UK passport stolen. can get ETD, but how to restore my tourist visa?

[timtimtim]

hi,

My passport with tourist visa was stolen. I rang the UK embassy and they said I can get emergency document to fly home.

They wouldn't tell me anything about how to restore my visa. I found 5 phone numbers for Bangkok immigration but I couldn't understand the lady on the line.

If anyone knows where I go and what to do i'd appreciate it. I'm a little worried.

[steve187]

Visa's can not be transferred, but you can have your current permission to stay transferred to your ETD, at your local immigration office, the embassy will need to provide a letter asking for the transfer. what is the date on your permission to stay stamp issued when you arrived in Thailand, should be 60 days from entry.

edit i think you will need a police report as well

[digitalchromakey]

Were you on the original 60 day Permission to Stay or on a 30 day extension of a 60 day entry?

Either way, with a copy of the police lost passport report (don't give anyone the original) and a transfer pro-forma you should be able to get the 60 or 30 day Tourist Visa Stamp noted in your temporary passport (ETD) by your local Thai Immigration Department.

If you were on a 60 day entry you might even be able to persuade Immigration to give you the standard 30 day extension of permission to stay that would follow a 60 day entry.

However if you had unused 60 day entries (double or triple entry Tourist Visa) then these were lost when you passport was stolen, unfortunately there is absolutely nothing you can do about that.

If you can show residence in Thailand (your name at an address on some official papers) then you can apply in BKK for a replacement passport at HMPO's Agent VFS Trendy.

An ETD is quite limited, not accepted by many countries; it has your proposed itinery listed on the notes page (either to the UK or return to Thailand) with a maximum of 5 countries en-route.

[timtimtim]

Hi thanks fur the replies. I don't understand a lot of the visa language mentioned.

I'm a tourist from the UK in the country for 43 days. I bought a tourist visa in January. It said valid until April.

My flight to leave is march 18th, that's all I know. I filed a police report the day after it was stolen, later realising the passport number I wrote on the report was my old one and not my new one - I didn't realised new passports had different numbers.

What's a pre-forma? Where is my local immigration?

I have no idea what I'm doing.

[ubonjoe]

You may need to go back to the police station to correct your passport number on the police report.

The proforma as he calls it is a form you fill out with info about your old passport and the ETD at the embassy that they sign and stamp. Immigration will want that in order for them to reinstate your entry/permit to stay stamp in the ETD.

If you are in Bangkok the immigration office is Chaeng Wattana. If elsewhere their will be an immigration assigned for the area you are located.

In your case the visa does not matter unless you are staying longer than the 60 days you got on entry. The important thing is the stamp you got on entry that has the date you are allowed to stay in the country to.

[timtimtim]

I don't have a photo of my stolen passport, so I don't know about the details of the stamp I got.

Will immigration have these details?

[ubonjoe]

Immigration will be able to get your entry info from their data base.

Be sure you have a copy of the police report to give to immigration.

[phetphet]

i know this doesn't help you now, but it is a good idea to put your passport details, (also maybe photos of flight tickets, driving licence etc.) in an email, and send it to your self in a webmail account. That way you can access it at such times as you might need them. Alternatively, keep them on an encrypted usb key.