Visa In Old Passport Question...

[MaiDong]

I'm expecting a new passport soon as my current passport is full

My visa is in my current passport but it expires very soon(within approx. a week of my new passport arriving), when my new passport arrives the old passport will be expired automatically, do I need to get the visa transferred into the new passport just for the few days it'll be valid for? Or can I just use my old passport to exit and use my new passport, including new visa(acquired whilst I'm away), to enter Thailand again?

Hope that makes sense!

MD

[lopburi3]

Yes visa entry it taken care of at border - just show both on exit. Only extensions of stay are transferred into new passports at immigration under current policy. Normal visa permitted to stay is taken care of at border.

[MaiDong]

Yes visa entry it taken care of at border - just show both on exit. Only extensions of stay are transferred into new passports at immigration under current policy. Normal visa permitted to stay is taken care of at border.

I'll be getting a new non immigrant O whilst I'm away for a few days, the same visa which will be expiring in my soon-to-be-expired passport, not a tourist visa or VOA, is that clearer?

[lopburi3]

Do you mean you will be using a multi entry non immigrant visa for a new 90 day entry? If so you will have to show both passports to obtain as visas are never transferred from one passport to another.

[MaiDong]

my current non imm 'O' expires on the 11th June, my old passport is full, my new passport will (hopefully) arrive around the 11th and then I will be leaving the country to obtain a new non imm 'O' so both passport and visa will be expired, I will be leaving Thailand before the visa expires but the passport will be expired too.

[MaiDong]

Do you mean you will be using a multi entry non immigrant visa for a new 90 day entry? If so you will have to show both passports to obtain as visas are never transferred from one passport to another.

My visa expires on the 11th, my new passport should arrive by then, but I will have to leave the country immediately, before my visa expires, meaning I may not have time to transfer my old expiring visa into my new passport;

Passport is full

Visa in full passport expires on June 11th

New passport should arrive before June 11th

New passport won't have a visa in it

[Mario2008]

You go to the border with both old and new passport and show them to immirgation and ask to be stamped out on the new passport. Then you enter the other country with the new paspsort and apply for a new visa for Thailand on that one and return to Thailand.

Visas are never transfered, only permisisons to stay. When not on an extension of stay they will do this at the border.

[MaiDong]

You go to the border with both old and new passport and show them to immirgation and ask to be stamped out on the new passport. Then you enter the other country with the new paspsort and apply for a new visa for Thailand on that one and return to Thailand.

Visas are never transfered, only permisisons to stay. When not on an extension of stay they will do this at the border.

Thanks for the clarification Mario2008, I was just really worried that the old/cancelled passport would pose a problem for a difficult immigration official!

[overherebc]

You go to the border with both old and new passport and show them to immirgation and ask to be stamped out on the new passport. Then you enter the other country with the new paspsort and apply for a new visa for Thailand on that one and return to Thailand.

Visas are never transfered, only permisisons to stay. When not on an extension of stay they will do this at the border.

Visas are never transferred, I agree, and I know it's not applicable in the OP's case, but just in case some others may not be aware, getting a new passport and having the old passport cancelled does not cancel any current visa that is still valid. My wife has a still valid business visa ( USA ) with 3 or 4 years to run in her cancelled passport and can still use that visa if and when required.

[MaiDong]

You go to the border with both old and new passport and show them to immirgation and ask to be stamped out on the new passport. Then you enter the other country with the new paspsort and apply for a new visa for Thailand on that one and return to Thailand.

Visas are never transfered, only permisisons to stay. When not on an extension of stay they will do this at the border.

Visas are never transferred, I agree, and I know it's not applicable in the OP's case, but just in case some others may not be aware, getting a new passport and having the old passport cancelled does not cancel any current visa that is still valid. My wife has a still valid business visa ( USA ) with 3 or 4 years to run in her cancelled passport and can still use that visa if and when required.

That's very handy to know if it is applicable in Thailand too

[Mario2008]

You go to the border with both old and new passport and show them to immirgation and ask to be stamped out on the new passport. Then you enter the other country with the new paspsort and apply for a new visa for Thailand on that one and return to Thailand.

Visas are never transfered, only permisisons to stay. When not on an extension of stay they will do this at the border.

Visas are never transferred, I agree, and I know it's not applicable in the OP's case, but just in case some others may not be aware, getting a new passport and having the old passport cancelled does not cancel any current visa that is still valid. My wife has a still valid business visa ( USA ) with 3 or 4 years to run in her cancelled passport and can still use that visa if and when required.

That's very handy to know if it is applicable in Thailand too

Yes, it is. You always show the valid visa in the old passport and get your permisisont to stay stamps in the new pasport.