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Can I renew my Type O marriage visa for another 90 days after leaving Thailand and re-entering?

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Sep 1, 2023
a year ago
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If I get a typ O marriage visa for 90 days when I renew can I get another 90 days after leaving the country and returning? I am in the US married to a Thai. Should I get a multiple entry or just buy a re-entry permit?
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A Type O marriage visa provides an initial stay of 90 days. Upon leaving Thailand, you can extend your stay for another 90 days if you hold a multiple entry non-immigrant O visa. A single entry visa does not allow for another entry after 90 days without a re-entry permit and cannot be renewed for another 90 days while inside Thailand.
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 You want to get 5.5 months out of a visa? You could apply for the multi entry tourist visa in your home country. It gives you 60 days stay permit on each entry, which can be extended once on immigration for 1900.- THB for 30 more days. So in order to get 5.5 months, you would enter, extend once and do one border run and extend again: 60+30+60+30 = 180 days (6 months)
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Kool *******
With a multi-entry Type O you get 90 days everytime you enter, for the one year it is usually valid for. With the single entry type O any re-entry permit would only be good until the 90 days ran out, and you can't get another one under the same reason inside Thailand. You can just get the 1 year extension, then a re-entry permit is good to get with it too.
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Incognia **********
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 that multi entry is it possible to extend inside Thailand after we entered
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Nongnuch ********
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 a multi entry Non-Imm-O visa cannot be extended inside Thailand. In order to activate another 90 days stay permit, you will need to exit and re-enter
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Incognia **********
@Nongnuch *******
 Kool Breez then wrong
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Nongnuch ********
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@Kool ******
 meant the 6-months multi entry Tourist visa, according to his information (the METV) He missed that you are on a multi entry Non-Imm-O family visa
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 you can extend each entry by 30 days for bt1900, but you can only extend each entry just once. After the 90 total you must leave, and re-enter the country. As a side note you can only get the METV in your home country.
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Steve *******
The single entry non imm O will only give you 90 days, you'll need multiple entry non imm O to leave and return to get a further 90 days or another single entry. You can extend your single entry for 60 days or one year in Country but you'll then need a re-entry permit to leave and return on the same extention.
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John **********
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 think he'll only get that 60 day extension if his wife is also here
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Steve *******
John StannersThat's exactly right and it goes for the 1 year extention also but he doesn't mention that his wife won't be with him.
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Nongnuch ********
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 "You can extend your single entry for 60 days" . . . . . . . . that's NOT exactly true. He cannot extend his "90 days single entry Non-imm-O visa". He will have to apply for the "60 days extension of the stay permit with reason family visit". For this he needs his wife accompanying, and among a few other things a freshly printed Thai "Kor Ror 2" marriage certificate
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 He could also apply to extend it by 1 year if he meets the criteria
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Nongnuch ********
the sad truth is, Thai Immigration doesn't draw a difference between a visa and a stay permit, regardless these are two technically different things. Thai Immigration gabbles about "visa extensions" when they actually only extend stay permits after the visa has long ago become invalid
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Nongnuch ********
@Steve ******
 “He could also apply to extend it by 1 year if he meets the criteria”

If you mean the visa by using the word “it”, you are technically in the wrong

I am going to say it AGAIN and you should READ carefully, so you maybe understand the true meaning.

He cannot extend a "90 days single entry Non-Imm-O visa" by 1 year

You cannot extend a visa at all.

He can only apply for the "one year extension of the stay permit" - based on being married to a Thai wife.

You cannot extend a “visa”, and you cannot extend a single entry 90 day visa, because a single entry visa becomes invalid by the moment he enters Thailand

He can only extend the 90-days stay permit he has been stamped in, by fulfilling the criteria. This is the only point where you are correct
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Nongnuch ********
@Steve ******
 I am going to say it AGAIN and you should READ carefully, so you maybe understand the true meaning.

He cannot extend a "90 days single entry Non-Imm-O visa" for 60 more days.

You cannot extend a visa at all.

He can only apply for the "60 days extension of the stay permit with reason family visit"

You cannot extend a “visa”, and you cannot extend a single entry 90 day visa, because a single entry visa becomes invalid by the moment he enters Thailand

He can only extend the stay permit he has been stamped in for 90 days, by changing the reason from “married to a Thai wife” to the reason “visiting family member or spouse”
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 He could extend the 90 days non imm O entry by 60 days if he meets the criteria for the extention of stay.
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Steve *******
@Nongnuch *******
 It is true! He can extend for 60 days if he meets the criteria. It's an option for him!
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Ken *******
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 my wife will be with me but my marriage is US based. I'm trying to get 5.5 months then going home.
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