New Passport - Non-imm B & Made Redundant

[Oliver2524]

A few weeks back I got a new passport from the UK. My previous passport had a Non-Imm B visa with 9-months remaining. Sadly I have been made redundant from my previous job and therefore my Work Permit has been revoked . I came back into Thailand on a 30-day tourist visa on the 24th March, worked my final 2-days, and now I am currently unemployed, waiting on a few pending job offers.

I plan to go away to Malaysia over Songran and am unsure what the best approach is with regard to staying in Thailand :

- Can I get my old Non-Imm B visa transferred to my new passport, or will they ask to see my work permit or a letter from my employer?

- Would it be best to get a 90-day visa from the consulate in Kuala Lumpur?

Many thanks

[PoorSucker]

If you had a multiple entry Non-B you can get it transferred.

If you were on extension of stay based on employment, then no.

[InterestedObserver]

If you have a valid multiple-entry Non-Immigrant "B" visa, how is it that you re-entered Thailand with a 30 day Visa Exempt stamp. Did you not enter the visa number on your arrival card? If you have an extension of stay based on working, then that will be canceled by immigration on your last day of work.

[Lite Beer]

If you have a Non Imm B Visa it is still Valid. It cannot be transfered to your new passport. You have to carry 2 passports until the Visa expires.

If you had an Extension of stay. That expired the day you finished your job.

As said . Why did you enter on a 30 day entry stamp?

[torrenova]

Unless it was an extension of stay, the rules of which have been clearly explained above by others above, then only showing the new passport would have resulted in the 30 day stamp.

However, things do not seem totally straightforward here.

The OP has a job and WP and non imm "B" (though we don't know if extension of multi). He leaves Thailand on the old passport and goes to the UK where he gets a new passport. He re-enters Thailand on the new passport and gets a 30 day stamp.

OK, he could have got a new passport in Bangkok so I presume he had another reason to go to the UK and obviously not a visa issue.

If the non "B" is a multi then he can do a border run and get 90 days with the last one being the day the visa runs out. As he wants to escape Songkran, leave with both passports and when coming back, show the visa at immigration and get 90 days.

If an extension, then get a double entry tourist visa from wherever he goes (currently free I think) giving 60 days with a possible 30 day extension.

Then if he gets another job, leave and get a non imm visa with cmpany documents and go back on the extension.

In the end, it boils down to wht the "B" visa he currently has is?

[Oliver2524]

Thanks for everyones assistance on this matter.

To clarify:

- My visa on my previous passport was a 'Non-Imm B, Single Entry, Issued 13/03/2009, Valid Until 09/02/2010' and states at the top of the stamp 're-entry permit'

- I entered back into Thailand as a tourist as I was told that my visa would expire when my work permit was revoked (3 days after I got back). I thought the better option was to enter as a tourist, otherwise I'd then have to leave again within 7-days.

- I didn't get a re-entry stamp prior to leaving Thailand as I was advised not to by the visa company my ex-employer used due to having to renew my passport (went to the UK for a friends wedding & renewed my passport as I had ran out of pages). Towards the end of my tenure they gave little assistance on this matter .

- Based on the info you all gave it sounds like my visa was an extension - correct?

- How can I clarify this?

I plan to go away for Songkran, so it sounds like i'll need to stay a few extra days to get a double entry tourist visa giving 60 days with a possible 30 day extension. Hopefully within that period I'll have found a new employer. If not, guess I'll have to go out the country and repeat the process again . I just hope that I find a new employer real soon.

MANY THANKS for everyones help and pardon my ignorance on this subject.

[Lite Beer]

Thanks for everyones assistance on this matter.

To clarify:

- My visa on my previous passport was a 'Non-Imm B, Single Entry, Issued 13/03/2009, Valid Until 09/02/2010' and states at the top of the stamp 're-entry permit'

Where was this issued. A Consulate/Embassy outside of Thailand? OR From Immigration in Thailand?

Does it look like this?

[InterestedObserver]

What you claim to have doesn't make any sense. Given your narrative and the dates you state, you are talking about a single-entry Non-Immigrant "B" visa and an extension of stay based on work and a re-entry permit all at the same time. It's confusing everybody.

The bottom line is that on the last day of your employment, immigration will cancel your work extension of stay and you have to either leave Thailand or arrange a 7 day extension from immigration. The 7 day extension will cost you 1,900 Baht.

[Oliver2524]

Thanks for everyones assistance on this matter.

To clarify:

- My visa on my previous passport was a 'Non-Imm B, Single Entry, Issued 13/03/2009, Valid Until 09/02/2010' and states at the top of the stamp 're-entry permit'

Where was this issued. A Consulate/Embassy outside of Thailand? OR From Immigration in Thailand?

Does it look like this?

Yes, identical to that, with the exception that the 'Place of Issue' was 'Bangkok'

[InterestedObserver]

But then again, you have a new, second passport with a 30 day Visa Exempt stamp in it. When immigration cancels your extension of stay in the first passport, you have the second passport to fall back on with a valid 30 day entry stamp. Anybody have any thoughts on this?

[lopburi3]

1. You had a single re-entry permit in your passport that had been used at some point to enter Thailand. Of no further used and invalid. It is not your previous permitted to stay stamp.

2. You exit country without a re-entry permit and return with a new passport and a 30 day visa exempt entry.

3. As of 24 March you entered and received a 30 day visa exempt stamp (permitting you to stay until about April 22).

4. Your exit canceled your previous extension of stay.

5. You did not have a valid visa in your old passport (you were on extensions of stay) so there is nothing to recover or use in it.

[InterestedObserver]

As I now see things, the OP had a re-entry permit issued on 13/03/2009 and valid until 09/02/2010 to cover his extension of stay based on working. I find no evidence of it being used prior to the recent trip back to the UK. So when the OP returned to Thailand on 24/03/2009 he had a valid re-entry permit for his extension of stay in his first passport. At that point the OP choose to present his second, new passport to immigration and was granted a 30 day Visa Exempt entry. That is the only scenario that fits the available information.

The OPs last day of work was probably 27/03/2009, at which point his extension of stay was canceled by immigration. He is now in Thailand, using his new passport, with a 30 day Visa Exempt stamp.

He has no valid visa or extension of stay to transfer to his new passport.

[lopburi3]

I find no evidence of it being used prior to the recent trip back to the UK.

The image is a used single re-entry permit - he said his was exactly the same except for place of issue.

[InterestedObserver]

I find no evidence of it being used prior to the recent trip back to the UK.

The image is a used single re-entry permit - he said his was exactly the same except for place of issue.

Used when? Unless the OP made two trips out of Thailand between 13/03/2009 and 24/03/2009, a short 10 day period.

[Lite Beer]

To be honest the OP is so confused I do not think we will ever know what he has got.

I think that whatever he did have is now expired.