Hi,

I was at Chaengwatthana Immigration extending my tourist visa the other day. After getting the tourist visa extension, I noticed my allowed stay in Thailand ends one day before my flight out of Thailand. Flying 1 PM on the following day from Don Muang, to be exact.

I then asked the staff (one of the main staff working on the visas, not at trainee or anything) if they could make an exception on this and please give me a stamp for one more day, until the date when I have a flight booked and paid out of Thailand. The staff not suprisingly said can not. But she also told me that if I leave within 24 hours of the last allowed date - as in, leave the next day - there are no problems, and no overstay stamp. She also asked me which airport am I flying out of and when I said Don Muang she nodded in approval and confirmed that there should not be a problem, and no overstay. 

Is this really true and I can fly out on the following day with no problems or was she just trying to get out of a conversation with me quickly?

Thank you!!

Asking for an extra day on your extension, you should
have told them you were a legend!


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Yes that is true. You shouldn't get fined, but you might get an overstay stamp your passport. 

 

It's common for people to miscalculate leaving dates/flights as the day you arrive/enter counts as day 1, so immigration have this 1 day concession at the airpots.

Edited December 15, 20169 yr by elviajero

If you read the rules for overstaying, you must basically overstay for more than 90 days, if you turn yourself in, to get banned from entering again. Overstaying usually comes with a fine of 500 bath per day. Many times though the first day of overstaying doesn´t carry any fine or other things issued together with overstaying. As always it´s up to the IO to decide this, and some are very hard and some are not. As elviajero says it can be a stamp in your passport, but it should not have any effect on your possibilies to come back.

 

What can be a problem is if you get caught in a random check with only overstaying one day, they can actually put you in jail for that. It´s always a risk with overstaying as small it might seem.

Edited December 15, 20169 yr by Get Real

32 minutes ago, Get Real said:

What can be a problem is if you get caught in a random check with only overstaying one day, they can actually put you in jail for that. It´s always a risk with overstaying as small it might seem.

A random check, as in the police doing a random check before I arrive to the airport and seeing Im overstaying by one day?

27 minutes ago, steveharrisisthelegend said:

A random check, as in the police doing a random check before I arrive to the airport and seeing Im overstaying by one day?

Yes, can be the police, but many of the normal police just check your nationality. You have immigration police on the streets also though, and they can check you. Mostly it is a random check at the airport done by immigration police if you get caught before you have a chance to give yourself up.

5 minutes ago, Get Real said:

Mostly it is a random check at the airport done by immigration police if you get caught before you have a chance to give yourself up.

I see. Thank you for the info. I have never seen this over 5 years of traveling by air quite a bit, is this common now?

 

11 minutes ago, steveharrisisthelegend said:

I see. Thank you for the info. I have never seen this over 5 years of traveling by air quite a bit, is this common now?

I have never seen a confirmed report of that actually happening.

1 hour ago, steveharrisisthelegend said:

A random check, as in the police doing a random check before I arrive to the airport and seeing Im overstaying by one day?

There is no way the police would arrest someone and send them through the deportation process if the person had a booked flight out of Thailand the same day.

 

You might be exposed to the possibility of corruption, but IMO that would be the worst case scenario.

Edited December 15, 20169 yr by elviajero

Is scare mongering really necessary?

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No problem, I have done this at least 3 times because best flight bookings worked that way, all you get at immigration counter is a little note hand written in thai to state fact you over but within 24hrs. they say nothing to you about, they do not put an overstay stamp in your passport and you go through the exit system same as normal.

Obviously it not the best way do things as If get delayed further etc hassle can arise but used sensibly/cautiously it no drama .

 

44 minutes ago, elviajero said:

There is no way the police would arrest someone and send them through the deportation process if the person had a booked flight out of Thailand the same day.

 

You might be exposed to the possibility of corruption, but IMO that would be the worst case scenario.

 

I agree with the above, and i've been doing this 1 day OS for over 20 years here, however last April around the time when the new OS rules came in...when I checked in to depart at suvarnabhumi the check-in girl was VERY concerned about my 1 day OS. though NO problem the IO sent me to the back office/OS area and I just got the usual extra OS stamp.

 

Anyway on this trip i have genuinely F****d-up and will be on 1 day OS when i depart in April...! AND I don't give a HOOT!

 

 

Edited December 15, 20169 yr by CaptainPeacock

I've done this before, there was no fine and no overstay stamp for just one day.

 

If you cross a land border then it might be different but at the Bangkok airports you should never have any problem with just 1 day.