Can Phuket Immigration cancel a DTV visa and subsequently issue a Non Immigrant O visa (retirement)?

it seems like, along with DTV Extensions, local Thai Immigration Offices just don't want to deal with DTV's, as, technically, there is a provision to Convert (Change of Visa Type) from DTV to another type of Visa

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I asked the same thing at the immigration office in Bangkok out at Chaengwattana Section J (where they do DTV extensions) and they said the same answer. They cannot cancel a visa as those are issued by the embassies/consulates thru the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office.

You could try to contact the MFA office in Bangkok OR the embassy you got the visa from.

Believe it or not I was told that if you get the MFA/Embassy to cancel the visa and you're IN thailand you're allowed to stay until the 180 day entry stamp you have runs out. They told me that cancelling the visa doesn't negate your admitted until stamp, 😮 just means you can't use the visa to enter again. 🙂

Best of luck with it

This was a question I did not know the answer to so I consulted with one of the Phuket Immigration Volunteers (

@Stuart ********

).

He said that they do NOT cancel DTV's at the Phuket Immigration office 😮

Instead you contact the embassy/consulate you got the DTV thru and they cancel it in the system.

Then you do one of two things;

either exit/re-enter to come in free stamp and apply for the 90 day Non-O thru the immigration office from that

OR

exit and buy a 90 day Non-O visa from a thai consulate in a nearby country thru the online eVisa portal then come in on the 90 day stamp from the Non-O.

Thanx Stuart for the info..