I am on a 1-year Non-Immigrant visa. I entered Thailand with this visa on 22 June 2013. If the exact visa durationwas one year, I should leave the country before the 22 June 2014, I suppose.

However, because of a recent overseas trip, when I went through immigration at the airport, they stamped another three months into the passport, and it says Admitted until 30 June 2014. Is it safe for me to assume I can stay in Thailand until 30 June?

Thanks for your advice

What type of non immigrant visa do you have? What is the expiration date of your visa (enter before date on visa sticker)?

It sounds like a non-oa visa that gives you a one year entry each time you enter the country,

If that is the case they should of stamped you into the country for another year not 90 days.

Ok, thanks for the reply

It is a Non-Immigrant O Visa. The DATE OF ISSUE is06 June 2014. The ENTER BEFORE DATE is 06 June 2014. I first entered the country on the visa last year on 22 June 2013.

What's your thought on what day it expires?

Thanks

The expiration date is the enter before date. You can do an entry up to 6 June and get another 90 day entry.

The expiration date is just the last date you can use the visa not the maximum amount to time you can be in the country.

Ok, so since I got an extra 90 days the last time I entered Thailand, and the stamp says Admitted until 30 June, I can stay until 30 June and then leave?

despite the visa expiring on the 6 June? Is that correct?

Thanky

Yes

The expiration date does not limit your stay in the country.

You could even make a border crossing on the 5th of June and get a new 90 day entry if you wanted to.

Thanks that's great news. Much appreciated.

Ok, thanks for the reply

It is a Non-Immigrant O Visa. The DATE OF ISSUE is06 June 2014. The ENTER BEFORE DATE is 06 June 2014. I first entered the country on the visa last year on 22 June 2013.

What's your thought on what day it expires?

Thanks

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The date of expiration of a 1 year Non O multi entry VISA is one year from it's date of issue.

Each entry on that Non O multi entry visa will get you a "permitted to stay until" stamp for 90 days on entry to Thailand.

However your VISA expires on it's "must use before date" which is one year from the date it was issued.

So therefore by deduction you received the VISA on 6 June 2013 and it's "must use before" date is June 6 2014.

So if you leave the country and return to Thailand on the 6th of June 2014 you will get another "permitted to stay until" stamp for another 90 days then which will legally keep you in Thailand until that stamp expires on 25 August 2014 which is 90 days from your entry.

Even though your VISA expires on 6 June 2014, your "permitted to stay until" stamp keeps you here legally in Thailand for 90 days.

However, your VISA expires on 6 June 2014, and can not be used again or extended after that date.

Your VISA and the "permitted to stay until" stamps are separate things.

By leaving the country and then returning the day your visa expires for a 90 day "permitted to stay until" stamp is exactly how you can stretch a one year multi entry visa to keep you in Thailand legally for a total of 15 months.

You should do this by flying out and in to Thailand and NOT at a border land crossing.

Although it's perfectly legal to do such a visa run at a land border crossing not all the immigration officials at such a border crossing may have experienced such a thing before.

Most immigration officials at an international airport will have seen it before which is exactly why I recommend doing it by air and not at a land crossing.

That last 90 entry that you squeeze out of your one year multi entry Non O visa is the end of that visa ..... once that "permitted to stay until" stamp expires you MUST leave to get a new visa (of some type) if you want to come back to Thailand. If you do not leave then you start being on overstay and subject to an overstay fine.

Now be careful here.

You asked the question about how long your VISA was good for, NOT any extension on that VISA.

That's what I am answering the question about.

a VISA is issued by a Thai consulate or embassy OUTSIDE of Thailand and can be stretched like I told you above.

An EXTENSION is something you get at immigration INSIDE Thailand and can NOT be stretched like I told you a VISA can.

They are two separate things, and the rules for a VISA and an EXTENSION are different.

I am assuming you were asking your question about a one year multi entry VISA and not an extension on that visa you received in Thailand.

Edited May 18, 201412 yr by IMA_FARANG

Uh, if the visa says use before 6 June 2014, the OP would need to enter on June 5th, right? On June 6th the visa would have expired - or at least that's my understanding.

An entry can be done on the expiration date. Which in this case is June 6th. I always suggest making plans to do it no later the day before because one small problem get could result in the loss of that last entry on the last day.

In the rather long, rambling and slightly confusing post made earlier there is some misinformation buried in it.

It does not matter if you make your entry by air or land. The immigration officer will be very familiar of how a visa that allows more then one entry works. It will not be a problem getting the last entry out of the visa at a border crossing.

Thanks, IMA_FARANG, much appreciated that you took the time to respond in such detail, that clears it for me nicely. Learn something new every day. Have a nice day.