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Can I really get multiple 30-day extensions for a Thailand Tourist visa?
Mar 7, 2021
5 years ago
Todd ********
ORIGINAL POSTERA friend is telling me that he has been able to do multiple 30-day extensions of his Thailand Tourist visa . I'm skeptical, because I thought a Tourist visa could only be extended once, for 30-days, for a total overall stay of 90-days. Am I mistaken?
For a bit more background, my friend says he was here with a work permit (I don't know more detail than that) and that he was able to convert to a "Tourist visa". After that, he says he has been getting multiple extensions...
Lastly, I asked if the the extensions he is referring to are actually the 60-day "Covid extensions" that many foreigners have been getting during the pandemic. He said No...
Anyway, does this make sense to folks in this group?
My personal situation is, I entered Thailand on a standard single-entry TR on Jan 21, 2021 and I'm planning to request a 30-day extension this week in Bangkok. I would be pleasantly surprised if i'm actually able to do multiple such 30-day extensions (as my friend claims I can do)...
For a bit more background, my friend says he was here with a work permit (I don't know more detail than that) and that he was able to convert to a "Tourist visa". After that, he says he has been getting multiple extensions...
Lastly, I asked if the the extensions he is referring to are actually the 60-day "Covid extensions" that many foreigners have been getting during the pandemic. He said No...
Anyway, does this make sense to folks in this group?
My personal situation is, I entered Thailand on a standard single-entry TR on Jan 21, 2021 and I'm planning to request a 30-day extension this week in Bangkok. I would be pleasantly surprised if i'm actually able to do multiple such 30-day extensions (as my friend claims I can do)...
TLDR : Answer Summary
The user is skeptical about a friend's claim of being able to get multiple 30-day extensions on a Thailand Tourist visa, which typically allows only one 30-day extension for a total of 90 days. Friends' comments clarify that the friend likely received COVID extensions instead and outline the current immigration rules regarding tourist visas. They emphasize that obtaining a tourist visa inside Thailand is impossible, and options like COVID extensions are available until a specified expiration date, alongside the potential confusion of visa terminology.
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Bob **********
Don't think you can get a tourist visa inside Thailand but you might be eligible for the 60 day Covid extension
Malcolm *************
If the tourist visa is for 90 days you can only enter Thailand once. If the visa is for 6-months you must leave Thailand every 60 days and on the last entry you can have it extended for another 30 days taken in total to about 8 and
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months if you time everything rightTod *********
@Malcolm ************
they are NOT issuing any 6 month Multi-entry tourist visas any more, not since this covid shit show started. What they have is either a 90 day single entry were you have 3 months to ENTER the country from the date they stick the sticker in your passport and then you get stamped in for 60 days and can get ONE 30 day extension on it OR
They have a Special Tourist Visa that is valid for 3 months to ENTER the country from the date they stick the sticker in your passport but where you get stamped in for 90 days AND you can get TWO additional extensions of 90 days each on it
Stuart *********
@Malcolm ************
sorry but completely lost on what you’re saying here. A single entry tourist visa (TR) gives you 60 days on entry. You can extend that once for 30 days, giving you a total of 90 days. Perhaps you’re meaning the multiple entry tourist visa (METV which no one sells now) valid for 6 months and each entry gives you 60 days each entry and pre Covid times you “bounced” out of the country and back in activating another 60 days. That option is no longer available.Michael ********
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Fahad *******
Cannot get TV here it's impossible so means cannot convert to TV too.
Steve *******
Your friend is most likely getting 'covid extentions', as you rightly stated you can only extend a single entry tourist visa once.
Todd ********
ORIGINAL POSTERLook like he is getting the "covid extensions", based on what
@Tod ********
was explaining.Tod *********
@Todd *******
totally covid extensions :P notice the ข้อ5 on them The top stamp is an under consideration stamp and then he went back on that date and got the bottom extension of stay stamp which closed the loop on that extension process.
He can go before the 30th of March and apply for another 60 day covid extension (that's the date the program is set to end)
Tell him to keep his day job because he sucks at a visa/extension stuff ;)
Todd ********
ORIGINAL POSTER@Tod ********
Thank you for helping me figure out what's going on. By the way, I'm planning to request my 30-day extension to my TR visa, tomorrow. After I get that, do you think I may have a chance to request a 60-day covid extension before March 30 (even though my extended TR won't expire until around April 20th)..?Tod *********
@Todd *******
depends on the office, ask if you can go straight to the 60 day covid extension (all they can say is no you have to take your 30 day extension first).Todd ********
ORIGINAL POSTER@Tod ********
Okay, I'll give it a shot. I'm going to wherever the main office is in BKK..Tod *********
umm news flash
IF you entered the country on a tourist visa (or a visa exempt entry) you go to the new(ish) immigration office out at Muang Thong Thani at this location
This building
@To**
; no you're not going to the main Immigration office in Bangkok :O (meaning you do not go to the immigration office out at Chaengwattana Gov't Complex ) :( IF you entered the country on a tourist visa (or a visa exempt entry) you go to the new(ish) immigration office out at Muang Thong Thani at this location
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Todd ********
ORIGINAL POSTER@Tod ********
Haha....thank you Tod! I really appreciate this FB group and all your responses Reply to
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Matthew *********
Without using agent and all done by myself paying the 1900 each time
Carlo **********
Can you just keep doing this?
Tod *********
@Carlo *********
the 60 day covid extension program runs out on the 30th of March. SO you have until then to apply for a new 60 day extension. Matthew *********
ive left Thailand last week I’m back home now I’ll come back once quanatine is over I have a home in Bangkok
Carlo **********
@Matthew ********
What visa do you have?Reply to
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Matthew *********
It just depends on the immigration office
Tod *********
@Matthew ********
that is not correct at allReply to
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Matthew *********
I extended my TR 5 times before I left Bankok just last week
Bobby ********
Matthew Swinney. You'd have been better off getting the covid extensions. Same price, twice the time. 60 days
Matthew *********
I was doing 30s because I did two 60s last year and they would do 60s no longer just 30s it’s madness there is consistency between officers or Provence
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Michael ********
@Matthew ********
30 day extensions ?Matthew *********
@Michael *******
yes Michael ********
@Matthew ********
interesting though unable to travel due to covid would have been more cost effective.Reply to
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Matthew *********
Like I said they don’t look that closely just take in all the right forms paid the 1900
Matthew *********
I just kept pushing the no commercial flight excuse
Todd ********
ORIGINAL POSTER@Matthew ********
interesting. "No commercial flights" to where...? Are you American?Matthew *********
Australian
Todd ********
ORIGINAL POSTER@Matthew ********
okay. I think in the case of Australia, there really are few to none flights, so your situation seems reasonable. I mean, you needed extensionsReply to
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Todd ********
ORIGINAL POSTER@Matthew ********
Really?Matthew *********
@Todd *******
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Chaz ************
At the moment he is getting multiple extensions due to Covid but this may stop without warning at any time.
Tod *********
he's confused and visa terminology isn't his strong suit either :P
IF he was legally working here and stopped the ONLY option to him was NOT a tourist visa (you can't get a tourist visa INSIDE of thailand you buy them from thai consulates in other countries before you wing your way here)
IF your friend got a 30 day extension after he cancelled his extension based on employment, he got that with an embassy letter saying he couldn't travel out because of covid,
What they issue now is a 60 day "covid extension" at the immigration office and you can get that until the 30th of March (when the order allowing it expires)
IF he was legally working here and stopped the ONLY option to him was NOT a tourist visa (you can't get a tourist visa INSIDE of thailand you buy them from thai consulates in other countries before you wing your way here)
IF your friend got a 30 day extension after he cancelled his extension based on employment, he got that with an embassy letter saying he couldn't travel out because of covid,
What they issue now is a 60 day "covid extension" at the immigration office and you can get that until the 30th of March (when the order allowing it expires)
Tod *********
post the images of his extension stamps. The 30 day "embassy extension" stamp will have a 2.28 written somewhere on it (meaning clause 2.28 in the immigration rules)
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the 60 day covid extensions have either just a number 5 or ข้อ5 written on it (meaning clause 5 in the immigration rules)
Sounds to me like he doesn't know shit from Shinola about visas/extensions OR the stamps he's here on and just bragging to hear himself talk :P
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the 60 day covid extensions have either just a number 5 or ข้อ5 written on it (meaning clause 5 in the immigration rules)
Sounds to me like he doesn't know shit from Shinola about visas/extensions OR the stamps he's here on and just bragging to hear himself talk :P
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Jill ******
You can do 30 day extension. After this if it is still available you can apply for a 60 day COVID extension
Michael ********
Ask to see his passport methinks they is talking bull
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