Exit Thailand at end of NonB extention, then re-enter on a 60-day tourist visa-exempt stamp?

[guyfromtheweb2]

My non-b-visa-extension, work permit, and job contract all end on January 31st this year.  I do plan to return to my home country, but in a couple of months when it gets warmer.  I would like to stay in Thailand for a couple of more months before I go home. Is it possible to do the following:

 

1. Simply exit Thailand on January 30th or 31st (no overstay) to visit a nearby Asian country for a few days to a week.  
2. Re-enter Thailand in early February, maybe Feb. 5th, on a 60-day-tourist-visa-exempt stamp.  (My country gives us citizens 60-day visa exemptions for Thailand now.)
3. Resume my normal life, not working of course, but staying in the same condo that I rented while on my non-b and work permit without any additional paper work. 
4. Exit Thailand for good to my home country within the allowed 60-days of my tourist visa-exemption, maybe April 2nd.

 

Will this work? 

Any bureaucratic steps that I may be missing?

Do I have to go to immigration and the labor office to cancel my non-b-extension and work permit before I Jan. 31st or will they automatically cancel when they both expire on that date?

 

[DrJack54]

Bumping your thread as didn't receive a reply.

Hopefully someone with first hand knowledge will post.

Here is short thread that makes some points. 

The other part of your plan re exit and at some point reenter visa exempt is fine. 

 

[bigt3116]

To be honest the quoted thread is useless as the OP never said if he was on a visa or extension.

 

However, for the OP of this thread, your simple process should be;

 

Get a letter of termination from your employer, this can be post-dated

 

Take the letter to Labour and cancel your work permit, (it will be cancelled for the post-dated date).

 

Take confirmation from Labour to immigration and they will cancel your extension, (again on the post-dated date).

 

Leave on or before 31 Jan and you are good to go.

 

🙂

[guyfromtheweb2]

4 hours ago, bigt3116 said:

. . . the OP never said if he was on a visa or extension.

 

However, for the OP of this thread, your simple process should be;

 

Get a letter of termination from your employer, this can be post-dated

 

Take the letter to Labour and cancel your work permit, (it will be cancelled for the post-dated date).

 

Take confirmation from Labour to immigration and they will cancel your extension, (again on the post-dated date).

 

Leave on or before 31 Jan and you are good to go.

 

🙂

 

In your first sentence,  are you talking about me, the OP of this thread? Or the OP of the thread that DrJack54 quoted? 

 

If you were referring to me, I think I made it clear in this thread title and in my first sentence that I was on a non-b-extension.

 

I was hoping to skip the hassle of getting termination letters from my job, labor dept., and immigration.  My job contract, visa, and WP all expire Jan. 31st. Do I really need to get termination docs if everything expires anyway?

 

I think I will just risk it, not do anything, exit Thailand on Jan 30th, and try to return as a tourist in Feb after all my stuff expired. I won't even bother to pay my taxes or do any more 90-day reports because I am done being an expat. Back to being a tourist. lol. I doubt they will turn me away at the border.  

 

I will update this thread with how it all pans out.

[Briggsy]

11 minutes ago, guyfromtheweb2 said:

I think I will just risk it, not do anything, exit Thailand on Jan 30th, and try to return as a tourist in Feb after all my stuff expired. I won't even bother to pay my taxes or do any more 90-day reports because I am done being an expat. Back to being a tourist. lol. I doubt they will turn me away at the border.  

That will work from the permission to stay perspective.

 

However if you ever wish to get a work permit in Thailand again or even do extensions based on other reasons, you may encounter issues.

[bigt3116]

4 hours ago, guyfromtheweb2 said:

In your first sentence,  are you talking about me, the OP of this thread? Or the OP of the thread that DrJack54 quoted? 

 

The one DrJack quoted  🙂

[bigt3116]

4 hours ago, Briggsy said:

That will work from the permission to stay perspective.

 

However if you ever wish to get a work permit in Thailand again or even do extensions based on other reasons, you may encounter issues.

 

OP listen to this advice

[kuantalo]

i have similar situation here, but im going back in 2 days before my extension (non-ib) expires. Havent done wp cancellation (not planning to apply wp anysoon) There is re-entry permit in my passport, should i mention it to officer that im not coming back as worker? or is it very clear for them because there is only 2 days left in my visa 😅😆 wish me a luck, going to cross border tomorrow.

[kuantalo]

12 hours ago, kuantalo said:

i have similar situation here, but im going back in 2 days before my extension (non-ib) expires. Havent done wp cancellation (not planning to apply wp anysoon) There is re-entry permit in my passport, should i mention it to officer that im not coming back as worker? or is it very clear for them because there is only 2 days left in my visa 😅😆 wish me a luck, going to cross border tomorrow.

well, didnt go as planned. I had re-entry stamp and they stamped me in with same non-b that is till 27nov. But it has been terminated starting from 15.1.2025 from 1 stop service.

 

IO told me that its okay if you dont work you can still stay till nov.... i know its not true and i tried to explain this situation to her 3 times and showed the document from 1 stop service that states my visa is going to be terminated from 15...and she just smiled and said maipenrai you can stay. 😅 so... i have no idea what to do now. There is new stamp (re entry till 27nov. Should i believe her? i guess not. 

 

 

 

[guyfromtheweb2]

15 hours ago, kuantalo said:

i have similar situation here, but im going back in 2 days before my extension (non-ib) expires. Havent done wp cancellation (not planning to apply wp anysoon) There is re-entry permit in my passport, should i mention it to officer that im not coming back as worker? or is it very clear for them because there is only 2 days left in my visa 😅😆 wish me a luck, going to cross border tomorrow.

 

3 hours ago, kuantalo said:

well, didnt go as planned. I had re-entry stamp and they stamped me in with same non-b that is till 27nov. But it has been terminated starting from 15.1.2025 from 1 stop service.

 

IO told me that its okay if you dont work you can still stay till nov.... i know its not true and i tried to explain this situation to her 3 times and showed the document from 1 stop service that states my visa is going to be terminated from 15...and she just smiled and said maipenrai you can stay. 😅 so... i have no idea what to do now. There is new stamp (re entry till 27nov. Should i believe her? i guess not. 

 

 

 

Your non-b-extension expires on January 15, 2025,  but you have a re-entry permit that expires on November 27, 2025?!  How is this possible?  I thought re-entry permits always expire the same day a visa or visa-extension expires.

 

I am assuming that your original non-b-extension from your job was set to expire on Nov. 27th, which is shown in your passport.  You previously got a re-entry permit that also expired on Nov. 27th.  Then you decided to quit the job before that expiration, so your job cancelled your non-b-extension (in some Thai immigration system) effective on Jan. 15th, which is NOT visibly shown in your passport.  Is this the case?  Do you have proof that your visa-extension was cancelled effective Jan. 15th? If so, then that immigration officer (IO) should be able to see in some system that your visa expires on Jan. 15th, after which date you will be on overstay.