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Can I extend my 45-day exemption visa in Thailand if I have a 1-day overstay?

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Nov 18, 2022
2 years ago
Jamie ********
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I’ve been an idiot….. 😩

I arrived on a 45 day exemption visa and went to extend today in Bangkok. I’ve left it to the last minute to extend and was assuming the immigration office would be open as there was no public holiday. However, I didn’t think about APEC…. and the office at IT park is closed from 16th to the 18th. The problem is my visa expires on the 20th (this Sunday).

Question…. Can I go again on Monday and extend for 30 days with a 1 day overstay?

Has anyone done this before? Do they allow it?
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The original poster arrived in Thailand on a 45-day exemption visa but waited until the last minute to extend it and found that the immigration office was closed due to APEC. They asked if they could extend their visa on the following Monday after a 1-day overstay. Several community members confirmed that as long as they go on Monday, they would receive an overstay stamp but likely wouldn't be fined due to the closure being a public holiday. Alternatives were also discussed, such as leaving the country and returning for a new allotment of 45 days.
Michael **********
Which immigration office in Bangkok for 30 day extension
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Graham ******
@Michael *********
 It depends what entry stamp you have, tourist visa or visa exempt. If you bought a Tourist Visa from the Thai Embassy/Consulate in your country before you left for Thailand and were stamped in for 60 days you get your extension from Chaengwattana Counter J. If you entered on visa-exempt, you are going to go to IT Square, Laksi Plaza temporary office, just next to Lak Si station of SRT Dark Red Line. All extensions cost 1900B.
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Michael **********
@Graham *****
 yes we have the 60 day visa Thank you
2 years ago
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John ********
I caught covid in Thailand 2 days prior to my 30 day expiration, and the day before I was to fly home, but I had to self isolate for 10 days. My wife took the hospital report to immigration 2 days after my expiry date. 1900 baht got a 60 day extension. No red stamp.
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Oliver *******************
Or you could just go to another immigration office I'm another province
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Stuart *********
@Oliver ******************
 you could indeed do that. Except the OP posted on a Friday, around 4 or 5pm which would mean any other office would be shut until Monday anyway. Some offices will require a TM30 filed in their province to get a exempt or tourist visa extension. Not always the easiest thing to get if you’re in a rental place or Airbnb.
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Marianne ********
@Oliver ******************
 I chose not to as I was not sure if they would deal with someone with adress from another province.
2 years ago
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Jamie ********
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@Oliver ******************
 sure, if I had enough time
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Petteri **********
Flying out of country is a good option. Extension is 50€. You can get one way flight to Phu Quoc with same price and get re-stamped with 45 days.

And you're in Bangkok already, so why not. I think that flight was 1h 20min
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Jeremy ********
just go on Monday, don't get arrested or stopped over the weekend and prepare some money for an overstay and the money for the extension...if you don't want to wait travel to a border town or prior to your expiration date, do a border bounce and come back with 45 days in your passport, or book a flight to another country do an out/in and have 45 more days of fun...good luck in your decisions
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Alistair **********
This is what they stamp in your passport. "Relaxation of fines on public holidays". Idk if it actually counts as an overstay on your record.
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Jamie ********
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Thank you
@Alistair *********
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Alistair **********
This is the normal overstay stamp where you pay a fine
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Giorgio ******
looks like everyday on this foru m there is a 'traveler , LOL" Who needs a personal assistant just to take care of his little "not even a visa ". pathetiktik 🤣🤣🤣
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Todd *********
@Giorgio *****
 loll we shall expect silence from you going forward
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Cassius **********
@Giorgio *****
 This U? Why do you get to treat this group as your personal assistant with vague questions such as this but someone else does and it's pathetic?
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Greg *********
@Giorgio *****
 Even more pathetic: people who join advice groups, then sneer condescendingly at anyone who dares to ask for advice. 🙄
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Stuart *********
@Giorgio *****
 what’s pathetic is making a comment such as yours. It was a legitimate question by someone who’s realised they’ve made a mistake and asking what is the best way to correct it. Most foreigners unfamiliar with Thai immigration would probably not know the answer.

If there’s posts on here you don’t like, scroll on by or leave.
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Thai ******
@Stuart ********
 well said.
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James ***********
@Gio****
 Anthony Bourdain over here, look out!
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Alistair **********
@Giorgio *****
 did u miss the name of this group....?
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Giorgio ******
@Alistair *********
 no I'm used to it !!
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Marianne ********
I went to Vietnam. Didn't want a overstay in my passport at all.

On my way back now to BKK.

Hoping they let me back in easily XD
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Sophie *********
@Marianne *******
 I think you made a good call. I've got an overstay in my pp - not actually don to me but TIT. And I really don't want another - with all its implications.
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@Sophie ********
 I have a new passport too. Did not want that smear in my passport XD
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Ronald *********
@Marianne *******
I am doing the Vietnam rout in January, any recommendations where to fly to and hotel for a couple of nights.
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Marianne ********
@Ronald ********
 I have no Suggestions. I went to Ho Chi Min earlier today. Now returning to BKK same day.

I will say though. Immigration at Ho Chi Min feels like a slow dragging nightmare.

So many sooo loooong liiiiines.

Experience may vary.
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Jamie ********
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@Marianne *******
 did you have to pay for a visa or apply for visa in advance or can you just get visa on arrival?
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Marianne ********
@Jamie *******
 I am eligible for Visa Exemption in both Thailand and Vietnam
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Jeremy ********
@Ronald ********
 Singapore, KL, Vietnam (you might have to buy a 30 day visa depending on your passport), Bali those are the cheap alternatives for SEAsia that are open...if you want a more lucrative alternative the world is large and planes fly everywhere
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Ronald *********
@Jeremy *******
I am flying to Vietnam from Thailand expect to stay for a couple of days and return for the 45 day visa exempt.

Any recommendations for where in Vietnam to go, and a good hotel ?

Did you have more than one day there ?
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Jeremy ********
@Ronald ********
 in the pre COVID world I used to go to Vietnam often…I always stayed in Ho Chi Minh in district one…hotels are cheap there
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Nick *******
As it was not a national holiday, only in Bangkok area you will be fine, as long as you go on monday. Dress smartly & with a smile. The most you will get is a 1 day overstay stamp. You might even get away with it under the circumstances, As you was not to know about the closure being a tourist here.
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Duncan *******
@Nick ******
 I agree with everything you said except how you interpret the dress smartly part. I've heard that over and over again in the nearly decade I've been here and Thai Immigration mostly doesn't care. Never turn up to immigration looking like you've been to the beach but I'd been told to wear long pants and a long-sleeved shirt previously - I did and then I didn't and nothing was different. I always wear a polo shirt with my shorts and flip-flops when getting two year extensions - and I'm sure they don't care.
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Stuart *********
@Duncan ******
 Government offices, including immigration have a dress code. You can’t wear singlets or short shorts or midriff bearing t-shirts, etc.

In general what type of shoes you wear are not considered an issue.

In Phuket many times a day people are asked to cover up this or that or come back dressed more appropriately. Generally these are people arriving at the office wearing little more than they would on a beach.
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@Stuart ********
 No disagreement, but they vary as you know and CM doesn't care within reason.

What you're saying about Phuket is interesting - then again, Phuket also attracts s**t tourists and some of the worst of my fellow countrymen. Making a bogan wear a proper shirt to turn up to extend is a reasonable request :)
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Stuart *********
@Duncan ******
 Any form of shirt that covers your shoulders is considered “reasonable”. The “bogan” remark gives me a clue to your nationality, but although there could be some issues with your countrymen it’s generally those from another country that are the worst offenders.
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@Stuart ********
 I met some folks I know from FB at a market in Hang Dong about a month ago. After being introduced as Australian, my first response was I'm sorry, my grandparents were Scottish and I could, with some effort, get UK citizenship 😉
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Brandon ************
As long as you go on Monday, they will put an overstay stamp in your passport and indicate that it was due to holiday, and you will not be fined.

But you should never leave anything like that until the last minute, especially since you can extend when you have 45 days left in Bangkok. So you could have gone the day you arrived and gotten your extension.
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Phil ********
@Brandon ***********
 True, but he did admit to being an idiot so we'll give him some slack. 🤣
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