Can I extend my Non OA visa by re-entering Thailand with new health insurance at Chiang Mai or Suvarnabhumi Airport?

And now I'm the one going off topic :O

BUT

People were mentioning the TGIA ( Thai General Insurance Association) website where the immigration offices can log in and view insurance (if it's a thai approved carrier)

This is what that looks like.

This is a print out of the proof of mandatory insurance for getting yearly extensions on an OA visa

You can see the change in coverage when they increased it from 440K to the 3.5M

I do not think that the passport control officers at the airport have access to that system thru the longstay website which is why they ask for the print out of your insurance

I did mine through Suvarnabhumi Airport, but for some reason, they would not accept the new information I had certificate for insurance and the original visa and I was about 45 days prior to it expiring, so there may be a day limit of when it can be done because they would not do my extension of stay when I went through 

We're getting off topic people, let's keep it on topic who has had an OA Visa, exited / reentered the country just before the Visa itself expired presenting a new years mandatory health insurance and gotten stamped in for another year.

Those are the people the O/P wants to hear from.

My only comment is that make sure you give enough time for the insurance company to enter it into the tgia system.

Although you must have a valid policy statement, immigration (in my experience) will not accept as proof. It must be in tgia.

I always remind my insurer when doing the renewal.

We normally don't do those "how did it work for you" posts BUT I'll let this on the group.

To be completely honest, you don't need any first hand experience, the OA visa works exactly like your understanding of it. (y)

As long as you enter before the visa itself (the PDF) expires AND you have a new year of the mandatory 100K USD health insurance you will be stamped in for a new year or as long as your health insurance is valid for up to a year.

Print out the PDF of the visa and the insurance compliance form present those with your passport when you stamp in

Won't matter if you use BKK/DMK/CNX etc, all the officers at passport control at all the international arrival airports know how the OA visa works, believe me you're far from the first foreigner stamping in to get the 'free' second year of stay out of an OA visa valid for a year :) ;)

Also please check your message requests in Messenger

I had messaged you in July last year and then again in Oct and noticed that you never checked. :/

It'll be under message requests in spam most likely because we are not friends on f/b

Best of luck with it, I'll leave the post up for a while in case any OA people respond back