New passport, visa transfer?

[nicobangkok]

Hello,

I am getting a new passport next week from my embassy in Bangkok. I am getting a new one because the old one is almost full, it does not expire soon. I am on tourist visa,

My question is should I absolutely transfer the visa on the new passport, or can I just leave the country with the old (cancelled) one? What if I show both passports when leaving to the officer?

[nzexpat]

Visas are never transferred !

Just present both passports to the immigration officer when you depart

[MJCM]

Visas are never transferred !

Just present both passports to the immigration officer when you depart

Exactly, only if you are on an extension of stay (retirement, marriage etc) then you need to have have the extension transferred to your new passport. I just did this at Jomtien immigration, dropped of my old and new passport at immigration on Monday and picked them up Tuesday after 2pm, with the extension transferred. They didn't even charge me for this.

Edit: Forgot, please note when you get a new passport from your Embassy also request a paper from them that they issued you with a new passport, this was the first thing Immigration asked me for and I was lucky that I had one.

Please note: that piece of paper cost me 1030 THB.

[h90]

Visas are never transferred !

Just present both passports to the immigration officer when you depart

I had my tourist visa transferred to my new passport.

But I needed it because I changed the tourist visa into a business visa later.

[ubonjoe]

Visas are never transferred !

Just present both passports to the immigration officer when you depart

I had my tourist visa transferred to my new passport.

But I needed it because I changed the tourist visa into a business visa later.

I am certain all they did was an annotation of the visa. It certainly was not a visa you could use

[phuketrichard]

Visas are never transferred !

Just present both passports to the immigration officer when you depart

Exactly, only if you are on an extension of stay (retirement, marriage etc) then you need to have have the extension transferred to your new passport. I just did this at Jomtien immigration, dropped of my old and new passport at immigration on Monday and picked them up Tuesday after 2pm, with the extension transferred. They didn't even charge me for this.

Edit: Forgot, please note when you get a new passport from your Embassy also request a paper from them that they issued you with a new passport, this was the first thing Immigration asked me for and I was lucky that I had one.

Please note: that piece of paper cost me 1030 THB.

note;

the paper is free for US passports

[MJCM]

Visas are never transferred !

Just present both passports to the immigration officer when you depart

Exactly, only if you are on an extension of stay (retirement, marriage etc) then you need to have have the extension transferred to your new passport. I just did this at Jomtien immigration, dropped of my old and new passport at immigration on Monday and picked them up Tuesday after 2pm, with the extension transferred. They didn't even charge me for this.

Edit: Forgot, please note when you get a new passport from your Embassy also request a paper from them that they issued you with a new passport, this was the first thing Immigration asked me for and I was lucky that I had one.

Please note: that piece of paper cost me 1030 THB.

note;

the paper is free for US passports

Your lucky. When I picked up my passport, the consular officer asked If I wanted one as there had been reports that Immigration offices are asking for them, I said oke (lucky I did else it would have meant a return trip to BKK. So they are not automatically given)