Short Overstay on NON-B visa?

[faxx]

I would kindly ask some help and your opinions.

I have a 1 year NON-B visa in my passport that is still good until the end of 2015. I do need to make visa runs every 3 months and my current stay is admitted until February 1st. I have an opportunity to rebook my 50 hour flight to Buenos Aires to a much shorter 28 hour trip to February 4th from the 1st and would like to rebook for that later date. However, that would make me overstay by 3 or 4 days. Do you guys think I will be OK by doing that and paying the overstay fine. I do not want to compromise my current 1 year NON-B with this incident. Thanks for your kind help in advance.

[paz]

You can get a 7 days extension at immigration for Bt 1,900. About same price than overstay fine and perfectly legal.

[faxx]

You can get a 7 days extension at immigration for Bt 1,900. About same price than overstay fine and perfectly legal.

Thanks for your kind input. Will this be a real extension (positive)? Or will it be an order to leave the Kingdom within 7 days (negative)?

[paz]

Will be a negative. That doesn't say it's an order any more than you current stamp date says so.

[wayned]

You will request the extension, they will deny it because there's no provision in the regulations for an extension but they will give you 7 days to "clear out"! It will cost you 1900 baht, you will be in the country legally for the 7 days and it will not affect your current visa or any future application. Best way to go!

Typical BS, you request 7 days, they deny it but then give you 7 days to clear out! They should be renamed to the "Immigration Intelligence Bureau"!

[faxx]

You will request the extension, they will deny it because there's no provision in the regulations for an extension but they will give you 7 days to "clear out"! It will cost you 1900 baht, you will be in the country legally for the 7 days and it will not affect your current visa or any future application. Best way to go!

Typical BS, you request 7 days, they deny it but then give you 7 days to clear out! They should be renamed to the "Immigration Intelligence Bureau"!

Thanks for your kind explanation. It is true that such extension stamps influence future applications, negatively. I have experienced this by myself with the embassy staff pointing their finger at such a 10 day tourist visa "extension" stamp to deny me a 1 year non-b visa in Dubai several years ago. My lawyers say it was an isolanted case, but it still happened and it cost me a lot of money. Thanks again for your input.

[ubonjoe]

That would of been a lot of years ago if you got a 10 day extension. They have not existed for many years.

That had to a one time occurrence because I have never heard of such a thing happening.

Getting the 7 days to leave is a lot better than an overstay stamp.

[faxx]

That would of been a lot of years ago if you got a 10 day extension. They have not existed for many years.

That had to a one time occurrence because I have never heard of such a thing happening.

Getting the 7 days to leave is a lot better than an overstay stamp.

It was in 2006. Well, I can always take a short flight to HKG or KUL and extend my stay this way. Might be the best of all solutions. Thanks again