Lost and Found Passport - Urgent advice required

[Tall Dark and old]

I would like to request the help of this group with my current visa situation it is complicated. On October 28 is this year I was due to renew my visa.  I could not find my passport. I followed all the recommended procedures regarding lost passports including reporting to the police. My password was then cancelled by British authorities So far so good.

 

I subsequently found the passport. Having previously reported the passport lost. I immediately went to the police station and filed a second report. I am now in a situation. Where I have an expired visa Which was due to be renewed. On the 26th of October. I like you guys, right? That was an oversight on my part. I thought it was the 28th. And a passport that the British authorities tell me. Cannot be used. The Thai lawyers I was working with tell me that my passport is now valid again even though I have direct contrary evidence from the British passport office. Almost everybody I speak to about this suggests I need a visa agent. Yet I have never used one, despite having lived in Thailand nearly ten years. Frankly, I do not trust anybody that offers to help me by wanting details of my bank account, my ATM card and my pin number.

 

I apologise in advance if I have left out vital information. Thanks for reading. Can I please get some sensible advice from this group? Thank you for your help.

[BritManToo]

Use your found passport as if it was never lost.

It's validity will only ever be checked if you enter/exit the UK (and maybe the USA).

Go to immigration tomorrow and pay the 15 days overstay and get an extension.

 

Don't mention the lost and found to anyone.

[jackdd]

Do what the poster above said.