Non Immigrant OA visa

[laolover88]

I have a multiple entry Non OA Visa which I normally use (successfully!!) for retirement extensions. On this occasion, when the 90 day entry expires I need, because of family circumstances, to go back to the UK 20 days after the permitted 90 days. Can a Non OA visa be simply extended for 30 days?

[ubonjoe]

A OA visa allows one year entries not 90 days. A multiple entry non-o visa allows unlimited 90 day entries.

No visa can be extended. Only a permit to stay can be extended.

There is no 30 day extension possible for a non immigrant visa entry.

If you are married to a Thai or are the parent of a Thai you can get a 60 day extension to visit them.

[elviajero]

The answer to your question is no.

• If you are granted 90 day stays you have a non 'O' not 'O-A'.
• If you are married or have a Thai child you can apply for a 60 day extension at immigration for 1,900 baht.
• Otherwise you will need to do a border hop to get a new 90 day permit to stay.

[tonray]

I think he means not being here for his 90 day report due date. He can do that before

[Eclipse]

I think the op needs to come back and explain.

As I have no clue what he is asking.

No good us guessing.

[KhunBENQ]

You seem to have an "ordinary" Non O.

Where do you read Non O-A?

One of the most confusing posts for long.

Please state what your visa sticker and last entry stamp show for the marked entries in this picture:

(TYPE OF VISA, CATEGORY, ENTER BEFORE, ADMITTED UNTIL)

EDIT, forget the NO. OF ENTRY (likely an "M"):

[KhunBENQ]

Retirement Extension: this would mean that you had been to the immigration office and got a one year extension with the regarding stamp.

[laolover88]

I have a Non O Multiple Entry Immigrant Visa issued by The Thai Embassy in London 24 January 2016. I have a passport stamp from Suvarnabhum Visa Class Non O. Dated February 5 2016 Admitted until May 4 2016. I have all the paperwork to apply for the extension of stay on the basis of retirement. I have done this for 10 years..I need to leave on May 23. I'll be back in a month or so after then. I just wondered if it was easier to get a different extension of stay? I do indeed have a a wife and children who are Thai Nationals.

[KhunBENQ]

So as suspected not a Non O-A but a normal Non O multiple.

If you have the paperwork for retirement extension ready then I don't see an "easier" option.

Get a one year extension and a re-entry permit before May 4.

You can then leave on May 23 and return within any time until one year after extension granted.

Any extension based on marriage or child (be it 60 days or one year) has more complicated paperwork.

Extension based on marriage always has an under consideration period of one month which could complicate with your travel plans or put pressure to do it right next week to have it ready stamped before May 23.

Why the hassle?

Which is your immigration office?

[ubonjoe]

I have a Non O Multiple Entry Immigrant Visa issued by The Thai Embassy in London 24 January 2016. I have a passport stamp from Suvarnabhum Visa Class Non O. Dated February 5 2016 Admitted until May 4 2016. I have all the paperwork to apply for the extension of stay on the basis of retirement. I have done this for 10 years..I need to leave on May 23. I'll be back in a month or so after then. I just wondered if it was easier to get a different extension of stay? I do indeed have a a wife and children who are Thai Nationals.

Why don't you just apply for the extension based upon retirement if you have the financial proof to do it. They get a re-entry permit for your trip.

You can apply for a 60 day extension to visit your wife. You wife would need to be with you when you apply for it.

[elviajero]

I have a Non O Multiple Entry Immigrant Visa issued by The Thai Embassy in London 24 January 2016. I have a passport stamp from Suvarnabhum Visa Class Non O. Dated February 5 2016 Admitted until May 4 2016. I have all the paperwork to apply for the extension of stay on the basis of retirement. I have done this for 10 years..I need to leave on May 23. I'll be back in a month or so after then. I just wondered if it was easier to get a different extension of stay? I do indeed have a a wife and children who are Thai Nationals.

• You can apply for a 60 day extension at Immigration on the basis of visiting your wife/family (1,900 baht). That would cover your extra stay.
• You could apply for a 1 year extension of stay (marriage or retirement) now or within the last 30 days of any future entry made using the multiple entry visa.
• If you make regular exits/entries it might be worth delaying the 1 year extension and continue using the visa.

[laolover88]

So as suspected not a Non O-A but a normal Non O multiple.

If you have the paperwork for retirement extension ready then I don't see an "easier" option.

Get a one year extension and a re-entry permit before May 4.

You can then leave on May 23 and return within any time until one year after extension granted.

Any extension based on marriage or child (be it 60 days or one year) has more complicated paperwork.

Extension based on marriage always has an under consideration period of one month which could complicate with your travel plans or put pressure to do it right next week to have it ready stamped before May 23.

Why the hassle?

Which is your immigration office?

If I do it with the child. Does the child need to be present? Complicated paperwork? Like what? Child has ID card, Passport, Copy Tabian Baan.

Nakhon Phanom....Never had a problem with them. Farang thin on the ground!!

[johnatong]

So as suspected not a Non O-A but a normal Non O multiple.

If you have the paperwork for retirement extension ready then I don't see an "easier" option.

Get a one year extension and a re-entry permit before May 4.

You can then leave on May 23 and return within any time until one year after extension granted.

Any extension based on marriage or child (be it 60 days or one year) has more complicated paperwork.

Extension based on marriage always has an under consideration period of one month which could complicate with your travel plans or put pressure to do it right next week to have it ready stamped before May 23.

Why the hassle?

Which is your immigration office?

If I do it with the child. Does the child need to be present? Complicated paperwork? Like what? Child has ID card, Passport, Copy Tabian Baan.

Nakhon Phanom....Never had a problem with them. Farang thin on the ground!!

If you are married they will not give you an extension based on being the parent of a Thai child.

[elviajero]

So as suspected not a Non O-A but a normal Non O multiple.

If you have the paperwork for retirement extension ready then I don't see an "easier" option.

Get a one year extension and a re-entry permit before May 4.

You can then leave on May 23 and return within any time until one year after extension granted.

Any extension based on marriage or child (be it 60 days or one year) has more complicated paperwork.

Extension based on marriage always has an under consideration period of one month which could complicate with your travel plans or put pressure to do it right next week to have it ready stamped before May 23.

Why the hassle?

Which is your immigration office?

If I do it with the child. Does the child need to be present? Complicated paperwork? Like what? Child has ID card, Passport, Copy Tabian Baan.

Nakhon Phanom....Never had a problem with them. Farang thin on the ground!!

If you are married they will not give you an extension based on being the parent of a Thai child.

That's not entirely correct. Some offices maybe, but I have had two extensions granted on the basis of a child/family, at two different offices, whilst married and with my wife present. There is no cast iron rule so it's up to the office processing the application.

[KhunBENQ]

Just reread.

Your current admitted until ends May 4.

You want to travel on May 23.

Your visa is valid until January 2017.

It's up to you to decide whether you want to go:

• the 60 day extension based on marriage
• one year extension based on marriage or retirement plus re-entry permit
• want to do a border run (by air or land) before May 4

The last option would be free of any paperwork.

If living in Bangkok(?) you can do an easy one day Kuala Lumpur excursion from Don Mueang for less than 3000 Baht, no visa cost etc.

Could be easier than the excursion to the immigration office.

[laolover88]

From where I live I can go to Laos and back in half a day. But needs 2 ie multiple Thai re-entry permits and Lao Visa. Retirement the best route. Thanks to you all.

[ubonjoe]

If you are in Nakon Phanom It might be easier and less costly to just cross the bridge to Laos and return for a new 90 day entry. Only $35 or 1500 baht for the Lao visa.

[BritTim]

From where I live I can go to Laos and back in half a day. But needs 2 ie multiple Thai re-entry permits and Lao Visa. Retirement the best route. Thanks to you all.

If you have a multiple entry Non O visa, you do not need re-entry permits to come back to Thailand.

[elviajero]

From where I live I can go to Laos and back in half a day. But needs 2 ie multiple Thai re-entry permits and Lao Visa. Retirement the best route. Thanks to you all.

You don't need Thai re-entry permits to do a border hop to Laos because you have a multiple entry visa. Just a Laos visa on arrival.

[steve187]

with a multi entry visa, you only ever need a re-entry permit after the expiry date of the actual visa.

[Suradit69]

I have a multiple entry Non OA Visa which I normally use (successfully!!) for retirement extensions.

If you've been getting annual extension based on retirement, you no longer have a valid visa. It's your permission to stay that's been extended, not the visa.

[technologybytes]

Don't be too hard on the OP, I hear a very high percentage of expats get confused and do not know the difference between a visa and an extension. Or a visa and an entry stamp. Or a extension and a 90 day report, or entry stamp and a 90 day report. It goes on and on.

[KhunBENQ]

As already written: the OP combined with the misleading erroneous title probably made up for one of the most confusing threads for a while.

After reading post #8 the current situation is clear to me.

After another reread of the OP I summarized the options that I am aware of in post #15.

That the OP holds a valid multi entry visa, lives near Laos and does not know that he can do a simple border hop really stunned me.

[laolover88]

Of course I knew I could do a border hop at a cost of minimum c.2900 Baht for the multiple Thai re-entry and Lao visas and then with a land entry.. My wife and daughter go to Laos every week. Not that stupid. 1900 Baht Retirement better! All hardly bank breaking!. Just thought there might be an even cheaper or paperwork simpler option

[ubonjoe]

Of course I knew I could do a border hop at a cost of minimum c.2900 Baht for the multiple Thai re-entry and Lao visas and then with a land entry.. My wife and daughter go to Laos every week. Not that stupid. 1900 Baht Retirement better! All hardly bank breaking!. Just thought there might be an even cheaper or paperwork simpler option

Not sure what the 2900 baht is for. If you mean a re-entry permit (single 1000 baht multiple 3800 baht) it is not needed since you have a multiple entry visa.

[Boycie]

How much is a Laos visa at the border? I'm thinking that would be your only cost.

[Jennyau]

Don't be too hard on the OP, I hear a very high percentage of expats get confused and do not know the difference between a visa and an extension. Or a visa and an entry stamp. Or a extension and a 90 day report, or entry stamp and a 90 day report. It goes on and on.

Im about to move to Thailand and start all this Visa, Extension, retirement etc etc etc. business and it terrifies me. And sure as hell not game enough to ask on here for the fear of being yelled at.....lol

Good luck to the poster....hope you get it sorted.

[KhunBENQ]

Of course I knew I could do a border hop at a cost of minimum c.2900 Baht for the multiple Thai re-entry and Lao visas and then with a land entry.. My wife and daughter go to Laos every week. Not that stupid. 1900 Baht Retirement better! All hardly bank breaking!. Just thought there might be an even cheaper or paperwork simpler option

Do you read or understand anything?

Posts #16, #17, #18?

Time to extend my ignore list and get out of this thread.

[KhunBENQ]

How much is a Laos visa at the border? I'm thinking that would be your only cost.

See #17 from ubonjoe (the reference in this forum).

1500 Baht or 35 USD.

And yes, only cost except travel.

[Boycie]

How much is a Laos visa at the border? I'm thinking that would be your only cost.

See #17 from ubonjoe (the reference in this forum).

1500 Baht or 35 USD.

And yes, only cost except travel.

Thanks for the #17 KhunBENQ, i missed that with all the confusion. I was reading the post from the OP stating minimum 2,900baht and retirement extension at 1,900baht being the best option. Unless there's anything cheaper and less paperwork?

Maybe the OP missed #17 too, but i didn't think they would be 'Not that stupid?'