Expiry of retirement visa.

[wineman]

I am English and live in Thailand on a retirement visa which expires in November 2014. I do not intend renewing it because I will be returning to England

permanently. When it expires will I be allowed to stay in Thailand for 30 more days because I have a current U.K. passport?

[ChickenWing]

I believe you would have to exit and re-enter the country in order to get a 30 day visa-exempt stamp.

[Lite Beer]

When your current permission to stay expires you need to exit the country and return to get 30 days.

[metisdead]

Moved to the visa forum.

[lopburi3]

As said you must leave the day your extension expires until you request a new extension. With qualification you would get normal extension so you could get another year for 1,900 baht fee if you have the financials. If not you would be 7 days to leave country. As said you could attempt to obtain a tourist entry but that could be an issue as you would not appear to be a tourist and starting next month there 'may' be serious checking on such travelers. So if you can qualify I would just get another one year extension and then leave when you want (no re-entry permit). If you do not be prepared to explain reason for the 30 day entry and check back here to see how it is being enforced before travel.

[TerryLH]

" If not you would be 7 days to leave country."

This also costs 1900 baht.

If you don't apply for an extension, than as posted above, you would need to leave the day your visa expires.

[Suradit69]

I am English and live in Thailand on a retirement visa which expires in November 2014.

All of the above posts are true if you mean that you live in Thailand on an extension of stay granted by Immigrations (not a visa) based on retirement and the extension expires in November. You can leave the country and hope you can re-enter with a visa exempt entry of 30 days or apply for an extension at immigrations, which would end up allowing you only 7 days more or get a tourist visa in a neighboring country.

If you mean you obtained a Non-Imm O-A visa (often called a retirement visa) from the embassy/consulate in UK and that it expires in November (i.e. the "use by" date on the original O-A visa is November), in that case you could exit and re-enter the country before the visa expires and get another year's permission to stay.

Contrary to what some people think, it is important to distinguish between having an extension of stay issued by immigrations versus a visa issued by an embassy. What you can do at this point is quite different for one compared to the other.