Tourist Visa Renewal: Better To Do In or Out of the Country

[ryan10]

Hey everyone.I came in on a 60-day visa. I need to renew it. I was planning to get a 30-day extension in country. When that expired, I was planning to leave the country and get a new 60-day visa.

Someone just told me, though, that if I get a 30-day extension, I will have trouble getting another 60-day visa. Anyone know if this is true? If it's true, I'll just leave the country now and get another 60-day. If not, I'll just get the 30-day renewal.

Thanks!

Ryan

[Admin]

Hey everyone.I came in on a 60-day visa. I need to renew it. I was planning to get a 30-day extension in country. When that expired, I was planning to leave the country and get a new 60-day visa.

Someone just told me, though, that if I get a 30-day extension, I will have trouble getting another 60-day visa. Anyone know if this is true? If it's true, I'll just leave the country now and get another 60-day. If not, I'll just get the 30-day renewal.

Thanks!

Ryan

What kind of visa do you have?
Single entry or Double entry Tourist visa?

Assuming you have 60+60 'Tourist visa' Best to extend it Out of the country.

Extending it inside the country will most probably give you 7 days only.

What is your Thai Visa Expiration Date?
http://www.immigration.go.th/nov2004/content/visaxpiredate.html

[ryan10]

It's a 60-day tourist visa (and thanks for the info).

But i just noticed that I have a much bigger problem! I got a 60-day visa from the Thai consulate in China. I just looked at the entry stamp in my passport. The dumb F!@# at the airport immigration ignored the huge, shiny, full-page sticker that I purposely showed him and stamped me in on a 30-day visa!   

Now I'm here, it seems, illegally, as I arrived on My 1st, 47 days ago!

Should I go to Bangkok to sort this out? Or, can I do it somewhere closer to Buriram?

Thanks for the help?

Ryan

[Admin]

I advice you go to the nearest immigration office asap to show them the visa stamp the officer at the airport ignored as you say, hopefully they will be kind with you and sort it out by stamping the 'missing days' difference and in the same time you can advice directly with them regarding your future plans to extend your visit in Thailand.

Buriram Expats Visa Run service:
Email: info@buriramexpats.com
Tel: 081-0704750

Immigration Office Nakhon Ratchasima(Chok Chai):
http://www.buriramexpats.com/thai-visa/

7 Moo.7 ( Near Municipality office of Dan Kwian subdistrict )

Dan Kwian subdistrict, Chok Chai district, Nakhon Ratchasima province 30190

Tel: 044-375138 Fax: 044-375139

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โทรศัพท์: 044-375138 โทรสาร: 044-37-5139

[ryan10]

Thanks for the info!

For future reference, I guess this happens a lot. I got this reply back from a moderator at ThaiVisa.com

"It sometimes happens that people get the wrong stamp, and it is easily corrected at Bangkok immigration. They have a special desk for corrections there."

Cheers,

Ryan

[BromleyBumkin]

Thanks for the info!

For future reference, I guess this happens a lot. I got this reply back from a moderator at ThaiVisa.com

"It sometimes happens that people get the wrong stamp, and it is easily corrected at Bangkok immigration. They have a special desk for corrections there."

Cheers,

Ryan

Great way to stop errors by employing someone else to put them right 

[Starman]

Extending your tourist visa for thirty days within the country will not effect the prospects of getting another tourist visa. The problem is when you have too many tourist visas. Vientiene are now refusing 3rd in a row visas as are many other local consulates.

Even with a double entry it is OK to extend in the counrty. Just be careful. In order to activate your next entry you must leave before your "use visa by" date and not your permission to stay date. If  you leave and return after the "use by" date you will only recieve 15 days by entering by land or 30 by air.

Doing it correctly this then means that a 60/60 tourist visa becomes a 90/90.

If you have a single entry tourist visa...... Are you married? Do you have a child with a Thai lady? If so, and with the correct documents, you can extend a tourist visa at Immigration for 60 days.