How can I extend my tourist visa by 30 days in Bangkok?

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Sep 21, 2020

4 years ago

Gabriela ********

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Hello everyone, for those of you who are currently under the tourist visa and want to extend your visa for 30 days in Bangkok. Please don’t go to the regular immigration office but to the temporary visa center to extend your visa. Make sure to bring and print the letter from your ambassy, the e mail showing that the embassy sent you this letter, a picture and copies from the first page and entry stamps into the country. If you have all tus documents it shouldn’t take you more than one hour. The cost for the extension is 1900 bath. 

Good luck!

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TLDR : Answer Summary

To extend your tourist visa for 30 days in Bangkok, visit the temporary visa center instead of the regular immigration office. Required documents include a printed letter from your embassy, an email confirmation of the letter from the embassy, a passport photo, and copies of the passport's first page and entry stamps. The extension fee is 1900 baht and should take about one hour if you have all necessary documents. Note that appointments for extensions may be fully booked, so you might need to show up without one. Proof of accommodation is generally not required.

Gregor **********

please allow me to put facts right . . . . . . because even the Immigration of Thailand is using the wrong wording

Nobody does "renew a visa". Nobody does "extend a visa"

Those foreigners already in the country on amnesty ALL are here on already EXPIRED Tourist Visa.

Immigration cannot and never did "renew" any visa.

The only thing Immigration did in the past and still does, is EXTENDING a permit of stay, by a stamp in the passport.

A “visa” is a sticker one received abroad on any Thai Embassy or Consulate. A “visa” allows to enter a country. Then one is stamped an “admitted stay” according to that visa class.

An “admitted until" stamp is NOT a “visa”. It is a “permit of stay”. And any extension given there from is an “extension of stay permit” and is NOT a "renewed visa" . . . .The little handwritten note on the right upper corner of the “admitted until” stamp, that sometimes reads “Non-O” or “Non-RE” or “TV”- it only tells the Immigration officer, out of which visa class the first “permit of stay” i.e. the entry, was originally stamped

4 years ago

Gabriela ********

ORIGINAL POSTER

I was asked to come back on the 07th of October any ideas why??

4 years ago

Gabriela ********

ORIGINAL POSTER

No, they just asked and checked your address and ask for your phone number.

4 years ago

Assaf ********

do they ask for any proof for the accomodation? (in bangkok)

@Gabriela *******

4 years ago

Tod *********

Usually no, BUT they can if they think you don't live or stay in Bangkok..

4 years ago

Assaf ********

@Tod ********

thank you!

4 years ago

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Assaf ********

Tod *********

AND remember that the online appointment booking for people who entered the country on a 60 day tourist visa entry is totally booked up for this week. All you can do is show up and see if they will let you get the extension without a booked appointment.

4 years ago

Gabriela ********

ORIGINAL POSTER

I didn't have any appointments but things were really fast, there were only 10 people with me, so i guess people can just show up and go straight to the 3th floor. You can make copies and pictures in the building

4 years ago

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Gabriela ********

James ********

Thank you for the reminder 😊

4 years ago

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James ********

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