old passport , active visa.

[elliss]

  My  previous UK passport , contains  my  90 days, non - immigrant category O visa , active till Sept 2017 .

  Due to the fact that this passport is  almost full , i have recently aquired  a new UK passport .

  Would Thai immigration accept the  valid visa on my closed  passport ? .

   Thank you, for informed replies .

         

Edited May 2, 2017 by elliss

[ubonjoe]

Your visa remains valid in your cancelled passport.

You will use both passports on entry to the country to use the visa in the old passport and immigration will stamp you in for 90 days in the new one.

[elliss]

Thanks Joe .

[RandG]

7 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

Your visa remains valid in your cancelled passport.

You will use both passports on entry to the country to use the visa in the old passport and immigration will stamp you in for 90 days in the new one.

My wife (German passport) was in exactly this position a few weeks ago. Her existing passport was only 3 years old, but more or less full. She obtained a new German passport outside of Thailand (London) and we entered Thailand at Phuket Airport. Sods law, there was a trainee immigration officer on the desk went to, but the more experienced guy looking over his shoulder took my wife to another counter, spent a bit of time clicking around in the computer, and after a few minutes gave both her passports back, with the entry stamp in the new passport, with a handwritten comment next to it referring to the visa in the old passport.  During this time, I went downstairs and collected our luggage from the belts and we were out of the airport in 20 minutes.

[Bazle]

On 5/2/2017 at 3:24 PM, ubonjoe said:

Your visa remains valid in your cancelled passport.

You will use both passports on entry to the country to use the visa in the old passport and immigration will stamp you in for 90 days in the new one.

 

A follow up question, please.

 

If you have a retirement extension, or possibly several, and then need a new passport, do you have to carry the old passport which contains the original visa on which the extension(s) has/have been based?

[Upnotover]

3 minutes ago, Bazle said:

 

A follow up question, please.

 

If you have a retirement extension, or possibly several, and then need a new passport, do you have to carry the old passport which contains the original visa on which the extension(s) has/have been based?

No.