Departing / Arriving around midnight

[KhunBENQ]

I remember to have read in the forum, that the planned date of flight is used for counting the number of days you stayed and also that you get a departed stamp for the planned date, even when arriving at the checkpoint before midnight.

Right?

What about the opposite case: your flight is scheduled to arrive before midnight.

Either through delay or long ques you appear at the checkpoint after midnight.

Will it be treated respectively (entry stamp for scheduled arrival date)?

Any experiences?

[ubonjoe]

It should always be the date you pass through immigration.

[GrantSmith]

You'll get the arrival stamp for the date you arrive.

[ubonjoe]

I have physically arrived before midnight but got stamped for day after. Was standing in line while immigration changed dates on stamps.

[Sam Drucker]

On more than one occasion where I arrived at Suvarnabhumi around midnight, but passed through immigration after midnight (perhaps as late as 01:00), the entry stamp showed the previous date; they had not updated their stamps. They certainly don't seem to be diligent about adjusting them at the midnight hour in my experiences.

[mickjn]

I think your time starts when your plane lands does not have nothing to do with immigration

[ubonjoe]

How would they know when you arrived? I have not been asked for a boarding pass. They can't keep track of when every passenger arrived.

It is date you pass through immigration that counts.

[mickjn]

How would they know when you arrived? I have not been asked for a boarding pass. They can't keep track of when every passenger arrived.

It is date you pass through immigration that counts.

Do you really think they cannot keep track of every passanger that arrives before they go to immigration

[ubonjoe]

How and why?

You have not entered or left Thailand until immigration stamps your passport.

[lopburi3]

Nonsense post removed.

[kimamey]

How and why? You have not entered or left Thailand until immigration stamps your passport.

I've never experienced this but my guess would be that it would be when you get stamped at immigration as that is the point at which you officially enter the kingdom. Having said that it's quite possible that immigration officials either forget or don't bother changing the dates on their stamps exactly on time.

If they do still have the previous day on their stamp you could mention it but I think all permissions to stay are at their discretion so you could end up worse off.

[Maestro]

Do you really think they cannot keep track of every passanger that arrives before they go to immigration

In Thailand, it does not work like in some other countries where:

1. The passenger himself has to enter personal data and flight data on a website of the government of the destination country.
2. The airline has to transmit the passenger list to an agency of the government of the destination country the moment the aeroplane takes off.
3. The airline has to transmit additional data about the passenger that the airline may have in its database, eg based on a frequent flyer scheme, such as as seat and meal preferences stated by the passenger, etc.

I am reasonably sure that the Thai immigration officer at the arrival desk at the airport does not get information from the passenger lists of flights onto his computer screen. There have been reports by members saying that they were asked to show the boarding pass stub on arrival at BKK airport and one member who did not have it on him had to rush back to the plane and luckily found it in the seat pocket. Such request for the boarding pass on arrival is perhaps made when a traveller indicates arrival by air within 24 hours after having departed by air, as in such case the traveller might have spent the entire time in the BKK transit area.

[transam]

I think your time starts when your plane lands does not have nothing to do with immigration

, I have arrived at swampy when other flights arrived at the same time, we all queue up together, don't think they will be fiddling with stamps for every passenger.

[Maestro]

I did a quick search and found some examples where a passenger's flight landed before midnight, he passed through immigration after midnight and got an arrival stamp with the date of the flight's arrival. Two examples are from 2007 and the third from 2012.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/103806-what-time-of-day-does-bangkok-airport-change-arrival-date-stamp/#entry1109234

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/103806-what-time-of-day-does-bangkok-airport-change-arrival-date-stamp/#entry1109334

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/591630-strict-30-day-rule-to-enter-thailand/?p=5758613#entry5758613

On the other hand, I remember seeing posts indicating that the date of passing through immigration was stamped as arrival date.

This is the query I used on Google and anyone interested in the subject may want to use the same or a similar query:

arrive date stamp scheduled site:thaivisa.com

[Maestro]

I have made no search about the departure stamp but from what I have seen posted in this forum the exit stamp is invariably for the day of departure when the scheduled flight date is on the following day and I have had some flights where this was the case.