Can I stay in Thailand for 60 days with a tourist visa after entering visa-exempt for 30 days?

@Jolene **************

It seems you received a multi entry 6-months Tourist Visa (METV)

It is valid for use for unlimited entries into Thailand, for 6 months starting from the date of its issue, which was June 24th, 2024

The visa validity expires on December 23, 2024

You intend to enter Thailand on a 30-days visa-exempt entry? You cannot.

The Immigration officer at the border will see your METV on the computer, and he will insist you stamp in on the METV. This is not a “I grant my wish” show.

Every travel plan from thereon relies on how you use the METV. It will get you stamped in on every entry for a 60-days stay permit. These 60 days can be extended once, for 1900.- THB on Immigration, with 30 more days.

Before the 60 days stay permit or the 30 days extension expires, you will need to leave Thailand. And activate another 60-days stay permit upon your next entry. If you re-enter Thailand on December 22, 2024, you will get stamped in for 60 days for the last time. This will get you a stay permit until February 21st, 2025

Only the Americans would write dates as monthly/day/year. Instead of normal countries who write day/month/year, but then the Americans have to be different than the rest of the world.

Nop

Sounds like you have to use the visa before 23 Dec but it's only for 60 days from the date you arrive. I imagine you had to upload flight details before it was approved? As mentioned above extend for 30 days later

This is an interresting question for me😉

As I will apply for non-O retierment visa around 20. july.

My flight arrive 25.september in BKK.

This should mean that the 1 year extention must be done before 25.desember.

However,I would most likely be best off using income certificat from 1.january/25.

If I could get 2 or 3 weeks on Visa exempt before using the retierment visa it would make things a lot easier I think. Although I already have stayed total of 46 days on 2 visa exempt entries this year.

(reason for not waiting til 1.august to apply for the non-O retierment visa is that I want to be sure I got a Visa before cancelling the lease on my apartment.)

You definitely didn’t get visa expiring 23.12.2024. If you got tourist visa you need to use it ( enter Thailand) within 90 days from issue so by ~23.09.

If you have it by 23.12. that’s multi entry visa and you can use it multiple times as much as you wan with last entry being 23.12.

Still may stay per entry is 60 days + eventually extension

Its the opposite. First 60 days with a 30 day extension costing 1,900 Thb.

If it's an EVisa, it will automatically pop up and be activated as soon as your passport is scanned, not sure if immigration will allow you to keep it for next time, I would ask the question before hopping on the plane

I don’t think that is correct. ( what you ask in your post) You can only use the visa when you enter. If you want to get three months then enter on the visa and then before the 2 month period ends you pay 1900 baht at the immigration office to extend by 30 days.

If you enter visa exempt then in order to use your visa after 30 days you would need to leave Thailand and re enter on the visa. This will cost you more time and money than entering on visa then extending.

You can enter visa exempt for 30 days and then to activate the 60 day visa, you must leave the country and reenter to be admitted with that visa.

Look at the visa and check what it says. If you have one dated until that date it sounds as though you have a multiple entry tourist visa, not a single entry one.