Need Opinions

[slevin11]

i need to overstay my 30 day visa by 24 hrs, my flight is on dec.15th at 2 in the morning, and my visa is stamped till the 13th....i know there is a couple options...was wondering if i should risk just paying at the airport. Also, lets say i arrive at the airport before midnight, but by the time i approach the desk it is past midnight, would they charge me an extra day? thanks for the help

[ubonjoe]

You will not have to pay if overstay is less than 24 hours.

If you can pass through immigration prior to midnight on the 14th you should not have to pay. After that it will cost you 1000 baht.

No problem to wait and pay at the airport.

[jamesjdaly]

Out of interest, if you do overstay and pay any fines incurred, what exactly is stamped into your passport? The reason I ask is that some embassies (KL for example) ask you about this in the application form and it mightn't look too good for my next application for Non Imm O if I have a huge, red, UNCLEAN stamp!!.

[ubonjoe]

It is not huge and it is not red.

It is a little blue stamp that looks like all the other blue stamps.

[jamesjdaly]

Oh! Thanks, Joe. I thought it was a big bugger

[Sophon]

You will not have to pay if overstay is less than 24 hours.

If you can pass through immigration prior to midnight on the 14th you should not have to pay. After that it will cost you 1000 baht.

No problem to wait and pay at the airport.

I don't believe this is correct.

The overstay is calculated on the time your flight leaves, not on when you pass through immigration. And any part of a day counts as a whole day, so it doesn't matter if his flight is at 00.05 or 23.55 on the 15th, he will still be on a two day overstay.

If his flight was on the 14th and he was passing through immigration on the 13th, he would probably have a god chance of the overstay not being noticed. But since he is already on overstay when he passes through on the 14th, I think the odds are better than even that they will check his ticket and give him a two day overstay (and charge 1,000 baht).

But, of course, he could get lucky.

Sophon

[Lite Beer]

You will not have to pay if overstay is less than 24 hours.

If you can pass through immigration prior to midnight on the 14th you should not have to pay. After that it will cost you 1000 baht.

No problem to wait and pay at the airport.

I don't believe this is correct.

The overstay is calculated on the time your flight leaves, not on when you pass through immigration. And any part of a day counts as a whole day, so it doesn't matter if his flight is at 00.05 or 23.55 on the 15th, he will still be on a two day overstay.

If his flight was on the 14th and he was passing through immigration on the 13th, he would probably have a god chance of the overstay not being noticed. But since he is already on overstay when he passes through on the 14th, I think the odds are better than even that they will check his ticket and give him a two day overstay (and charge 1,000 baht).

But, of course, he could get lucky.

Sophon

I agree with that. Budget for 1,000 Baht just in case.

[monty]

Nothing to do with overstay being noticed or not.

At the airport you get 1 day of overstay free of charge. This was done to avoid having to charge people who's flight leaves at 00:05 am, i.e. 5 minutes of overstay.

They drew the line at simply one day overstay.

If the OP's flight leaves after midnight, i.e. when the calender says 15th, he'll pay 1000 Baht in overstay fines (2 days). If the flight leaves on 11:55 on the 14th he will not have to pay.

It is indeed the scheduled departure time of the flight which counts, not the time you pass through immigration.

If the flight is scheduled 11:55, but has a two hour delay, no overstay will be charged either.

[slevin11]

yeah my flight leaves at 2 in the morning on the 15th.....guess im paying a two day overstay.....dam_n lol. thanks for the replies and help

[astral]

As a general rule is is better NOT to overstay.

You risk arrest, imprisonment and deportation, if you are caught before your reach the airport.

A small risk, I know, but a risk none the less.

24 hours overstay does not incur a penalty.

After that 1000baht a day, max 20,000 baht.

You do get a stamp in the passport, but no-one has ever reported that this has affected

subsequent visa application.

[torrenova]

As a general rule is is better NOT to overstay.

You risk arrest, imprisonment and deportation, if you are caught before your reach the airport.

A small risk, I know, but a risk none the less.

24 hours overstay does not incur a penalty.

After that 1000baht a day, max 20,000 baht.

You do get a stamp in the passport, but no-one has ever reported that this has affected

subsequent visa application.

Since when was the overstay fee raised from Bt500 to Bt1000 a day ? I agree that the OP has to pay Bt1000 but at the rate of Bt500 a day.

I had a 14 day overstay years ago and asked the Thai Consulate in the UK at Hull about it as I considered getting a new passport but and all they were concerned with was whether I had paid the overstay amount. I had and they issued the new visa.

[Lite Beer]

The fine is 500 Baht a day.

One day overstay = No fine.

Two days = You then pay the fine for the first day as well.