What is the procedure if you have obtained a new passport while out of the country when your extension of staay and re-entry are still in the old one.

Do you simply show both passports at immigation upon arrival (get a permission of stay stamp up to the end of your extension permit date) and then go to immigration office and have the 3 stamps (extension of stay, re-entry and permission of stay) transferred ?

Any recent experiences ?

Thanks

What is the procedure if you have obtained a new passport while out of the country when your extension of staay and re-entry are still in the old one.

Do you simply show both passports at immigation upon arrival (get a permission of stay stamp up to the end of your extension permit date) and then go to immigration office and have the 3 stamps (extension of stay, re-entry and permission of stay) transferred ?

Any recent experiences ?

Thanks

What type of visa is it? Where I come from, a passport has to be valid for at least 6 months to be used for foreign travel.

a visa run owner or immigration might be able to answer. I'm sure someone here knows.

What type of visa is it? Where I come from, a passport has to be valid for at least 6 months to be used for foreign travel.

a visa run owner or immigration might be able to answer. I'm sure someone here knows.

It is not a visa it is an extension of stay of 1 year with a re-entry permit.

During the period of validity of this extension and of the re-entry permit I will be out of Thailand and obtain a new passport

I will then comeback to Thailand with 2 passports one with which I left (with an extension of stay, re-entry permit and exit stamp), this passport will not be valid any more as I will also have its replacement (brand new obtained out of Thailand without any stamps in).

Upon arriving at the airport with these 2 passports will the officer stamp me in my new passport (entry stamp with period of stay) until the end of my valid re-entry permit in my old passport ?

Krub

You are correct. Use both passports when you enter the country.

Then go to immigration and have all your stamps transfered over to your new one.

I don't know into which passport they will put the arrival stamp. Normally, it would be in the new passport but because your re-entry permit is in the old passport the immigration officer at the airport may have a problem with that. Perhaps they will transfer the extension and re-entry permit to the new passport right there at the airport and then stamp you in on your new passport. On e way or the other you should have no problem keeping your extension and re-entry permit. It won't be the first time that they have to deal with a case like yours.

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Maestro

Thanks Ubonjoe and Maestro