Advice needed

[BillStrangeOgre]

Hi I'm a Brit here on a 60 day single entry tourist visa. Earlier in the year, I entered Thailand two consecutive times on 30 day entry stamps and used up quota of 2 extensions allowed per year (as I understand it?)

Does this mean I won't be allowed to extend my tourist visa at immigration?

 

Thanks for any help 

[DrJack54]

You can extend your permission of stay by 30 days. No problem. 

 

Thinking your confused with land border visa exempt entries.

That is limited to 2 per calendar year. 

[Myran]

There's no yearly quota for extensions. You can extend your current permit to stay (you don't extend a visa).

[BillStrangeOgre]

Thanks for the answers. Still a bit confused though, does that mean I can extend my current 60 day, single entry tourist visa?

[Myran]

4 minutes ago, BillStrangeOgre said:

Thanks for the answers. Still a bit confused though, does that mean I can extend my current 60 day, single entry tourist visa?

Yes, you can extend your current permit to stay. You don't extend visas, they're just used to enter the country.

[DrJack54]

10 minutes ago, BillStrangeOgre said:

Thanks for the answers. Still a bit confused though, does that mean I can extend my current 60 day, single entry tourist visa?

Yes.

You are actually extending the permission of stay (60 days) stamped into your pp when you entered.

The actual SETV is gone (used) when you entered Thailand. 

 

Since you entered with visa if you are obtaining the extension in Bangkok you attend CW.

Visa exempt entries obtain extension at LakSi immigration office..

[BillStrangeOgre]

Thanks for all the help ????

[BillStrangeOgre]

7 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Yes.

You are actually extending the permission of stay (60 days) stamped into your pp when you entered.

The actual SETV is gone (used) when you entered Thailand. 

 

Since you entered with visa if you are obtaining the extension in Bangkok you attend CW.

Visa exempt entries obtain extension at LakSi immigration office..

Good to know! Yes, I extended at Lak Si before

[DrJack54]

Just now, BillStrangeOgre said:

Good to know! Yes, I extended at Lak Si before

Yes for this entry you extend at CW

[BritTim]

2 hours ago, Pattaya57 said:

And the pedantics strike again. OP asked if he can extend his tourist visa, yes he can as there is no 2 extension limit per year like he thought

 

All this "there is no visa extension, you are just extending your permission to stay" talk is a joke. How was it not clear what was being asked?

I am sure hammering on about the difference between visas and permissions to be in Thailand is tiresome for many who do not understand the horrendous misfortunes that have befallen some who fail to understand this almost unique feature of Thailand's immigration system. I do tend to let it slide when there is no ambiguity, but pointing it out at every opportunity does help reduce the number of people whose lives are ruined by not understanding that "visas" usually give you no right to be in Thailand.

[Pattaya57]

Fair enough. This was still a very basic "can I extend my tourist visa" 'yes you can' question though.

 

Answers about no you can't extend any visa but can extend permission to stay just makes it confusing to tourists in my opinion (even OP didn't know at first if he had a yes or no answer)

 

[BritTim]

27 minutes ago, Pattaya57 said:

Fair enough. This was still a very basic "can I extend my tourist visa" 'yes you can' question though.

 

Answers about no you can't extend any visa but can extend permission to stay just makes it confusing to tourists in my opinion (even OP didn't know at first if he had a yes or no answer)

Understood. It is very difficult for people who have never encountered Thailand's immigration system to understand that the "visa" is not what allows them to be in Thailand. You are right. Just saying "yes, you can extend it at Immigration" is probably the least confusing answer in isolation. Helping him to learn that the visa is not his permission to stay might stand him in good stead in the future. It is a trade off.

[Lemsta69]

4 hours ago, Pattaya57 said:

And the pedantics strike again. OP asked if he can extend his tourist visa, yes he can as there is no 2 extension limit per year like he thought

 

All this "there is no visa extension, you are just extending your permission to stay" talk is a joke. How was it not clear what was being asked?

Providing factual information is not pedantry. 

[Pattaya57]

22 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

Providing factual information is not pedantry. 

If a person enters on a tourist visa for 60 days and gets their allowed 30 day extension, do they really care that correct terminology is no extension of visa is allowed as that is an extension of permission of stay? No change in process at immigration so isn't that being pedantic about terminology?

 

[Pattaya57]

Judging by the sad and laughing emoji on my posts you guys are really hung up on you can not extend a visa, however:

 

Can I extend my Visa Exempt entry, yes I can by 30 days

 

Can I extend my 60 day tourist visa, yes I can by 30 days

 

Can I extend my Non-imm O visa, yes I can by 12 months

[BritTim]

A dismissive and demeaning post and replies to it have been removed.

[BritTim]

32 minutes ago, Pattaya57 said:

Can I extend my Non-imm O visa, yes I can by 12 months

That's great. I thought I needed to go back to the consulate for that. Does it still allow me to stay for 90 days on each entry?

[DrJack54]

1 hour ago, Pattaya57 said:

Judging by the sad and laughing emoji on my posts you guys are really hung up on you can not extend a visa

Not me.

I'm hung up on you derailing threads. 

 

From the OP earlier when he eventually understood the replies..

 

"Thanks for all the help ????".

 

Subsequently myself and others pointed out helpful advice such as his extension would be obtained at CW and not LakSi.

LakSi being a location where he previously obtain extension from a visa exempt entry.

 

Please point to ONE of your posts that assist the OP.

T

[Maestro]

Removed an off-topic post, (about travel to the USA)

[Maestro]

Removed some off-topic posts.

 

Members interested in a detailed discussion of the differences between visa, permission to stay and extension of stay are kindly invited to start a separate topic about it. Suggested topic title: Terminology: visa vs permission to stay vs extension of stay

 

[Maestro]

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