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I am on my first tourist visa to Thailand now which started Sep 18 and I have to renew it on Nov. 16th, a Sunday. I have 6 or 7 visa-exempt stamps in my passport but this is my first visa. Since the renewal is Nov 16th, what should I do? Can I wait until Sep 17th a Monday, or will that lead to definate trouble? If I renew it say Friday Nov 14th will that short me two days at the end? Is the office at Chaeng Wattana open Sat or Sun?

Secondly, I will need to make a visa run obviously around middle December. However I am thinking about renting a room for a month or two starting real soon, and leave my stuff there when I make the run in mid-Dec. When I do, if a second tourist visa is denied, will I still be allowed to come back in on a visa-exempt? (15 days if by land, yes).

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You should extend now - you lose no days as it extends your current entry.

A second tourist visa is highly unlikely to be denied. But you could always return on a 15 day entry.

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You can apply for 30 day extension of stay before your current permission to stay expires. You do not lose any days by applying early and extension will be tacked on from 16th Nov.

There are many reports of red warning stamp being issued at Vientiane, but seems to apply to people with several back to back tourist visas. Only reports I have seen of visa refusal relates to some SEA nationals. Others nationals have still received visa even if have also received warning stamp. You would be very unlucky to be denied second tourist visa but could always re-enter on 15 day visa exempt entry. Vientiane currently issuing double entry tourist visa for free, which would give nearly 6 months stay with extensions and border run in the middle if you want to stay longer.

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I think it's a good policy to get a visa extension about 1 week early. You never know what can happen when you're dealing with Thai Immigration.

One example happened a couple of years ago when Immigration started asking for extension applicants to show an air ticket out of Thailand. People who couldn't produce one were given 7 days instead of the usual 30 days. I knew a number of people who were caught out at the time.

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"Secondly, I will need to make a visa run obviously around middle December. However I am thinking about renting a room for a month or two starting real soon, and leave my stuff there when I make the run in mid-Dec. When I do, if a second tourist visa is denied, will I still be allowed to come back in on a visa-exempt? (15 days if by land, yes)."

Maybe.... I think they will give you 7-15 days time to leave the contry, about you have your stuff in Thailand. But may you have to show a paper about renting.

"I think it's a good policy to get a visa extension about 1 week early. You never know what can happen when you're dealing with Thai Immigration."

After this You have to show them money and the visa will be no problem for 1-2 times moore. I know 2 persons do this, but the have to show allways 2-300k bath. But there are moore informations in other parts of the forum!

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Well I went up there on the good mention from this forum but I think I may have messed things up. I went by bus and therefore took me a while to get there as well as find the building, arrived at 4:21pm and the window said close at 4:30, so I thought I was ok until I saw the sign that said I need photos. I said I didn't have any so the girl points me in some direction of a place, but as shes pointing she swings her arm about 90 degree semi-circles and says "over there sir," that was the start of my stress. Over there is just about anywhere. Anyways I ran down the stairs and looked all over, finally found the place for photos, overpriced, but worst of all I only have about 5 minutes so I ran back upstairs to the immi office and tried to ask them if they could please give me a few extra minutes to make some photos downstairs, you know let me come back at 4:35 and slip in the back door. About 15 employees all giggling at the desk none of them listening to me, finally some officer comes out and doesn't like my appearance (?) and after I pleaded a couple of times she finally belts out "Noooo, cannot wait for yoouuuUUUUUU" with loud stress on the last word. The whole office falls dead silent like someone had just been shot -- me? Now I have to be worried that when I go back tomorrow the same lady will remember me as that f----ng farang that came here last night, and reject my extension. I don't really think her way of talking was warranted as I wasn't so rude, just asking a question. Man it's so easy to piss of these Thai people by doing things that wouldn't cause a blip most other places, worst of all you don't even know you do it until they explode on you.

From what I understand is that you have to pay 1900 baht to apply for the extension, not to receive it, so if I'm rejected not only will I be screwed but also lose that money.

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