Visa 97 Days

[kamalabay]

Thai embassies are now issuing tourist visas for 90 days. After that you must leave or you will be subject to a 500 baht a day over stay.

Is this really true? If it is, it´s cheaper to pay overstay than leave the country. We are staying 97 days in Phuket(kamala) me and my wife. Hope its true,

[Lite Beer]

Thai embassies are now issuing tourist visas for 90 days. After that you must leave or you will be subject to a 500 baht a day over stay.

Is this really true? If it is, it´s cheaper to pay overstay than leave the country. We are staying 97 days in Phuket(kamala) me and my wife. Hope its true,

Not true.

Tourist visa will give you 60 days. This can be extended at immigration in Thailand for 30 days at a cost of 1,900 Baht.

7 days overstay at five hundred baht a day is 3,500 . Do a visa run for under 2,000 Baht. And it is legal. Overstay is not.

[kamalabay]

Ok, But you see I need 97 days. 60+30 is only 90. it´s 7 day short.

[lopburi3]

Tourist visa 60 + 30 day extension for 1,900 baht + 30 day entry without visa for 2,000 baht = 120 days. There is also a chance immigration would extend your stay another 7 days for another 1,900 baht with proof of your flight out so I would check that first. You should not plan to overstay as a police check before airport could put you and wife in jail.

[Maestro]

Ok, But you see I need 97 days. 60+30 is only 90. it´s 7 day short.

I do not know where you are at the moment, whether in Finland or in Phuket, nor do I know what Thai stamps you already got in your passport, Tourist visa, entry stamp?

First, let me confirm that what you said in your first post is correct: Thai consulates are “issuing tourist visas for 90 days”. A single-entry tourist visa has a validity of 90 days from the date of issue. You can use this to travel to Thailand one time at any time during these 90 days.

When you arrive in Thailand with your tourist visa, you present your passport to the immigration officer and you will receive a stamp in you passport saying “admitted <date> until <date>”. Depending on your nationality – which you did not tell us – this period of permitted stay will be 30 days or 60 days. In line with the discussion in this thread so far, let me assume that you qualify for 60 days.

So, let us do the mathematics:

Day 1: date of arrival

Day 60: expiration of permission to stay.

Anytime before day 60, you can apply at any immigration office in Thailand for an extension of permission to stay. The application fee is 1,900 Baht, and you get an extension of maximum 30 days, if this is the period you apply for. This brings us to:

Day 90: expiration of extended permission to stay.

Now comes the question of your unknown nationality again. Let me assume that you qualify for visa-exempt entry. Not later than day 90, you do a so-called border run, i.e. you leave Thailand, enter a neighbouring country, and return to Thailand on the same day:

Day 89: exit Thailand

Day 89: enter Thailand, receive permission to stay for 30 days

Day 119: expiration of new permission to stay.

Like Lopburi says, there is something else I would try in your case. A few days before day 90, with ticket in hand showing my confirmed flight out of Thailand on day 97, I would go to the local immigration office once more and ask if they would give me an additional extension of permission to stay for 7 days, again for a fee of 1,900 Baht. Chances are they will approve, if not, you can still do the border run on day 90 or preferably a few days earlier.

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Maestro

Edited November 13, 2006 by maestro

[Lite Beer]

Maestro. You have more patience than anybody I know.

[Maestro]

Maestro. You have more patience than anybody I know.

Well, Thai immigration matters can be difficult to understand sometimes...and it gave me something to do while I finished my glass of Bordeaux. Now, off to the garden to do some work.

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Maestro

[Lite Beer]

Maestro. You have more patience than anybody I know.

Well, Thai immigration matters can be difficult to understand sometimes...and it gave me something to do while I finished my glass of Bordeaux. Now, off to the garden to do some work.

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Maestro

You can afford Bordeaux???

[kamalabay]

Ok, But you see I need 97 days. 60+30 is only 90. it´s 7 day short.

I do not know where you are at the moment, whether in Finland or in Phuket, nor do I know what Thai stamps you already got in your passport, Tourist visa, entry stamp?

First, let me confirm that what you said in your first post is correct: Thai consulates are “issuing tourist visas for 90 days”. A single-entry tourist visa has a validity of 90 days from the date of issue. You can use this to travel to Thailand one time at any time during these 90 days.

When you arrive in Thailand with your tourist visa, you present your passport to the immigration officer and you will receive a stamp in you passport saying “admitted <date> until <date>”. Depending on your nationality – which you did not tell us – this period of permitted stay will be 30 days or 60 days. In line with the discussion in this thread so far, let me assume that you qualify for 60 days.

So, let us do the mathematics:

Day 1: date of arrival

Day 60: expiration of permission to stay.

Anytime before day 60, you can apply at any immigration office in Thailand for an extension of permission to stay. The application fee is 1,900 Baht, and you get an extension of maximum 30 days, if this is the period you apply for. This brings us to:

Day 90: expiration of extended permission to stay.

Now comes the question of your unknown nationality again. Let me assume that you qualify for visa-exempt entry. Not later than day 90, you do a so-called border run, i.e. you leave Thailand, enter a neighbouring country, and return to Thailand on the same day:

Day 89: exit Thailand

Day 89: enter Thailand, receive permission to stay for 30 days

Day 119: expiration of new permission to stay.

Like Lopburi says, there is something else I would try in your case. A few days before day 90, with ticket in hand showing my confirmed flight out of Thailand on day 97, I would go to the local immigration office once more and ask if they would give me an additional extension of permission to stay for 7 days, again for a fee of 1,900 Baht. Chances are they will approve, if not, you can still do the border run on day 90 or preferably a few days earlier.

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Maestro

Ok, I see. We are from Sweden (look the flag) and will arrive 10 January. I think I will search for double visa. But if I understand, We must leave Thailand before 60 days and then we come back we have 60 more days. Maby the imigration can give us 37 days before the 60 days last.

Thanks and enjoy your wine in the garden. Here in Sweden we have snow storm, so no garden for us.

[Lite Beer]

If you get a double visa you will still have to leave Thailand and come back again. Get a single , extend it for 30 days then do a visa run , will be cheaper.

[Maestro]

We are from Sweden (look the flag) and will arrive 10 January. I think I will search for double visa. But if I understand, We must leave Thailand before 60 days and then we come back we have 60 more days. Maby the imigration can give us 37 days before the 60 days last.

I always get those two flags mixed up but now I remember: Finland is blue on white.

Unlikely that you would get a 37-day extension on one application. They like to collect that fee twice.

A double entry tourist visa is a good idea, since you are still in Sweden, and costs even a little less than the other plan. Yes, you still have to do a border run, to activate the second entry, but you won’t need to get any 1,900 Baht extension.

Have an enjoyable vacation in Thailand!

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Maestro

[Maestro]

You can afford Bordeaux???

Not a Premier Grand Cru, of course, nor any other Cru; just regular plonk

I’ll give you anytime three bottles of this Bordeaux for a bottle of Penfolds Bin 8 Cabernet Shiraz.

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Maestro

[tropo]

Like Lopburi says, there is something else I would try in your case. A few days before day 90, with ticket in hand showing my confirmed flight out of Thailand on day 97, I would go to the local immigration office once more and ask if they would give me an additional extension of permission to stay for 7 days, again for a fee of 1,900 Baht. Chances are they will approve, if not, you can still do the border run on day 90 or preferably a few days earlier.

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Maestro

Maestro, correct me if I'm wrong, but if you apply (or ask) for a 7 day extension at the Immigration Office, don't you need to pay the 1,900 whether you're successful or not?

[Maestro]

but if you apply (or ask) for a 7 day extension at the Immigration Office, don't you need to pay the 1,900 whether you're successful or not?

I am sure you can talk to the immigration officer first and only if he says that your application will be approved do you hand it in and pay the fee.

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Maestro