Extending 60 Day Tourist Visa - Documentation Required?

[Kevin2012]

Hi all

Apologies if this has been posted before, but it is a bit overwhelming trying to look through all the info on this site.

I arrived in BKK last week on the standard 60 day tourist visa. I believe you can extend that by 30 days by visiting the Immigration Dept at Chaeng Wattana

I went to the page on the Immigration Dept website about documents required for extending visas:

http://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/base.php?page=service

I click on "visa extension" and then "in the case of tourism" and.......nothing happens!!

So, what documents/photocopies/ photos/money/anything else do I have to take when I visit to get the 30 day extension???

Is there anything else I have missed??

Thanks

[lopburi3]

Form TM.7 filled out (download and print on A4 page front/back or fill out at office). 1,900 baht fee. 4x6cm photo attached to TM.7 should be current within six months. Copy of passport date page, visa, entry and departure card.

[Kevin2012]

Form TM.7 filled out (download and print on A4 page front/back or fill out at office). 1,900 baht fee. 4x6cm photo attached to TM.7 should be current within six months. Copy of passport date page, visa, entry and departure card.

Thanks

Next problem. I found and downloaded the TM7.......but it is full of little black boxes where you have to write things. See attached

Is that normal?

[lopburi3]

Open and fill out using Microsoft Word if you downloaded the .doc version.

[Nisa]

Nice to have things done before you go and Lopburi3 gave you everything you need but just know if you did show up just with your passport, they provide the form and place to fill it out and there are copy and photo places in the building that know what you need and the cost is barely anything ... at least if going to BKK immigration (never been to any other). I've also found getting down there when it first opens will get you out of there very quickly as nobody seems to be doing extensions then. Either that or I just get lucky because I am always the first one if I get there within 15-minutes after opening.

[ubonjoe]

If you click on the Adobe PDF logo you can get it in that format. Also remember to do a 2 sided print. Immigration will not accept 2 separate pages.

[Kevin2012]

Open and fill out using Microsoft Word if you downloaded the .doc version.

I did, but when you fill in your name details, the formatting is all screwed up and the letters you type in fall off the right hand side of the page!!

All the formatting is screwed up

Does anyone have a TM7 in Word that they can post here that is "normal" please?

[Mario2008]

You could print it and fill it out with a pen.

[lopburi3]

http://www.thaivisa....plication-form/

Above is the link from pinned item at start of forum and have confirmed it works fine. It is also available directly from immigration websites. Do you have this font installed on your computer (it might be required)? If not this is a download link.

AngsanaDSE (TrueType) Thai Font Download

[Kevin2012]

If you click on the Adobe PDF logo you can get it in that format. Also remember to do a 2 sided print. Immigration will not accept 2 separate pages.

I did click on the Adobe PDF logo and.....

Not Found

The requested URL /download/pdf/tm7.pdf was not found on this server.

I think lopburi3 is right, it is a font issue. When I "look" at the document on my hard drive, it is fine. But when I open it with Word, the format gets all screwed up.

Thanks for all the responses from a newbie

[ubonjoe]

Worked for me: http://www.immigrati...oad/pdf/tm7.pdf

Edit: on www.bangkok.immigration.go.th it does not work.

[Kevin2012]

4 different friends with different computers downloaded the Word version from the immigration website and it did not work

I had to manually replace a font on my computer, now all OK

Next question - I am now 3 weeks into my 60 day tourist visa. I plan to apply for the 30 day extension.

Is there any particular timing when to apply for the extension? Am I too early at the moment? Or does it not really matter apart from "don't leave it to the last minute"?

Thanks

[ALFREDO]

You should make it, a day before Visa runs out at last and you cannot do the extension more early than 30 days before Visa runs out.

As far as I know.

I made such and similar extensions a lot of times, I never printed something before.

But up to you.

Normal is, go to your nearest Immigration, take the right form, fill it out, place your photo on it and hand it over to the Immigration officer with a copy of your Passport name-photo pages and a copy of your entry stamp and the entry card.+ 1.900 Baht

Most Immigration offices have a Copy shop on their compound or even make the necessary copies themselves for a small fee.

Should you forget the copies.

No big deal.

[ubonjoe]

You can do your extension at any time during last 30 days of your 60 day permit to stay (not visa expiration).

A week before would be the minimum that I would do it just in case there was a problem.

[Kevin2012]

<<<<I made such and similar extensions a lot of times, I never printed something before.

But up to you.>>>>

This is my first time, so I am probably being over cautious.

No doubt I will do it all in advance, get there and find I have screwed something up, and do what you do anyway!

<<<any time during last 30 days of your 60 day permit to stay (not visa expiration).

A week before would be the minimum that I would do it just in case there was a problem.>>>

Thanks

[Kevin2012]

From another thread on the Thai Visa forum:

<<<As of the 1st November 2012 they have changed the system.. no more sign up sheet and i understand they are wanting people to have everything ready (photcopies, photos) before getting a number. I was at immigration the other day and the thing that pissed me off was queing up an hour for the photo copies ! >>>

Can anyone recommend a company I can use to help me the first time?

[lopburi3]

What location are you talking about? Chiang Watanna uses a queue desk not a "sign up sheet" and most people have the required copies (as in the list I provided you). If not you go downstairs to the shopping center and obtain them from business operators there. You are making a major production for what is extremely easy and done by people every workday without issues.

[Kevin2012]

What location are you talking about? Chiang Watanna uses a queue desk not a "sign up sheet" and most people have the required copies (as in the list I provided you). If not you go downstairs to the shopping center and obtain them from business operators there. You are making a major production for what is extremely easy and done by people every workday without issues.

My mistake. I found the other post.,...it was in the Chiang Mai forum.

I am in Bangkok and will be going to Chaeng Wattana

For you guys that have lived here for years and done this dozens of times, it is probably a piece of cake.

For some of us...like me....who are new to this forum, and to Thailand, and to its immigration system.....it is very daunting.

Please bear with me....and thanks for the guidance

[ALFREDO]

<<<<I made such and similar extensions a lot of times, I never printed something before.

But up to you.>>>>

This is my first time, so I am probably being over cautious.

I made it also the first time in that fashion, 14 years ago.

-cautious-? Ok, but that is not an exam.

And, I go there 2-3 days before my Visa expires. Sometimes at the last day.

[ALFREDO]

Maybe you should fly to Phuket Town Immigration, there are most times, some Volunteer "Tourist Police" Falang guys,

who are happy to guide you threw, even writing the sheet of paper.

Would nor be surprised if that is not also happening in Pattaya.

I was never at the Bangkok Immigration, so. But in (Udon Thani, Khon Kaen, Korat, Nong Khai, Ranong, Phuket Immigration offices)

From new style, I do not know, just was there on 26.10. to prolong my stay for reason father to a Thai child, saw no Information regarding some change.

Do you stay alone? If you have a Thai GF or BF than come with her/him and make the extension,

this person, could be a help if you have a common language together.

[Kevin2012]

Normal is, go to your nearest Immigration, take the right form, fill it out, place your photo on it and hand it over to the Immigration officer with a copy of your Passport name-photo pages and a copy of your entry stamp and the entry card.+ 1.900 Baht

Most Immigration offices have a Copy shop on their compound or even make the necessary copies themselves for a small fee.

Should you forget the copies.

No big deal.

Hi

Both you and Lopburi have mentioned taking a copy of the entry card.

There is no entry card. They take that part of the form from you when you enter Thailand. There is only the departure card stapled to my passport, plus the tourist visa page.

What am I mis-understanding?

[notmyself]

Also called a landing card. What you have in your passport is just the departure section. I got an extension this afternoon with the usual 'just' TM. 7 which I already had so filled in last night, passport which should have your landing card stapled inside and one photo. Just handed those along with 1920 Baht over and picked up an hour later. This is the Samui office and from what I hear, other offices have other ways. I got sick of scanning and printing out various pages only to be told they didn't need them so better to pay 20 Baht and let them take what they need.

[ALFREDO]

Hi

Both you and Lopburi have mentioned taking a copy of the entry card.

There is no entry card. They take that part of the form from you when you enter Thailand. There is only the departure card stapled to my passport, plus the tourist visa page.

What am I mis-understanding?

Lopburi,

will maybe answer himself, he did not write -Entry card- anyway, he wrote

"Copy of passport date page, visa, entry and departure card."

He meant the "entry" to TH so the "entry" stamp.

I wrote wrong, I should write, -Departure card-, but for me, this is the card I get before I enter Thailand

and have to fill out before I am allowed to get "entry" to TH.

So -naive- as I am, I never saw that differently, I saw that card as one, since 22 years of entering TH, maybe a 100? times.

I say, -entry- card to it, sorry.

Also, when, on one part of the card is written "Departure card".

You, seem to -split hair- with that question, are more -Papal, than the Pope-, for me at least!

[lopburi3]

As said it is the card you receive on entry so many will call it as such. It is the departure section copy that you will have to provide for immigration matters as that is all you have remaining. But my "entry" in the above was in reference to your permitted to stay until (entry) stamp in passport which is a normal requirement for copy in any immigration matter.

[Kevin2012]

Thanks everyone for the clarification.

I thought that was the case, just wanted to check....going to Chang Wattana in Bangkok this morning with a Thai friend

[notmyself]

Good luck

[ALFREDO]

Good luck

-notmyself-

You are very kind, but "luck" ?

Usually, its only a formality, that Visa extension, a possibility for TH to take a bit more money from you!

In Malaysia, most Passport holders of Tourist countries, get 90 days when they walk threw the Passport control,

without presenting a Visa at all!

That 90 days, in Malaysia for free, in TH, about 3.000 Baht+>

and the time and expenses you have to reach a Consular section and later, Immigration office in TH.

A really, big piece, of GOOD -Luck-

you need, when you want a Visa from your Home country EU-Schengen-Visa, USA, Australia, Great Britain, ect.

for your Unemployed, -No have nothing- in her name girl, from S-E-A!

[notmyself]

Good luck

-notmyself-

You are very kind, but "luck" ?

Usually, its only a formality, that Visa extension, a possibility for TH to take a bit more money from you!

In Malaysia, most Passport holders of Tourist countries, get 90 days when they walk threw the Passport control,

without presenting a Visa at all!

That 90 days, in Malaysia for free, in TH, about 3.000 Baht+>

and the time and expenses you have to reach a Consular section and later, Immigration office in TH.

A really, big piece, of GOOD -Luck-

you need, when you want a Visa from your Home country EU-Schengen-Visa, USA, Australia, Great Britain, ect.

for your Unemployed, -No have nothing- in her name girl, from S-E-A!

Nothing is a certainty though some things have a higher rate of success than others. I have found over the years that many things in Thailand appear to have a near certain chance of success but in actual fact they do not. There was no reason why I should not have been granted an extension yesterday but I could have been refused on the grounds that they just felt like it.

[ALFREDO]

-notmyself-

True, but I never, ever read or heard about a Visa extension was not permitted.

If so, there has to be a serious problem! Tourist got in conflict with police or the law or ect. But from nothing?

Thailand can be stubborn, but so stubborn?

Ok, never say never, but, as you write, could have also fallen a loose roofing tile on your head yesterday.

Cheers Alfred

[notmyself]

True, but I never, ever read or heard about a Visa extension was not permitted.

Happens all the time Al. People turn up drunk or shirtless etc. and the fella behind the desk thinks &lt;deleted&gt; and refuses. Don't have to give a reason for refusal. Maybe he found out last night that his chick is playing around and feels in a bad mood. Y'know....