I have my 1st Retirement Visa and it takes up a ungodly amount of pages... if this happens every year i am screwed because my passport does not have that many pages.
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The number of pages taken up by a Retirement Visa in Thailand can vary. Typically, the initial visa and the extension together can take around two to three pages of a passport. For example, an e-visa may require less space (around half a page), while a regular in-country visa could take up one full page. After obtaining the Retirement Visa, subsequent renewals may only require half a page each time. It's advisable to have a plan for renewing your passport if you are concerned about page limits.
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And it seems like this post went right off the rails (as I thought it might ๐ )
Thanx one and all for the contributions
We wish good luck to the O/P like
Santos ********
2 pages. I had to have my passport renewed after that!
Peter **********
For me, a quarter page for the non o e-visa stamp plus half page for the 1 year extension
Tod *********
And just so people know, THIS is what it looks like to go from a free entry/tourist visa entry stamp to a Non-O visa, that usually takes TWO pages (dunno why offices stamp that 90 day Non-O admitted until stamp on it's own page)
Tod *********
this is another 'conversion' to an in country Non-O visa then a year extension AND a re-entry permit. in this case the office put that 90 day Non-O stamp sideways on the page with the Non-O visa (meaning that Non-O visa took up one page AND then the year extension w/re-entry permit took up another <- good page utilization by immmigrations ๐ (y)
Tod *********
One thing I was point out on the above set of stamps
ALL the dates are the same date, the Non-O issue date, the year extension issue date, and the re-entry issue date (all the stamps are dated Mar 6th as an issue date)
This cannot be done "in real life" <- by you pushing your own paper, ๐ฎ
It can ONLY be done with an agent ๐
In "real life"; you APPLY for the initial 90 day Non-O, wait 2 weeks, go back get it inked in, wait about 2 months then go apply for the year retirement extension, and then buy the re-entry permit, the issue date on the stamps would be 'spread out' (especially the Non-O and year extension ๐ )
ANY immigration officer in the country looking at these stamps know they are "agent gotten" (by 'alternate means' ๐ )
sorry about that explanation, ๐
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John **********
Are you referring to a visa or an extension of stay? Initial visa is maybe 1.5 pages, extension of stay 0.5 pages
Rob *******
After you get it, renew your passport then transfer the extension stamp to the new passport. No big deal!
They are talking about the initial conversion from a free stamp/tourist visa to first a 90 day Non-O visa and then a year extension (w/re-entry permit) and that's usually three pages.
hardly took up an 'ungodly amount of pages' ๐ I sense some hyperbole ๐
to go from a free stamp to 90 day Non-O and then a year extension usually takes THREE total pages, the Non-O visa, the 90 day stamp FROM the Non-O (which some offices put on it's own page) and then a half page for the year extension.
Now that you have an extension just getting a new one only takes a half page stamp for the year extension and then another half page stamp for the re-entry permit (if they orient it side ways on the same page as your extension
Derek **********
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4 pages is alot when your passport only has 28 pages.
well IF you didn't let this last one lapse <- (meaning you'd start all over from zero ๐ฎ ) and are just applying for a new year extension it's a half page
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Lloyd ********
Evisa, no pages, half page stamp. In country visa, one page. Extension half a page.
LOL, serious? Do you think no-one else can know the answer? Do you think retirement visas/extensions are a different size/shape to the rest? Very rude!
you're really asking people "how much space does a 'yearly extension of stay' take up?', <- that isn't a "retirement visa", it isn't a visa at all, it's exactly what the stamp in your passport says, a yearly extension of stay
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