Visa extension does not count as 90-day report

[bamboozled]

This is surely all over the forum but I missed this info somehow. So I'm repeating it here in case it benefits somebody. I got a visa extension about 3 months ago and thought that would count as a 90 day report. When I went to do my 90 day report recently, surprise to me, I had to pay 2000 baht for overstay. My last entry into Thailand was in August and that's when the 90 days started. My visa extension in September had no bearing on it. It doesn't really make sense to me as the visa extension goes a lot further in proving where you are and what you are doing. But alas, it seems the two systems operate independently.

 

Take heed.

[Celsius]

It does count as 90 day report because when you do extension they also report your address.

 

But please do tell where you obtained it because this might be one of those special offices outside Bangkok.

 

 

 

[bamboozled]

Chiang Mai. It didn't count for me. Hmm, I might have dug my own grave, as it were. I put my date of entry as August (the true date of entry) and not the date I got the visa extension. The officer told me the extension doesn't count but perhaps it wouldn't have been an issue if I had put the extension date. But that would not have been a truthful answer to when I entered Thailand.

 

I'm 2000 baht lighter now. That much I know.

[Upnotover]

I understand the date you apply for your very first extension does count as day 1 of your 90 day period.  But thereafter not on subsequent extensions.

[Negita43]

In Korat I recently did a residence report after returning to Thailand they gave me a 90 day date close to my non O renewal date and told me to do the visa extension renewal on (or near I presume - I never leave anything to the last minute) the 90 day date.

[DrJack54]

Post above @Upnotover is correct.

The only time 90 report has anything to do with extension is for first extension from the non O.

From then on unrelated. 

As usual immigration offices vary.

It's possible few offices may do the TM47 when obtaining an annual extension as a  courtesy.

[oldcpu]

Some years back I went for a Type-OA one year extension at same time my 90 day report was due. This was at Phuket Immigration. 

 

I didn't have to say anything. 

 

The IO immediately noted this, he entered some things in his computer,  and handed me a slip of paper when next 90 day report due.

 

So perhaps as suggested this is Immigration office specific or maybe even individual IO specific. 

 

 

[DrJack54]

13 minutes ago, oldcpu said:

The IO immediately noted this, he entered some things in his computer,  and handed me a slip of paper when next 90 day report due.

Nothing strange there.

The io was assisting you.

That is anomaly.

Happened to me once at my annual extension.

The io started to do 90. Report .

I stopped him as I had mail report in 🚂 

[Mutt Daeng]

16 hours ago, bamboozled said:

This is surely all over the forum but I missed this info somehow. So I'm repeating it here in case it benefits somebody. I got a visa extension about 3 months ago and thought that would count as a 90 day report. When I went to do my 90 day report recently, surprise to me, I had to pay 2000 baht for overstay. My last entry into Thailand was in August and that's when the 90 days started. My visa extension in September had no bearing on it. It doesn't really make sense to me as the visa extension goes a lot further in proving where you are and what you are doing. But alas, it seems the two systems operate independently.

 

Take heed.

You were not on overstay. Overstay is when you remain in Thailand after your permission to stay has expired.

[impulse]

Here's the stamp in my passport from 2016 when the same happened to me at the One Stop in Bangkok.

 

 

[bigt3116]

17 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

The only time 90 report has anything to do with extension is for first extension from the non O.

 

Just to add/clarify, it is for the first extension from any non-immigrant visa, not just a non-o