Phuket Town, so how are we to renew our extension according to your interpretation. I think someone has spoken to head of Phuket IO and they confirmed amnesty covers all , incl. 1 year retirement extensions - see the Phuket News website.

 

So the logical interpretation is if you are lockdown and can't prepare your documents and cannot get to IO office, wait until you can, the amnesty covers you.

 

If you "can" do all that, then why not go ahead and do it,  why would you really want to wait when it is nice and quiet now....! Doesn't it make more sense...????

 

 

 

if I take your advice and let my my 12 month extension expire are you going to pay the expenses I incur and anyone else same

[Russell17au]

People are reading this amnesty is to stop people from going to their local IO, that is wrong. The only amnesty that is in place for that is the suspension of people going and doing their 90 day reports at their local IO's, this reduces the amount of people at the IO's. If your extension expires before the 31 July you still need to go as usual and renew your extension at your local IO, if you fail to go and renew your extension then you will have to leave the country at the end of the amnesty and get another 90 day Non-Imm "O" visa and start the process all over again. The amnesty is for those who must leave the country when their visa expires and they cannot leave because of the closure of borders. That is people that have 30/60/90 day visa's and those that have 90 day permission to stay (not extension) stamps in their passport

[Russell17au]

8 hours ago, smedly said:

if I take your advice and let my my 12 month extension expire are you going to pay the expenses I incur and anyone else same

smedly, the only amnesty you get is the suspension of doing your 90 day report at the IO. You must renew your extension as you normally do. 

 

[essox essox]

2 minutes ago, Russell17au said:

smedly, the only amnesty you get is the suspension of doing your 90 day report at the IO. You must renew your extension as you normally do. 

 

thats how i see it too......I wish people would read the BIG BOLD info in defferent kinds of blue colour !!!

[marvin1950]

RUSSELL17 AU:

How can I renew my retirement extension now without the July 31 suspension if I am on lockdown and cannot getto the Immigration office.

Patong lockeddown cannot getto Phuket town.

[ubonjoe]

16 minutes ago, marvin1950 said:

How can I renew my retirement extension now without the July 31 suspension if I am on lockdown and cannot getto the Immigration office.

Patong lockeddown cannot getto Phuket town.

When is your extension due? The lockdown may end by the end of this month.

Phuket immigration has set up mobile offices for people to use as well.

[Peter Denis]

24 minutes ago, Russell17au said:

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You must renew your extension as you normally do.

...

Yes, that's correct.

When you are on a 1-year extension of stay you need to visit your IO to re-extend before your permission to stay has expired.

It is possible that some IOs will be lenient if you did not do so and you have good arguments for not having done it (e.g. full lock-down actually preventing you from doing it).  But there are already 2 reports of IOs that stated you would have to exit Thailand and have to apply from scratch again, if the window in which you were expected to do extend your 1-year permission to stay, expired.

[jackdd]

40 minutes ago, Russell17au said:

If your extension expires before the 31 July you still need to go as usual and renew your extension at your local IO, if you fail to go and renew your extension then you will have to leave the country at the end of the amnesty and get another 90 day Non-Imm "O" visa and start the process all over again.

Then why does the Immigration Bureau say "Once the situation is resolved, such alien must apply for visa extension" if they would not be allowing people to apply for an extension? (see the infographic in OP)

Edited April 26, 2020 by jackdd

[Agusts]

23 minutes ago, marvin1950 said:

RUSSELL17 AU:

How can I renew my retirement extension now without the July 31 suspension if I am on lockdown and cannot getto the Immigration office.

Patong lockeddown cannot getto Phuket town.

That is exactly the amnesty is for, it only makes sense, but some people here on this forum don't get it. Hopefully we get more info when people contact IO offices and/or try to go through the restriction checkpoints and are told you can't travel by showing your passport and extension expiry date, because immigration has given you amnesty...!

[Agusts]

8 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

When is your extension due? The lockdown may end by the end of this month.

Phuket immigration has set up mobile offices for people to use as well.

Most part of Phuket will still be in lockdown in May, they are considered "risky" area, so those sub-districts will not be open. Mobile IO offices are no longer around,  and they never accepted 1 year extensions renewal, with this amnesty there is no need for them...

[bbi1]

17 hours ago, johnny1966 said:

What do mean "Aussies are stuck here until the end of this year?" Aussies can fly back to Australia now if they want, quarantine conditions apply.

How exactly? There are no flights between Sydney and BKK. Qantas and Thai Airways have cancelled all flights since a month ago.

[xenophon]

Hi ubonjoe,

Still the most reliable and patient poster on thaivisa IMO. 2 questions from an old fart like me. Thank you in advance for your patience as you have probably answered them before (I could not find similar case)

 

1. My non-immig visa for employment and my work permit end on May 31. Does the extension to July 31 apply to me

2. What procedures if any do I have to go through e.g. do i have to go to CW and fill out a form before May 31 or something else?

 

Thank you

[ubonjoe]

40 minutes ago, xenophon said:

1. My non-immig visa for employment and my work permit end on May 31. Does the extension to July 31 apply to me

2. What procedures if any do I have to go through e.g. do i have to go to CW and fill out a form before May 31 or something else?

1. I assume you are on a one year extension of stay not a 90 day entry from a non-b visa. If on an extension of stay I suggest you apply for your extension before it expires.

Technically the exemption may apply in your case but it is unclear that you will be able to easily apply for it without a problem. Immigration could consider the "auto extension" as not a extension of your current permit to stay from a non-immigrant visa entry. If that happened you would have to go out for a new visa.

2. If chose not to do the extension you would not have to do anything at immigration.

[ubonjoe]

58 minutes ago, Agusts said:

Most part of Phuket will still be in lockdown in May, they are considered "risky" area, so those sub-districts will not be open. Mobile IO offices are no longer around,  and they never accepted 1 year extensions renewal, with this amnesty there is no need for them...

That depends upon whether they still have the  authority to order a "lockdown" after the new emergency decree that has to be issued this week allows it.

[smedly]

2 hours ago, Russell17au said:

smedly, the only amnesty you get is the suspension of doing your 90 day report at the IO. You must renew your extension as you normally do. 

 

fully aware of that

[Raymonddiaz]

I’ve just renewed my non b visa extension for another year and the immigration officers were unusually very nice. Everything went smoothly and faster. In Less than 2 hours, everything was done.

[BritTim]

4 hours ago, bbi1 said:

How exactly? There are no flights between Sydney and BKK. Qantas and Thai Airways have cancelled all flights since a month ago.

There are no direct flights. However, connecting via places like Tokyo is feasible at a price. Check out SkyScanner to view your options.

[bbi1]

9 minutes ago, BritTim said:

There are no direct flights. However, connecting via places like Tokyo is feasible at a price. Check out SkyScanner to view your options.

Won't be possible because:

 

JAPAN - published 16.04.2020 
1. Passengers who have been in Albania, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China (People's Rep.), Chinese Taipei, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong (SAR China), Hungary, Israel, Indonesia, Korea (Rep.), Kosovo (Rep.), Latvia, Lithuania, Macao (SAR China), Malaysia, Mauritius, Moldova (Rep.), Morocco, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Thailand, Turkey, USA, United Kingdom or Viet Nam in the past 14 days are not allowed to enter.

[Puccini]

6 minutes ago, bbi1 said:

Won't be possible because:

 

JAPAN - published 16.04.2020 
1. Passengers who have been in ...Thailand...in the past 14 days are not allowed to enter.

Does this apply also to transit passengers who change to a connecting flight at the same Japanese airport?

[bbi1]

Just now, Puccini said:

Does this apply also to transit passengers who change to a connecting flight at the same Japanese airport?

No idea. Anyone knows if it does or not?

[ubonjoe]

27 minutes ago, Puccini said:

Does this apply also to transit passengers who change to a connecting flight at the same Japanese airport?

I think transiting is allowed. No mention of it not being allowed in the very long list shown here.

https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/international-travel-document-news/1580226297.htm

[The Word]

On 4/25/2020 at 9:43 AM, Finlaco said:

The infographic works well but obviously is silent on the several thousand aliens who have the Under-consideration Stamp (please return April 30).

Several thousand?  Where did you get that figure from?

[The Word]

On 4/25/2020 at 10:20 AM, timewilltell said:

And still they can't really be clear apparently. All types of Visa is ambiguous and UbonJoe to whom I defer believes this to mean not those on extensions. Could immigration not just set out something that is clear and unambigous? I'll just go because unless I hear it from Immigration themselves I'll have no confidence - even then I am not confident really since all the IO seem to have their own slightly different views on what the laws mean. It is pretty frustrating - which maybe is the idea anyway - who knows.

It couldn't have been made any clearer as right from the start they have been referring to visitors with visas expiring from a specifically stated date, they have made no mention of extensions of stay, which are not specifically expiring visas.   If you have a recently expired visa you qualify for the changes, if you're on an extension, you don't.

Edited April 26, 2020 by The Word

[The Word]

On 4/25/2020 at 11:55 AM, Roy Baht said:

And people on extensions should continue 90 day reporting too?

No, it has been stated, very clearly, that 90-day reporting is not necessary.

 

Edited April 26, 2020 by The Word

[The Word]

On 4/25/2020 at 12:40 PM, Ian Nagle said:

But it says it applies for ALL TYPES OF VISAS. I think you are wrong. 

My retirement visa expires on June 15 but as i read it, now exoires 31 July. 

Or am i WRONG ?

I believe that your interpretation is wrong, you're not on a visa, you're on an extension of stay so you should renew it when it is necessary.