How can I validate my 60-day Thai visa after receiving a 30-day stamp at the airport?

@Micheal *******

correct information ,,everyone else is talking rubbish

@Richard ******

They will have you waiting but will come ?

@Brian ******

ah OK, a standard 30 day extension to a tourist or excempt stamp is possible now, but if your planned stay is over 60 days, then you need to bounce out/in to get a new visa beyond the 60 days stay, but you can then utilise the unused 60 day tourist visa. It's 'potluck' whether a local immigration office will amend that 30 day exempt stamp to a 60 day tourist stamp, but the majority of cases have had to return to point of entry to get that amended, which is a ball ache if you're swinging in a hammock on koh Lipe, having arrived in Bangkok. 'All depends on the immigration officer on the day'.

@Dan *******

Hey, thank you man. I've had it so easy in Costa Rica(180 and extension with an easy border cross) that this mess is confusing. I appreciate the info.

@Brian ******

lol. Well everything is down to the immigration officer that you face. Literally 'at their discretion' - some people posting that they managed to get this amended at their local/regional immigration office, where others have had to travel 800 miles back to their port of entry to get it amended. So always dress well, and don't be a dick. Every rule of entry or denied entry can be overlooked by one officer, and played by another, often based on whether you have used/paid an agent to facilitate.

@Richard ******

Ahh so the plot thickens.

You never handed your printed off e-visa to the IO.

@Henrik *************

Sure. But it might have been “used” at that entry. Exactly my point. It might have been used - and likely so when it was handed over to the IO. Then the IO probably just used the stamp for visa exemption (30 days) instead of the 60 day stamp by mistake.

@Frank-Steven **********

he didn't have it printed out from how I understand his comments so I say it's more likely that it hasn't been used yet.

But it was only valid until 13th June or something so in his case it wouldn't really help him anyway, he should get back to immigration at the airport to have it corrected there.

@Richard ******

Is that New Zealand?

@Henrik *************

Dang, learn something new everyday. I’ll be visiting Thailand next yr so I’m definitely soaking it n as much info as I can. 30-60 days probably

@Russell ******

by then the Visa exempt entry will most likely be 60 days.

@Russell ******

Beware, you need to make sure you enter the second time within the visa validity. On a tourist visa, that's usually within 90 days of visa issue, not from the entry date.

@Stan **********

If you have a tourist visa they should change it to reflect the visa. I had this happen to a friend last month at Phuket Intl and he went back and in 20 minutes it was updated.

@Richard ******

How did you fare in the end?