Leave Thailand just before Non O-A visa expiry

[AYJAYDEE]

A friend on a Non O-A tells me he went to immigration and got a rentry permit and left the country a few weeks before the expiry date of his Non O-A. He says the re-entry permit is valid for 1 year from date of issue. Does this mean he can re-enter thailand any time within that year even though the visa itself has expired?

[ubonjoe]

If he has a multiple re-entry permit he can leave and re-enter country as many times as he wants to up to the date it expires and get the same permit to stay date he has now.

A visa only allows you to enter the country it's expiration date does not limit the amount of time you can be in the country.

[KhunBENQ]

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He says the re-entry permit is valid for 1 year from date of issue. Does this mean he can re-enter thailand any time within that year even though the visa itself has expired?

 

So the answer to this statements/question is not a simple "yes".

The validity of the re-entry permit can be much shorter than a year.

He has to check the validity on the re-entry permit.

 

It is one year from the last date of entry to Thailand with the valid Non O-A.

(in other words what ubonjoe wrote)

[Eclipse]

A Re Entry Permit is valid for the length of your current permision to stay.

Could be a few days or could be 12 months.

Edited August 3, 2016 by Eclipse

[elviajero]

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Does this mean he can re-enter thailand any time within that year even though the visa itself has expired?

 

When your friend last entered Thailand using the 'O-A' visa he would have been granted a 1 year permit to stay. When he applied for the re-entry permit it would have been issued with an expiry date equal to remainder of that 1 year permit to stay. He can re-enter anytime before the expiry date of the re-entry permit. The re-entry permit is not connected to the 'O-A' visa so it doesn't matter that it has expired.

[AYJAYDEE]

As he claims his re-entry permit expires 1 year from the day he got it, I can only assume he must have got a 1 year extension of his permission to stay at the same time. 

[JimGant]

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As he claims his re-entry permit expires 1 year from the day he got it, I can only assume he must have got a 1 year extension of his permission to stay at the same time. 

 

Or he got it on the day he last entered Thailand on his still-valid O-A visa -- getting stamped in for one year, and then getting a re-entry permit that matches that time frame.