Hi,

My wife has entered Thailand on her Australian Passport.

She has 30 days, as normal.

She wishes to stay for at least another 2 weeks.

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She is in Surin (Issan)

Where is there a close immigration office?

How many days extension would she get?

How often can she get this extension?

Does her being a Thai have any influence?

Thanks good people..

Colin

Being Thai makes all the difference. She can extend for one year. If not Thai such an entry could not be extended more than 7 days and that would likely require a ticket out within that time period.

Check top of forum for office locations - she should have ID card and probably home register, a 4x6cm photo and 1,900 baht for the application form.

She can also cross border and return for a new 15 day visa exempt entry if any problem extending.

Edited July 30, 200916 yr by lopburi3

Hi,

My wife has entered Thailand on her Australian Passport.

She has 30 days, as normal.

She wishes to stay for at least another 2 weeks.

She is in Surin (Issan)

Where is there a close immigration office?

How many days extension would she get?

How often can she get this extension?

Does her being a Thai have any influence?

Thanks good people..

Colin

The closest immigration office from SURIN is KAP CHEUNG , only 90 km

Being Thai makes all the difference. She can extend for one year. If not Thai such an entry could not be extended more than 7 days and that would likely require a ticket out within that time period.

Check top of forum for office locations - she should have ID card and probably home register, a 4x6cm photo and 1,900 baht for the application form.

She can also cross border and return for a new 15 day visa exempt entry if any problem extending.

A BIG thank you to those responses...and so fast....a beer in Surin in a few weeks when I get there...

Does she have a Thai passport? If she does, she can exit Thailand on her Aus passport and re-enter on her Thai passport. That would give her as much time as she wants without any visa or immigration worries.

If she doesn't have a Thai passport - it should be easy for her to get one if she is Thai.

You can not switch passports at a border crossing.

Would she even need her Thai passport to go to Laos?

She could exit Thailand at Nong Khai. AUS pp.

Enter Laos using her Thai ID card. Returning to Thailand with ID card only.

Get a Thai passport.

Exit Thailand with Thai pp when returning to AUS.

Enter AUS using her AUS passport.

This assumes, of course, that she has a Thai ID card and can get a Thai passport.

Would that work?

I believe more than an ID card is required - a pass must be obtained in my understanding and used for exit and return.

Would she even need her Thai passport to go to Laos?

She could exit Thailand at Nong Khai. AUS pp.

Enter Laos using her Thai ID card. Returning to Thailand with ID card only.

Get a Thai passport.

Exit Thailand with Thai pp when returning to AUS.

Enter AUS using her AUS passport.

This assumes, of course, that she has a Thai ID card and can get a Thai passport.

Would that work?

She has a Thai passport in her maiden name, and an Australian passport in her married name....We had thought about this, but immigration check boarding pass against passport. Thanks anyway guys. We want to play by the rules...

"I believe more than an ID card is required - a pass must be obtained in my understanding and used for exit and return."

They get that by showing their ID card or passport. A passport is not required for a Thai entering Laos.

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"She has a Thai passport in her maiden name, and an Australian passport in her married name....We had thought about this, but immigration check boarding pass against passport."

"We want to play by the rules..."

There is nothing illegal about using 2 passports.

Immigration and airline check-in are two different procedures.

You can exit Thailand (via Thai immigration) on a Thai passport, if you entered on it or on her ID card. But when checking in, show the airline the AUS passport because it shows the name the ticket is booked under.

It is very easy for her to get the name changed in her Thai passport, if in fact she wants it changed.

OP, hope this all works out for your wife.

Terry