NON-O visa but only allowed 30 days?

[NickR2014]

I just returned to Thailand last week and my Non-O visa is not due to expire until 24 March. The immigration officer at Suvarnabumi stamped a 30 day allowance instead of the expected 3 month? Can I get this changed and if so, how & where.

I should have checked as soon as it was done but I was distracted and only noticed it once in the taxi home.

I plan to get another Non-O when I am in the UK (HULL) in May. Have any issues been reported with getting repeat non-O 1-year visas?

[Crossy]

Your local immigration office can fix, no issue other than time.

Moving to Visas.

[96tehtarp]

Note to OP: (and everyone)

Always verify your "admitted until" stamps, mine have been incorrect approximately 3 out of 10 times, this especially at land border crossings.

[Lite Beer]

Regarding applying at Hull?

All depends on what grounds you are applying.

http://www.thaiconsul-uk.com/downloads-and-visas.aspx

[Upnotover]

If marriage based you will be far better off going to another consulate, as far as I know only Hull has the financial requirement and others can issue same day.

[ubonjoe]

If the multiple entry non-o is based upon marriage you can apply by post to the embassy and no financial proof will be needed.

[longstebe]

Liverpool do it to based on marrige and they don't require proof of funds.

[siam2007]

happened to me too at Suvarnabhumi once. 30 days only instead of 90. Luckily I made it a habit (at ANY immigration in Asia and South-America) to immediately check the stamp after passing the Immi-desk. Went back and told officer in friendly words that I should get 90 days and not just 30. He changed stamp, though no word of apology or further comments

[Suradit69]

Note to OP: (and everyone)

Always verify your "admitted until" stamps, mine have been incorrect approximately 3 out of 10 times, this especially at land border crossings.

And remember to write your visa number on the entry card rather than expecting the immigration officer to find it on his own in a passport with many visas and other stamps..

[masuk]

happened to me too at Suvarnabhumi once. 30 days only instead of 90. Luckily I made it a habit (at ANY immigration in Asia and South-America) to immediately check the stamp after passing the Immi-desk. Went back and told officer in friendly words that I should get 90 days and not just 30. He changed stamp, though no word of apology or further comments

I had to do the same at CNX.

Had a full 12 months worth of retirement extension, and I was stamped in for 30 days.

I went back to the airport Immigration office next day and they fixed it in a couple of minutes.

[realenglish1]

What I always do is point out my O visa to immigration every time I come in It avoids problems like this.

[Shiver]

I've had exactly the same issue. Went to the local immigration, queued for hours, had to go upstairs for photocopies, queued again, then they close for lunch, start tickets with a new different coloured roll, waited some more, eventually walking into the office even though it wasn't my ticket number - highly irregular for me (this was about 5 hours into the ordeal), didn't make any noise at all, just stood there. The guy looked at it, stamped and signed it, and I was out. The actual process was about 2 mins and zero cost.

That was several years ago, and immigration seem to be a lot more efficient now, but still it could take a while if it is busy, so plan your day accordingly.

[Thanyaburi Mac]

And, if you are on a Re-Entry Permit, write down that number, not your original visa number, and next to it write: RE-ENTRY PERMIT.

Mac

[bill014]

Check that you were issued a MULTI-entry non-O visa. If not, then the immigration was correct in only giving you a 30 day stamp. Remember, you have to apply for a re-entry permit BEFORE leaving Thailand!

[Shaunduhpostman]

I was given a 30 day stamp once as well at Don Meuang. Just for the benefit of others who haven't been through the scenario, so that you might condiser what might happen, I'll recount how I got out of being pushed into accepting a 30 day stamp.

Arriving from Indonesia at Don Meuang I got the wrong stamp. When I tried to be indirect and ask if there was some mistake, I was told there wasn't, that I only had 30 days left on my Non-O multi so was therefor only entitled to 30 days. The official knew better as did I and I then got more direct about it and said, "That wasn't how it was done last year. The rule is that as long as the visa is good you are entitled to a 90 day entry, it doesn't matter if that 90 days exceeds the expiration date of the visa." Surprisingly he gave in and said, "OK, sorry, how long you want to stay?" I said, "There's a rule, isn't there? It isn't up to me. The rule is we get 90 days, I'd like a 90 day stamp." He then gave me the 90 days.

[Shaunduhpostman]

Ditto about the visa being a multiple entry. If it is a single entry, it may well be correct that you only get 30 days, but I don't actually know.

[TomYumpoochai]

Dont forget to write your visa number on the arrival card...if its blank they just assume youre arriving for a visa exempt as almost happened to me on my 1st non o.

[OJAS]

Your local immigration office can fix, no issue other than time.

Moving to Visas.

I was under the impression from previous reports on here that, apart from the airport at which you were incorrectly stamped in, the only place where you could get errors of this nature corrected was Chaengwattana Immigration in Bangkok, where there was a dedicated window for this purpose. Is this no longer the case (assuming, of course, that it ever was in the first place)?

[ubonjoe]

Your local immigration office can fix, no issue other than time.

Moving to Visas.

I was under the impression from previous reports on here that, apart from the airport at which you were incorrectly stamped in, the only place where you could get errors of this nature corrected was Chaengwattana Immigration in Bangkok, where there was a dedicated window for this purpose. Is this no longer the case (assuming, of course, that it ever was in the first place)?

It can be done at any immigration office. I don't recall any reports saying otherwise.

There might be an immigration office that would incorrectly tell a person they cannot do it.

[Chuckles78]

I also show my Visa page when I hand the passport at the airport.

They know where the first page is. So far so good.