Issuing Visa On A Nearly Expired Passport

[resrea]

Here's a question...

I have a work visa "b" which I got from Laos on 24 April, I have to wait two months for Chiang Mai Immigration to give me the year visa stamp (this friday) My husband is going to get a non "o" on the strength that he is married to someone working in Thailand and so he has to wait for me to get the jing jing stamp in my passport, that shouldn't be a problem..BUT his tourist visa ran out today and so he went to Burma to get 15 days in order that he can wait for me to get the stamp. This will take him to the 6th June which is ALSO the day his actual passport expires......hmmm. SO my question is, will Laos or KL issue him a visa (non"o") when he only has a few days left in his passport? Ordering a new passport will take too long, but the alternative is that he will have to go to Bangkok pay through the nose for a new emergency passport and then fly to KL or Laos or whatever....anyone know if it is possible to get a visa issued with only a few days left on it?

Thanks

[Lite Beer]

You need 6 months left on a Passport.

[ubonjoe]

He is was lucky when he made his border run. They could of refused him entry with less than 6 months left on his passport.

[CosmicSurfer]

How did he get a visa in the first place with less than 6 months left on his passport?

Somebody screwed up, or they changed the rules ???

CS

[resrea]

I think we screwed up mostly and then got lucky with being allowed in, don't know how. We get a tad confused as we are a four person family and all on different visas with different dates with different problems and god knows what else.....Thanks for the replies, just one more question what are the overstay rules? he will apply for another passport from here and that takes three weeks, so he will be at least a week overstaying his not very enormous welcome, do they just charge per day and how much and is there a cap on the fine?

[ubonjoe]

I don't know if your embassy will keep his passport or not. If not they should they should give some kind of document he can use.

If you can get a letter from the embasssy requesting it he may be able to get a 30 day extension at immigration.

From police order.

2.28 In case of a necessary reason, the embassy or consulate certified and requested.

(1) Permission will be granted not more than 30 days in case of a necessary reason.

(1) Confirmation and request has been made by embassy or consulate.

You should contact your embassy and ask them about getting the request.

The overstay fine is 500 baht per day.

[LazyWeekend]

Actually I think your husband doesn't have to wait those 2 months to get his extension as dependant approved.

I went for 1y ext. of non-B in April but passport expires in Sept. 2009. I got a stamp valid until Sept. 2009 with additional note that upon renewal of passport, the stamp would be made valid until April 2010.

My wife, dependant on my visa and already had renewed passport, got upon my extension immediately an extension until April 2010 (so actually she now has a visa which runs 7 months longer as my own until I renew my passport).

So I think your husband could get now a stamp valid until his passport expiry date with a note that upon renewing his passport, his visa would be made valid until 24 April 2010.

And if I am wrong, the Visa specialists in this forum will correct me ;-)

[lopburi3]

You had a visa. This person needs a non immigrant visa. A visa is not going to be issued on a passport with less than six months validity.

[noudb]

Here's a question...

I have a work visa "b" which I got from Laos on 24 April, I have to wait two months for Chiang Mai Immigration to give me the year visa stamp (this friday) My husband is going to get a non "o" on the strength that he is married to someone working in Thailand and so he has to wait for me to get the jing jing stamp in my passport, that shouldn't be a problem..BUT his tourist visa ran out today and so he went to Burma to get 15 days in order that he can wait for me to get the stamp. This will take him to the 6th June which is ALSO the day his actual passport expires......hmmm. SO my question is, will Laos or KL issue him a visa (non"o") when he only has a few days left in his passport? Ordering a new passport will take too long, but the alternative is that he will have to go to Bangkok pay through the nose for a new emergency passport and then fly to KL or Laos or whatever....anyone know if it is possible to get a visa issued with only a few days left on it?

Thanks

In my experience immigration will never stamp a passport with a date later than the expiry date of that passport. So the best thing is to get a new one quickly as you otherwise have to get the stamp twice and a new passport anyway.