Ed Visa Question

[Ayutthaya69]

Hello Folks so quick question i have Ed Visa end of my visa its 7 of october so Tommorow i have to go for my extension. so the officer stamp my passport for 3 months or until 7 of october i have to renew my ED VISA thanks all

[Maestro]

1. Visa

Was the visa, which you obtained from a Thai consulate, valid for one entry or for multiple entries?

2. Arrival stamp

When you arrived in Thailand, the immigration officer put a rectangular stamp in your passport with the text "ADMITTED <date> UNTIL <date>". Are you saying that the UNTIL date is "07 OCT 2010"?

P.S. Tomorrow is not the seventh day of October.

[Ayutthaya69]

1. Visa

Was the visa, which you obtained from a Thai consulate, valid for one entry or for multiple entries?

2. Arrival stamp

When you arrived in Thailand, the immigration officer put a rectangular stamp in your passport with the text "ADMITTED <date> UNTIL <date>". Are you saying that the UNTIL date is "07 OCT 2010"?

P.S. Tomorrow is not the seventh day of October.

yes i know its not the 7 october i have to go for my extension but my ED Visa its finish on the 7 of october so im not sure if the officer stamp me 3 months or to 7 of october last day for my ED VISA

[Ayutthaya69]

1. Visa

Was the visa, which you obtained from a Thai consulate, valid for one entry or for multiple entries?

2. Arrival stamp

When you arrived in Thailand, the immigration officer put a rectangular stamp in your passport with the text "ADMITTED <date> UNTIL <date>". Are you saying that the UNTIL date is "07 OCT 2010"?

P.S. Tomorrow is not the seventh day of October.

FOR VISA SINGLE ENTRY

[Maestro]

You are permitted to stay in Thailand until the date shown after the word UNTIL in the arrival stamp. In the context of the arrival stamp, the word ADMITTED means "allowed to enter the country and permitted to stay"

See here about the difference between visa expiration date and expiration of permission to stay. You are not the first one to be confused about it:

http://www.immigration.go.th/nov2004/content/visaxpiredate.html

[lopburi3]

You are not using your visa. You are obtaining 90 day extensions of your permitted to stay and you will obtain a new 90 day stay if you qualify for extension on part time education language school study.

[Falcon]

You are not using your visa. You are obtaining 90 day extensions of your permitted to stay and you will obtain a new 90 day stay if you qualify for extension on part time education language school study.

If you are referring to the reporting every 90 days for an extention on your ED visa, the immigration office will only stamp you an extention until the 7th October, not for the full 90 days as would be the situation if you had a Non ED multi entry visa and waited til the last day of the validity then came back in, that way you would get a full 3 months (90 days). I was in the same situation myself and the immigration stamped me with 63 days of extention and told me to get the extention letter from the Ministry of Education and then just take that in before the extention had expired. Just a heads up too, for the extention (2nd year) of the ED visa, you will need to go to the Ministry of Education for an interview (in Thai) just to make sure that you are actually learning something. Its not a difficult interview as long as you have a grasp of the language and its only a test in spoken thai and not written/reading thai.

Hope that helps a bit.

Falcon