http://www.suvarnabhumiairport.com/en/1001-re-entry-visa

 

Reading the above link (re-entry visa lolz) states that if I get a re-entry permit that means that I can "pause my permit"  (so the period of your leave will not be included in the duration of your permit) .

 

Am I reading this like an idiot or does this actually mean that if my extension of stay expires on July 6th 2017 and I leave for Canada and stay a month, my extension of stay will be "extended" for another month... until August 6th?

 

Surely not?

A Re-entry Permit, and whatever length of time you stay outside of Thailand, does not extend your Visa or Extension of Stay' rather it prevents it from being voided when you depart.

If the contrary was true, someone could presumably stay indefinitely just by obtaining, and using, Re-entry Permits.

Best not to read and believe things on websites like that.  It doesn't pause it, it keeps it alive.  When you come back you will be stamped back in until July 6th 2017.

You're reading it correctly and it's wrong. The amount of misinformation on websites is amazing!

A re-entry permit expires on the same date as the permission to stay or extension of stay that you have when you obtain the re-entry permit.

 

If you have an extension that ends on July 6, 2017, any re-entry permit you get would also expire on July 6th 2017 and when you return to Thailand before that date using that re-entry permit you'd be stamped in with permission to stay until July 6th, 2017. 

Edited September 29, 201610 yr by Suradit69

As already said above: don't believe what you read on sites other than the official ones.

And if you find information on official websites it doesn't mean that your Immigration Officer read it too or understand it the same way that you.

Yea.... I have actually read the above on several different web sites and considering that the above was straight from the immigration division at AOT... well.....

19 hours ago, allane said:

A Re-entry Permit, and whatever length of time you stay outside of Thailand, does not extend your Visa or Extension of Stay' rather it prevents it from being voided when you depart.

If the contrary was true, someone could presumably stay indefinitely just by obtaining, and using, Re-entry Permits.

 

At what point do you cease to be stamped as "permitted to stay" in a situation like this:

 

O-A visa runs out on July 1 2017.

Leave on a "visa run" on (say) June 25, 2017.

Re-enter and you now have permission to stay until June 24, 2018.

Buy a Re-entry permit.

Leave LoS on (say) Sept 2 2017.

Re-enter on (say) Feb 2, 2018.

 

What is stamped in yr passport on Feb 2, 2018???

Permission to stay until June 24, 18 

or

Permission to stay till Feb 1, 2019.????

 

 

It's very poorly written, but it may be referring to doing 90 day reports, as in, the period of your leave you will not be required to complete a 90 day report as per conditions of an extension of stay permit.

Your report date will be reset to 90 days from the date of your return, so therefore you absence will not affect the requirement to report every 90 days of your current permission to stay.

 

Just my slant on reading it and making some sense of it.

1 hour ago, blazes said:

What is stamped in yr passport on Feb 2, 2018???

Permission to stay until June 24, 18 

June 24th, 2018

The other thing about Re-Entry permits that has not been mentioned in the above discussion is that they expire when you do an extension..

E.g.  You have an extension to 31 dec 2016, with a REP to the same date.

You then extend your permission to stay on the 1st Dec 2016 (to 31 dec 2017), but don't renew your REP.

if you then leave on 5th Dec and return 15th Dec, you will find your new extension of stay had been cancelled because the original REP was no longer valid (even though it said it was...!).. You will only get a 30/15 day visa exempt entry.

 

So BEWARE...

2 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

June 24th, 2018

 

So the underlying "answer" to Allane's comment  ["If the contrary was true, someone could presumably stay indefinitely just by obtaining, and using, Re-entry Permits."]    is that there is a limit to the amount of times one can obtain a "Permission to Stay" stamp.  Is that fact spelled out somewhere that can be referenced?

 

1 minute ago, blazes said:

 

So the underlying "answer" to Allane's comment  ["If the contrary was true, someone could presumably stay indefinitely just by obtaining, and using, Re-entry Permits."]    is that there is a limit to the amount of times one can obtain a "Permission to Stay" stamp.  Is that fact spelled out somewhere that can be referenced?

 

I based my answer on your post.

After June 18th, 2018 you would not get another entry since the OA visa would of expired about a year before.

5 hours ago, Jedsada3 said:

As already said above: don't believe what you read on sites other than the official ones.

And if you find information on official websites it doesn't mean that your Immigration Officer read it too or understand it the same way that you.

 

Actually, the official website is the most dangerous of all, because people expect the information on it to be gospel. It is not. There is plenty of wrong information on there also. Look at the number of places where it tells you to go to Suan Plu.