Just had my passport renewed and got a new visa in my new passport. Not an extension, as my old visa was dated to expire with my passport. Went to Wattana and got a 5 years visa (here on a SE-visa). No drama, but when I went to my local immigration for my 90 days, they demanded to see even my old passport and was told they wanted to do so even in the future.

I have not been out of Thailand for 8 years, so my entrystamp is ofcourse in the old passport, so I guess the only way for immigration to check that my arrivalcard matches the entrystamp is to look in the old passport. My question is: Posible to move the entrystamp to the new passport, so I don't have to live with two passports for the next ten years ?

In my new passport they put a small rectangular stamp with the details of my original entry into Thailand, next to that is my last entry into Thailand. Think a visit to the Immigration office is in order, so you can get this stamp transferred, then no carrying two passports around.

Your entry details are transferred to a new passport, but any valid visa itself not. To keep using a valid visa you must use the old passport in combination with the new one.

Don't know about SE-visa.

what is a SE-Visa

Your entry details are transferred to a new passport, but any valid visa itself not. To keep using a valid visa you must use the old passport in combination with the new one.

Don't know about SE-visa.

Does that mean if on extensions of stay, the original say "O" Visa which was used as a basis for the extensions and still in a former passport always needs to be shown?

I thought that with a new passport and stamp info transferred into it, your need to carry the former passport ceases.

I could be reading this the wrong way!

i.e. Is the visa used as a basis for extensions of stay valid or is it only used as the initial reference and when it's validity in time has finished, it's of no use?

Edited February 13, 201214 yr by fishhooks

Only a multi entry visa in old passport would need to be shown for a new entry. Once information is transferred into new passport for an extension of stay that is the only passport you need.