I have a Thai Wife Visa extension. I returned to Australia the other night and used the smart gates to leave. I just realised that there are no exit stamps now in my passport and my re-entry permit is just sitting in the passport. 

Have I done the wrong thing by using the smart gates and will I be allowed back in under my existing extension?

 

No problem.  I exited through the e-gate at BKK last month and re-entered by land on my re-entry permit.  Nothing said.

13 minutes ago, Coota said:

I just realised that there are no exit stamps now in my passport and my re-entry permit is just sitting in the passport.

First up no need to be concerned.

 

What do you mean by ..."...my reentry permit is just sitting in the passport" 

@Coota

 

Your re-entry permit is only used when you RE-Enter LOS. When Leaving your re-entry is not looked at.

 

The Re-Entry permit is just a way to keep your current Extension of Stay alive, if you would leave without it, and return to LOS, then you would have to start the whole process of getting an extension all over again, and that can be big hassle.

10 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

First up no need to be concerned.

 

What do you mean by ..."...my reentry permit is just sitting in the passport" 

I guess the member means that nobody (i.e. immigration staff) have stamped the re-entry stamp 'USED'. 

1 minute ago, scorecard said:

I guess the member means that nobody (i.e. immigration staff) have stamped the re-entry stamp 'USED'. 

 

It hasn't been USED yet.

It will be when he RE-ENTERs.

5 minutes ago, scorecard said:

I guess the member means that nobody (i.e. immigration staff) have stamped the re-entry stamp 'USED'. 

It would be stamped on reentry to Thailand.

Thank you all for your replies. @DrJack54 I meant the pass was just ignored.......by the smart gate.

1 hour ago, Coota said:

Thank you all for your replies. @DrJack54 I meant the pass was just ignored.......by the smart gate.

Neither the smart gate software nor any Immigration Officer is interested in whether or not you have a Re-entry Permit. It becomes an issue only on your return.

From a recent experience I got the impression that immigration is now proactively encouraging the use of the electronic exit gates at Suvarnabhumi airport (BKK)

 

Using the fast track, for which I qualify, on departure from BKK I walked towards the two manned immigration desks but was stopped halfway by an official and directed to the nearby electronic lane. So now, for the first time, I have no exit stamp but I know that this will be no problem when I travel to Thailand again. I meant to get the exit stamp merely for the silly reason tha I like to see them neatly lined up next to the entry stamps in my passports.

2 hours ago, Coota said:

Thank you all for your replies. @DrJack54 I meant the pass was just ignored.......by the smart gate.

 

If your passport was not scanned and your face was a not photographed, then your "pass", ie your passing through the electronic gate, was indeed "just ignored". I doubt, though, that this was the case.

 

I remember that on my passing, I first had to insert my passport's ID page into a scanner, or perhaps I only had to place the passport on a scanner in a specific way to get the embedded chip read, I can't quite remember it. A couple of seconds later I had to go to a camera a few steps ahead for a facial scan. The camera seemed to have a problem but after I took my spectacles off I got the green light and the gate opened.

2 hours ago, Maestro said:

I have no exit stamp but I know that this will be no problem when I travel to Thailand again.

 

Not by air.

 

Has anyone had difficulty at an isolated land crossing why they were not stamped out?

14 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

Not by air.

 

Has anyone had difficulty at an isolated land crossing why they were not stamped out?

 

I am not aware of any land border crossing that is not connected to the immigration computer system. Stamps can be easily faked - what counts is what is in the system.

15 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

Not by air.

 

Has anyone had difficulty at an isolated land crossing why they were not stamped out?

I did this last month, exit BKK, no stamp.  Re-enter by land Chong Mek.  No issues.

19 hours ago, Coota said:

Thank you all for your replies. @DrJack54 I meant the pass was just ignored.......by the smart gate.

Auto gates can only read the bio page and do facial recognition and possibly fingerprints but cannot read anything else in the passport.

With departure gates not too much of an issue but why entry auto gates are normally restricted to certain passport holders.

20 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

It hasn't been USED yet.

It will be when he RE-ENTERs.

I have never had a re-entry permit stamped on entry, but then they are always multiple.

Obviously the OP is unfamiliar and it may or may not be stamped on re-entry.

Removed an off-topic that was about departure from Thailand, whereas this topic is about arrival.

On 3/5/2025 at 12:14 PM, Coota said:

I have a Thai Wife Visa extension. I returned to Australia the other night and used the smart gates to leave. I just realised that there are no exit stamps now in my passport and my re-entry permit is just sitting in the passport. 

Have I done the wrong thing by using the smart gates and will I be allowed back in under my existing extension?

 

 

Some countries, incl. Australia, started to skip immigration departure stamps(ages ago for automated departure system).

And it is how your 21st century passport serves.

Even if you cannot see any physical stamps, all of your international movements are documented in your passport's microchip.

 

31 minutes ago, black tabby12345 said:

 

Some countries, incl. Australia, started to skip immigration departure stamps(ages ago for automated departure system).

And it is how your 21st century passport serves.

Even if you cannot see any physical stamps, all of your international movements are documented in your passport's microchip.

 

Yep. In most airports in the UK now there isn't any outgoing passport control whatsoever - manual or automated. Been like that for years.

1 minute ago, josephbloggs said:

Yep. In most airports in the UK now there isn't any outgoing passport control whatsoever - manual or automated. Been like that for years.

And when you return to Thailand as per the OP question.....what happens.

He has temporary permission if stay.

The expiry of which is shown on reentry permit. 

43 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

And when you return to Thailand as per the OP question.....what happens.

He has temporary permission if stay.

The expiry of which is shown on reentry permit. 

Nothing happens, he gets stamped in as has already been answered.

I was just replying to a comment about how not having exit stamps is nothing to worry about these days due to automation and confirming that with an example.

13 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

Yep. In most airports in the UK now there isn't any outgoing passport control whatsoever - manual or automated. Been like that for years.

 

Hi, thank you for your post.

No stamps even in case of manual departure inspection(by an officer) in UK?

Do they stamp it if the traveler(foreignger or British) requests?

It is like that in Australia though.

1 hour ago, black tabby12345 said:

 

Hi, thank you for your post.

No stamps even in case of manual departure inspection(by an officer) in UK?

Do they stamp it if the traveler(foreignger or British) requests?

It is like that in Australia though.

No, nobody gets a stamp. There aren't any inspection desks or officers - there's nobody to ask - you just go through security and then you are in the departure area. This is only in airports though. We have exited via Eurostar before and there is a border control check and non UK people get a stamp (if I remember correctly), but not at airports.

13 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

No, nobody gets a stamp. There aren't any inspection desks or officers - there's nobody to ask - you just go through security and then you are in the departure area. This is only in airports though. We have exited via Eurostar before and there is a border control check and non UK people get a stamp (if I remember correctly), but not at airports.

 

Thank you for your reply post again.

 

I felt the whole things quite interesting; no more departures stamps at UK airport to anyone.

But  it remains  for aliens, at the stations of international trains.

 

Referring to your remark, I made a brief google search of the Eurostar.

And learned: It is a train service linking UK, France, Belgium, Germany, and Holland.

They got 28 stations.

The world is getting increasingly smaller, isn't it?

 

Wish you have a god day.