My colleague holds a NON Immig visa with multiple entry. Now couple of months back his passport expired , so he got a new one. so they attached the new one to the old one. Now my colleague went to Singapore and when he came back to Bkk , the immig officer did not let him in. The reason being that he did not have the re-entry stamp on the new passport After a lot of argument , my colleague was refused entry straighaway and he had to go back to his native country despite having a valid non b visa till Oct...

Now what i wanna know is

1. what is the rule for all this???

2.do we need to have stamps on the new passport as well ??

3. is there a different criteria for a passport whose pages are finished and a passport that has expired ??

Is there anyone else who has faced a similar issues ..

There should be no re-entry stamp involved with a multi entry visa so something is wrong. What exactly did he have and how long was it valid? FYI: a Thai visa can not be issued for longer than the validity of a passport AFAIK so I suspect it expired when his passport expired (regardless of what it may have been stamped).

What he should of done was have the visa stamp in his old passport transferred to the new one at Immigration (service free of charge) before leaving Thailand or at the local Thai Consulate/Embassy in the country the new passport was issued..........his visa would then be still valid .

As already pointed out a visas validity cannot extend beyond the expiry date of the passport no matter what is written on it.

As already pointed out a visas validity cannot extend beyond the expiry date of the passport no matter what is written on it.

Just want to make sure everyone is aware we are talking "Thai visa". Other countries may have different policy (a US visa does not expire in an old passport for example).