Can you extend a 60+30 day tourist visa at immigration offices in Thailand?

@Wylie ******

who knows for sure post covid

@Michael *******

I'm pretty sure when I applied for and got my 6 month METV pre covid it didn't say anything about the 30 day extensions you get on the 60 day entry stamps, or the fact that if you time your border bounce correctly you can stretch that 6 months close to 9 months. That knowledge i had to get from forums like this.

Its certainly possible they won't give the 30 day extension stamp, but I think people are reading too much into their omission of specifically stating it.

From the looks of it it is just a regular single entry tourist visa, not some kind of special or new visa. So I would assume the extension is still available.

@Wylie ******

assumption is the mother of fuck ups lol was taught that when i was a apprentice

@Michael *******

haha. Correct, but I have also always hated that statement. I'm simply looking at the information available. The absence of specifically saying you can do something is not the same as saying you can't. We're both assuming what that means. I was just pointing out that there does not appear to be a definitive answer, so people should be careful stating you cannot extend it as fact.

@Wylie ******

just checked all the major embassy site and canberra specifically says can extend 30 days

@Michael *******

that's good news. The other thing I've seen people debate about was whether you can convert from this to another Visa in country. I assumed, there i go again😄, that if you could convert the regular SETV previously then you would still be able to.

@Wylie ******

, no, that is the big change in them opening back up applications for the regular 60 day tourist visa. It is restricted in converting to any other visa extension. This is what is new. No converting after you are in Thailand.

@Kool ******

do you have any link to anything official that states that? Changing that makes zero sense.

I do know not everything they do makes sense, but all I've seen so far is a few people commenting that one can't change to another form of visa. Most people don't even realize there are multiple types of visas for the same thing (retirement, marriage, etc). One type you can get in country and the other type is done outside Thailand. Even though the reason, like marriage, is exactly the same. They also have different requirements, lengths of stay, etc.

@Wylie ******

, I can't find the link right now, but it was specific about not changing it in Thailand.

@Wylie ******

they specifically mentioned with the long stay visa STV that was not going to be possible to convert. Here I was thinking during this time when immigration not doing so much they could have cleared up everything.

The reason i looked at canberra was when i came in July was not possible to get normal 1 year marriage visa outside country and everywhere in the world was giving 3 months except Canberra which was issuing 1 year visas

@Bobby *******

yes i was thinking longstay visa whatever that ones called. To many things now

@Nigel ****************

. You will need the STV if you want six months. The TR is only 60+30 days

@Nigel ****************

i dont think uk is on list yet