My friend is currently on an ED Visa with multiple re entry permit which will expire 24 September 2014. She has found work in Singapore and would need to be in Singapore within the next 3 months for about 2 weeks to process her work permits etc. However, she will be returning to BKK after her trip to Singapore and by then her ED Visa would have expire. My question are as follows:

1. Does she need to cancel her ED Visa before leaving Bangkok? If yes, how does she go about doing it?

2. When the ED Visa expires, can she come back to Bangkok on tourist visa for 30 days? Her actual work doesn't begin in December so she wants to continue to tour Thailand.

Thanks in advance!

There is no need for her to cancel her extension of stay (it is not a visa) before leaving.

She could get a 30 day visa exempt entry (it is not a tourist visa).

It would be better though if she got a single entry tourist visa while she is in Singapore.

Thanks... I read in some other threads that she will need to obtain a letter from her language school to state that she no longer studies in the school. Something about getting a cancelled stamp on her ED visa? Of which she has to leave on the date the visa is being cancelled. Otherwise, she can also apply for an additional 7 days of extension? She is just worried that when she return to BKK, she will be stopped by the immigration for not cancelling her student visa.

She can cancel it if she wants to and apply for a 7 day extension.

She will not have a problem on entry for not canceling it.

Thanks... What if she returns BEFORE the ED Visa expires, does she need to cancel the ED Visa?

Also pertaining to your earlier answer, what is the difference between visa exempt and tourist visa? She is of Philippine nationality.

She would need to cancel the extension before leaving if it was not going to expired when she returned because she has a valid re-entry permit,

A visa exempt entry is what you get on entry without a visa. You have to apply for a tourist visa at a Thai embassy or consulate and you get a 60 day entry that can be extended for 30 days.

I am right to say that if she comes in on visa exempt (she is a Filipino), they will automatically accord her 30 days visa exempt which is extendable for another 30 days? Or do they stamp the date according to the date of departure on her airline ticket? She is currently thinking of 2 weeks stay but wants to have the option to extend or change the date of her return ticket to Singapore.

She will be stamped in for 30 days.

They do not base the entry on the departure date shown on a ticket out that they probably will never see.