AlongtheChaoPraya Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Here's a question I think someone could help me with: My non-immigrant type-B was: * Issued on 09 Dec '09. * Had to be utilised before 08 Dec '10. * First entry was 22 Dec '09 (last year). * My last 90-day stamp expires 12 Dec '10 (this Sunday). The exit-Thailand date was not an issue as I was going West for Christmas until I just found out I have to stay awhile longer here on emergency. So, I have cancelled my flight. Is it possible to get longer than two weeks if I do a border run (over-land) this weekend? I believe that it is, but that I should have left the country with a few-day cushion. Or do I have to take a plane this weekend to get longer than two weeks? This might be a misunderstanding, but I am being told by a visa service that I use here that the key date is the 09 Dec 2009 date (not my first entry date, or any other date). In other words, I cannot get an extension because we are now over one year since the visa was issued. I would like to know if this is true, but when I asked hypothetically if I had waited a whole year to make my first entry (i.e., up until December of this year), the visa is still a year visa (good for stay in Thailand up until Dec 2011). This received an astounding 'no'. So, if you wait a few months to utilise your visa, it would only be good for stay in the Kingdom for the remaining part of the 12-month period? Any help would be appreciated. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lite Beer Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Your Visa expired 8th December. If you do a border run you will get 15 days. If you did it before 8th December you would have got 90 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlongtheChaoPraya Posted December 10, 2010 Author Share Posted December 10, 2010 Thanks L.B. Rephrasing the 2nd question: If I had not utilised the visa until 01 Dec (this month), it would have expired on 08 Dec, but I would have received one 90-day stay, and that's it? It would not have let me stay for a year since I waited so long to utilise it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lite Beer Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Yep. The Visa is valid the day it is issued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopburi3 Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 The visa allows only a 90 day stay, not a year. The multi entry, as you had, allowed a new 90 day stay for any entry during the one year it was valid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlongtheChaoPraya Posted December 10, 2010 Author Share Posted December 10, 2010 Thanks very much for the help. Now I know that for the future it is better not to get them too early before entering again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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