Can I use my old visa when returning to Thailand with a new passport?

Visa Transfer Passport Renewal Re-Entry Permit Thailand Immigration Visa Regulations

Mar 25, 2023

2 years ago

ORIGINAL POSTER

I have one year visa, expire Jan 22 2024 with reentry permit.

I will travel to Europe and return nov 2023.

I need to renew my passport, valid to jan 24, 2024.

When I reurn to Thailand in nov with the new passport, can I use the visa stamp in the old passport to enter and make the visa transfer to new passport in Thailand?

Or do I have to transfer the visa in a Thai embassy in europe?

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TLDR : Answer Summary

The user, who has a one-year visa expiring on January 22, 2024, inquires about re-entering Thailand with a new passport after traveling to Europe. Answers suggest that the user should travel with both the old and new passports to use the current visa stamp for entry and then apply for a visa transfer within Thailand. Additionally, there are recommendations to consider renewing the passport before departure for simplicity.

Robert *******

I guess you have a big stamp in your passport with in line 2 the text "Extension of Stay permitted up to

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/2024.

Buy a Single Re-Entry Permit at your local Immigration office, cost 1.000 Thb, leave to Europe, apply for the new passport, come back using BOTH passports, get a new entry stamp Admitted until

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/2024 in your new passport.

And apply for a new Extension of Stay by handing over both passports, your idea is good, simple and can be done without any problems.

2 years ago

Steve ********

Do you have a visa or an extension of stay?

2 years ago

Steve ********

@Bo *******

Yep sticker can't be transferred. Carry both passports until you get an extension inside Thailand. Then you're sweet

2 years ago

Steve ********

@Bo *******

So that's the sticker in your passport?

2 years ago

Bo ********

ORIGINAL POSTER

@Steve *******

yes

2 years ago

Ellie *******

@Bo *******

, if your valid visa is the sticker from the Thai embassy/consulate in another country, you cannot transfer that visa sticker.

Doesn’t matter where you apply for new passport.

You need to keep both of old and new passports to enter on that visa.

2 years ago

Robert *******

@Ellie ******

Also in Sweden the application is done on line sinds 1 jun 2021. He can not have a visa sticker glued in his passport

2 years ago

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Robert *******

Bo ********

ORIGINAL POSTER

@Steve *******

have one year visa.

2 years ago

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Bo ********

James ********

SUGGEST you get a NEW passport NOW before you leave Thailand to go to your home country of Sweden. IF that is practical based on your travel plans.

That keeps it simple.

As you indicate you plan on leaving at sometime and returning to Thailand in November 2023.

And your next renewal of your extension of stay is in January 2024

Be sure to get a re-entry permit before you leave Thailand to keep your current extension of stay as retired valid.

2 years ago

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James ********

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