Do you need 6 months validity on your Passport beyond your yearly visa extension(Non-O, marriage or retirement)?

[pluto_manibo]

To clarify, Lets' say you renew your yearly extension on January 1st 2024, would you need to have a Passport valid until June 2025 or would you be able to apply without any isues? I know you need to travel with a passport with nothing less than 6 months before expiration. Does this apply to marriage or retirement extensions? The passport would be valid during the whole period of the visa extension but does it need to have six months validity beyond that? Thank you.

[Lite Beer]

No. It just has to be valid for the length of your extension.

Even if you only had 6 months left you would still get a 6 month extension.

[DrJack54]

Your extension will be granted and will have expiry same date as your passport expiry date.

[bigt3116]

3 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Your extension will be granted and will have expiry same date as your passport expiry date.

No, because his passport has about 18 months validity, he will just recieve the normal 1 year extension.

[DrJack54]

3 minutes ago, bigt3116 said:

No, because his passport has about 18 months validity, he will just recieve the normal 1 year extension.

From the OP ....

"Lets' say you renew your..." 

 

He was asking hypothetical question.

 

Edited August 21, 2023 by DrJack54

[bigt3116]

2 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

From the OP ....

"Lets' say you renew your..." 

 

He was asking hypothetical question.

 

a hypothetical question about having 18 months left on his passport, so hypothetical or not, your answer was at best misleading and at worst wrong.

[BritTim]

He would receive the regular one-year extension. However, even with a re-entry permit, it might be difficult to travel once the passport has less than six months remaining validity. This is mainly because of the immigration rules of other countries, and sometimes because of airline policy.

[Peterphuket]

It is still not 100% clear for me, when i look to my own case, yearly renew retirement extension end of July, passport valid until 22 November (2024)

So, do I have to renew my passport this year?

Edited August 21, 2023 by Peterphuket

[khunPer]

7 hours ago, pluto_manibo said:

To clarify, Lets' say you renew your yearly extension on January 1st 2024, would you need to have a Passport valid until June 2025 or would you be able to apply without any isues?

No, but your extension of stay will never be longer than for the validity of your passport; i.e., in your example an extension for one year, when applying in January 2024, your permitted stay will be for one year to a January-date in 2025. If you re-apply for an extension in January 2025 with the same passport, you will only be permitted a stay until June 2025.

[DrJack54]

6 minutes ago, Peterphuket said:

It is still not 100% clear for me, when i look to my own case, yearly renew retirement extension end of July, passport valid until 22 November (2024)

So, do I have to renew my passport this year?

If you don't renew your pp

then next July when you apply for extension, the extension will be granted but have an expiry same date as your pp expiry.

 

Renew your pp now best idea. 

Edited August 21, 2023 by DrJack54

[Peterphuket]

57 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

If you don't renew your pp

then next July when you apply for extension, the extension will be granted but have an expiry same date as your pp expiry.

 

Renew your pp now best idea. 

Clear, thank you.

[BritTim]

1 hour ago, Peterphuket said:

It is still not 100% clear for me, when i look to my own case, yearly renew retirement extension end of July, passport valid until 22 November (2024)

So, do I have to renew my passport this year?

No, but

(i) if you do not renew your passport before you apply for a new extension in July 2024, it will have an expiry date of 22 Nov 2024; and

(ii) it would be prudent in any case to ensure that a passport renewal is completed by about April 2024 if you might want to travel after then.

[RocketDog]

No, but the extension will only be valid until your passport expires.

[fulhamster]

I had this at Jomtien.

My retirement extension renewed last November, but my passport expired early October of this year.

So the extension expires on the old passport expiry date. When I obtained a new passport and transferred details, the expiry date stayed the same ie October, so in effect I lost a month.

[billd766]

This is a problem that I have.

 

When I did my 90 day report last Friday the IO at Kamphaeng Phet, told my wife that I needed a new passport. She didn't tell me until we were well past the halfway mark on the way home

 

My extension expires on October 31st 2023 and my passport expires on 16 June 2024.

 

I normally do my extension in the middle of October, and that would give me 8 months validity on my passport and plenty of blank pages.

 

I had planned to go yesterday (Monday) but my wife (who is also my driver and translator) is sick and cannot drive the 70 km each way to KPP IO.

 

Whilst I am sure that the IO is wrong in this case, I am not 100% certain, hence the trip to KPP IO.

[DrJack54]

19 minutes ago, billd766 said:

My extension expires on October 31st 2023 and my passport expires on 16 June 2024.

Means that your extension stamp will have and expiry date 16 June..

You can decide to do that but silly idea.

Obtain a new pp now.

Probably don't have enough time. 

You do realize that many countries have a 6 month validity rule. 

[billd766]

1 hour ago, DrJack54 said:

Means that your extension stamp will have and expiry date 16 June..

You can decide to do that but silly idea.

Obtain a new pp now.

Probably don't have enough time. 

You do realize that many countries have a 6 month validity rule. 

That is what I thought was correct, but I want to get the word from the horse's mouth as it were.

 

There is an agent in Bangkok/Samut Prakan that will do it, but at a cost of 11,000 thb. They emailed the forms yesterday. It is a form fillable PDF document.

 

Having been in hospital a couple of times this year I would like to stretch the application out until he start of November to get some money back into my bank account.

 

A line from his email to me.

 

Uk passports are only taking 4 weeks to process now 

 

[billd766]

On 8/21/2023 at 7:09 AM, pluto_manibo said:

To clarify, Lets' say you renew your yearly extension on January 1st 2024, would you need to have a Passport valid until June 2025 or would you be able to apply without any isues? I know you need to travel with a passport with nothing less than 6 months before expiration. Does this apply to marriage or retirement extensions? The passport would be valid during the whole period of the visa extension but does it need to have six months validity beyond that? Thank you.

I suppose that you could look at it in the same way as a visa application. You will need at least 6 months validity on your passport and empty pages as well.

 

I would however like to get the word from Immigration if possible.