Q About Added 3 Month Option For Type O Visa

[brahmburgers]

I've heard about the option of getting additional weeks/months on visas just before renewal time, but haven't yet experienced it first-hand. It sounds like, if the visa holder goes out and returns back over a border in to Thailand during the days just before visa renewal, that Imm officials will automatically add significant weeks/months to the original visa.

I've got a renewal for a 1 year type O non-imm visa in September. I had multi-entry added at its issuance last year. What's the drill for getting an additional 3 months (or however much time) added? thanks in advance.

[Lite Beer]

It appears you have an extension from Immigration so it does not apply to you. Only holders of Visas.

[astral]

As long as you have a multi-entry Non Imm Visa you will get a new 90 day stamp each time you enter LOS.

From what you say your visa will expire in September? So you can do a border run just before the expiry date

and get a new 90 entry stamp.

[thaiphoon]

Your post is somewhat unclear, hence different information given. What exactly did you do when you 'renewed' last year? Was this done at a consulate outside Thailand? If so, you have a new visa and you can squeeze another 90 days as Astral says by doing a border run just before your visa expires. If you 'renewed' at immigration inside Thailand then you are on extension of stay and your visa is dead. And, as Lite Beer says, this does not apply to you and you will have to extend your stay again at immigration before your extension expires.

[IMA_FARANG]

I've heard about the option of getting additional weeks/months on visas just before renewal time, but haven't yet experienced it first-hand. It sounds like, if the visa holder goes out and returns back over a border in to Thailand during the days just before visa renewal, that Imm officials will automatically add significant weeks/months to the original visa.

I've got a renewal for a 1 year type O non-imm visa in September. I had multi-entry added at its issuance last year. What's the drill for getting an additional 3 months (or however much time) added? thanks in advance.

I'm not sure I know what you mean?

If you have a multiple entry visa....each entry is for 60 days....which may be extended for 30 days in country. After 90 days you will have to leave Thailand. Then when you re-enter you will use your second entry...which will get you 60 days...that entry may also be extended fror 30 days...and so on.

So if you have a 3 entry visa, you can do this 3 times. If you get the timing right, you can do your third entry just before your 3 entry visa runs out. And that will give your final entry (60 days entry plus 30 day extension in country).

Now if you are on a one year extension, that extension is just for one year. Once it runs out, you will have to leave Thailand and get another visa.

Just to make it clear, a 3 entry visa is good for 3 entries. Each entry can be for 60 days and a 30 day extension. Then when you leave country and return, it is another entry. When you do your third entry, there are no more entries on that visa. After that you need to get another visa to return.

Clear?

[thaiphoon]

I've heard about the option of getting additional weeks/months on visas just before renewal time, but haven't yet experienced it first-hand. It sounds like, if the visa holder goes out and returns back over a border in to Thailand during the days just before visa renewal, that Imm officials will automatically add significant weeks/months to the original visa.

I've got a renewal for a 1 year type O non-imm visa in September. I had multi-entry added at its issuance last year. What's the drill for getting an additional 3 months (or however much time) added? thanks in advance.

I'm not sure I know what you mean?

If you have a multiple entry visa....each entry is for 60 days....which may be extended for 30 days in country. After 90 days you will have to leave Thailand. Then when you re-enter you will use your second entry...which will get you 60 days...that entry may also be extended fror 30 days...and so on.

So if you have a 3 entry visa, you can do this 3 times. If you get the timing right, you can do your third entry just before your 3 entry visa runs out. And that will give your final entry (60 days entry plus 30 day extension in country).

Now if you are on a one year extension, that extension is just for one year. Once it runs out, you will have to leave Thailand and get another visa.

Just to make it clear, a 3 entry visa is good for 3 entries. Each entry can be for 60 days and a 30 day extension. Then when you leave country and return, it is another entry. When you do your third entry, there are no more entries on that visa. After that you need to get another visa to return.

Clear?

You get a 90 day permission to stay stamp on entering Thailand with Non-O visa. You do not have to do 30 day extensions as suggested. And if you have a 12 month multi entry visa and you leave Thailand just before the visa expires you can squeeze another 90 days from the visa. So you would need a new visa after 15 months. Think you are talking about double/triple entry tourist visas which is something different and which does not apply to the OP.

[brahmburgers]

thanks for the replies. It appears I misused the word 'visa' and what I apparently have are annual extentions of my non-imm type O whatchamacallit (and no longer a visa per se?).

I do my renewals at the Imm office in Mae Sai, Thailand's northernmost town. I'll show up at the designated date and me and the officials there can do our annual dog and pony show - which should get me legal for another year.

As for citizenship: too bad Thailand, I'll never have the wherewithall to apply, so you'll never get me as one of your citizens. I'll expend my days here, die here, and perhaps turn in to mulch on some hill near the Shan State border. Since there are a paucity of scavenging animals in these parts, my remaining calories will probably be ingested by ants. For further reference, see "Freight Train" by Elizabeth Cotton.

[thaiphoon]

Suggest you don't leave renewal of your extension of stay to the very last minute just to give you time if immigration calls for any extra documents.