I am in the process of getting a new Canadian passport. I will be leaving thailand a few days after I get the passport. Can I use the old stamp from the void passport to exit the country? Its a 30 day stamp valid for several days beyond my departure. I dont have time to go to the Immigration at Suan Plu.

I am in the process of getting a new Canadian passport. I will be leaving thailand a few days after I get the passport. Can I use the old stamp from the void passport to exit the country? Its a 30 day stamp valid for several days beyond my departure. I dont have time to go to the Immigration at Suan Plu.

Ask the embassy to not to mark passport as void. I asked mine and they marked it as valid and issued me a new passport.

I (Swiss national) had a similar problem very recently.

The CH embassy in Bangkok then told me, when accepting my new passport in Bangkok, they had to follow an instruction and forward the number of my old as well as the number of my new passport to the Thai immigration.

As there seems to be a kind of "counter" kept by the TH-immigration, updated whenever one applies and gets a Thai visa, this "might" be a bad idea (there seems to be a "limit" of consecutive TH visas). I therefore agreed to pick up my new PP in KL.

New PP, new PP number, new "person" = new "TH visa counter".

The Malaysian immigration had been informed by the CH embassy and I could leave with my new passport, without any problems.

BUT ... Malaysian immigration, when leaving Malaysia, made a note in my new PP about the number of the old one. I had the idea to slightly alter this number, but did I?

Bottomline: TH visas as well as those "counters" are somewhat tied to the PP number. Had similar experience a year ago.

I am in the process of getting a new Canadian passport. I will be leaving thailand a few days after I get the passport. Can I use the old stamp from the void passport to exit the country? Its a 30 day stamp valid for several days beyond my departure. I dont have time to go to the Immigration at Suan Plu.

The transfer of stamps to a new passport is free and doesn't take that much time. Sometimes they transfer stamps at the airport.

There is no problem

I did it last week at the Thai/ Cambodian border with my Australian PP.

You hand over BOTH passports ( even the cancelled one as well )

and they told me it would take 10 minutes to change over on the

computer system.

They gave both back and the exit stamp was in the new passport

There is no problem

I did it last week at the Thai/ Cambodian border with my Australian PP.

You hand over BOTH passports ( even the cancelled one as well )

and they told me it would take 10 minutes to change over on the

computer system.

They gave both back and the exit stamp was in the new passport

Ok that sounds reasuring. I presume I can do this at airport when leaving.

Hey beammeup, look at here http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Passport-t231130.html&view=findpost&p=2452077#entry2452077 and onwards, to see my very recent experiment. No hassle.

(Wha... I could not post a link that works. Bhoah!)

Edited January 17, 200917 yr by Hahhi

OK Thanks thats what I wanted to know.