Can you transfer a one-year student visa to a new passport if the old passport is expiring?

Sep 27, 2022
2 years ago
Glenda *******
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If a passport is expiring can you transfer your one year student visa to the new passport?
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If your passport is expired and you have a one-year student visa (Non-ED visa) issued from a Thai consulate, it cannot be transferred to a new passport. However, if you have an extension of stay based on education obtained from an immigration office in Thailand, you can transfer the extension stamp to your new passport. You must take both the old and new passports along with the embassy letter to the immigration office where the extension was issued to complete the transfer.
Tod *********
and seeing as the O/P has not weighed back in as far as whether she's on an extension of stay or really has a year-long, multi-entry VISA from a thai consulate, I will close this post
@Glenda ******
message me if you want it re-opened ๐Ÿ™‚
Michael ********
Just carry both passports until the visa expires. A visa is still valid in an expired passport, but can't be transferred. Then when you get an extension of stay, you can get it inked into the new passport.
Tod *********
If you have a one year Non-ED VISA <- that you got from a thai consulate in your country before you came here, the kind where you exit/re-enter the country every 90 days, the answer is NO, it cannot be transferred

On the other hand if you're just using wrong terminology and you actually have a one year "extension of stay" that you got from the immigration office inside thailand based on education, the answer is YES< you can get the stamps transferred.

You take your old and new passport along with the letter that your embassy gave you when you got the new passport, go to the immigration office that issued that extension and they'll move the extension stamp from the old passport to the new one

NOTE: you HAVE to go to the office where the year extension was issued to move the stamps.

As a rule if you renew a passport inside the country MOST embassies give a letter addressed to immigrations saying you got a new passport and to please move the stamps, so you need that letter too when you go to the immigration office
Tod *********
read the stamp in your passport and see if it says "extension of stay permitted until" and has a date on it, if it does you don't have ANY visa, but an extension of stay and you can get the stamps moved no issues
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