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How do I manage my Thai DTV visa when renewing my passport?

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Mar 14, 2025
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Sidney ********
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If I get DTV, than later on, I renew my passport, how do I secure the value of Visa if it's tied to the original passport number?
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When you renew your passport after obtaining a Digital Tourist Visa (DTV), you can secure the value of your visa by carrying both your old and new passports. Visas are now issued electronically as PDFs; during entry or exit, present both the passport number from the old passport and the eVisa printout along with your new passport.
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Steve *******
Search the group and you'll find that you carry both passports on you until the visa expires.

And keep your bad attitude elsewhere, Greg was literally just trying to help you learn how to use the group.
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Tod *********
all visas are now online eVisas that are sent to you via email and you print a PDF file (that is your visa)

You just show a copy of the data page of the old passport, the your new passport with the DTV print out when you enter/exit
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@Tod ********
 Hopefully you don't have to show a copy of the data page of the old passport for each entry, just the first one?
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@Paul ******
 almost certainly you’ll need to show a copy of your original passport - or even that original passport - for the next 5 years on entry. The visa can’t be “transferred”.
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@Stuart ********
 I see. I just find it strange that this is insisted upon for an e-visa too. For a standard visa sticker, yes, I've done it before several times.
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@Paul ******
 every entry, because that's the passport number on the PDF file so print a copy and staple it to the print out of the visa
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@Tod ********
 Wow. So if you forget to do that, despite being an e-visa, you could be denied entry? Glad I still have a visa sticker - I just carry both passports, but really, with an e-visa they should just allow you to update your passport number online or something.
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Sidney ********
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@Paul ******
 thats why i ask ha. My passport has some damage so i want to get new one to prevent any issues
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@Paul ******
 each one, or just carry both passports
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Greg ********
Search the group. Been asked and answered many times
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Sidney ********
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@Greg *******
 i didn’t have time to scroll and read all the comments. Im really sorry, hope you forgive me 🥸
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Greg ********
@Sidney *******
 Not to worry it is understandable. You are American.
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@Greg *******
 Talk about an over reaction…..
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@Sidney *******
 Quicker to use the “search” function than to submit a new post…
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Sidney ********
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@Expat *********
 well there was alot of good feedback from others that did not know about the topic I talk about. So my post did make it's benefit for others. I'm most certainly sorry that you did no like post. I hope one day you wake up and forgive me for making the absolute worst possible post in Facebook history about visa in Thailand for foreigners trying to go to Thailand on dtv with all the goood information needed so the know how to enter on destination Thailand visa using a changed passport number from their original one and also would like to give you a cookie if you were able to read this entire sentence with out stopping or taking a breath of air because of my really long sentence I made to your reply. :)
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@Sidney *******
 Go to bed . You must have had a hard day. 🤭🤭
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@Troy ******
 daddy, this man making fun of me
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