We are entering Thailand on 30th November on a 30 day visa exempt entry (UK and Malaysia passports), so our last day would be 29th December. If I go to immigration in CM on 28th Dec, to get a 30 day extension, am I permitted to stay until 27 or 28th January? I'm not sure which day the 30 extension would start from? Because my flight out of CM is booked for 28th January. Thanks

An extension starts from the date your current permitted to stay date ends.

You can apply for the extension early and loose no days. Most immigration offices will do them up to a couple of weeks early.

So it will be January 27th unfortunately,

Thai immigration has its own logic.

30 + 30 makes 59

Strictly it is a one day overstay.

When does your flight exactly go?

December 29th plus the 30 days is the 28th of January.

Correct, your right.

I was puzzled by the wording:

An extension starts from the date your current permitted to stay date ends.

Indeed the 30 day extension gives the same result as would entering the country on the day after the first period.

Example (click), 16. Dec to 15 Jan:

http://thetimetogoisnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/thailand_bangkok_visastamp.jpg

Edited November 27, 201510 yr by KhunBENQ

Learn how to count !

http://betterexplained.com/articles/learning-how-to-count-avoiding-the-fencepost-problem/

Thanks for citing my advise from another post

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/857752-30-day-visa-exemption/#entry10085836

And then do the math for the so called "90 day" report, 89 days after last due date

Edited November 27, 201510 yr by KhunBENQ

Thanks for citing my advise from another post

And then do the math for the so called "90 day" report, 89 days after last due date

Sorry!

I had no idea you had already posted that link, however, the message bears repeating

Repetition is daily business (for @ubonjoe)

There are so many pitfalls here.

Visa validity counted in months (3, 12), bad if February is included.

Allowed stay in days (30, 60, 90).

Seasoning of fund in (?) days (60, 90).

90 day report 89 days after last due date.

Edited November 27, 201510 yr by KhunBENQ

Months are easy it is the ones in days that get confusing for some people.

Seasoning is 2 months, 3 months or 60 days for first retirement extension. Toss in the one for being the parent of child attending school it is 30 days for the first and 90 days thereafter.

Twelve months is easy because immigration does them a year from the date the current permit to stay ends.

Ok, thanks folks, so the conclusion is 28th January? I wasn't sure how Thai immigration count the days, as their counting is quite ambiguous at times !

Ok, thanks folks, so the conclusion is 28th January?

Yes, deffo.

I was wrong in the first place.

Example from the web, 16 DEC to 15 JAN (equivalent to 29 DEC to 28 JAN):