Is it okay to leave Thailand on the day after my 60-day visa expires?

If people haven't ever overstayed, which I did three times, although two times were only by 1&2 days. The other time was 3 days and that was because I'd put my passport with all required documents into the Nigerian Embassy, off Sukhumvit to process a visa and work permit. I submitted this application on a Thursday and before I submitted my passport I told them I need it back by at the latest the following Monday. They said I could pick it up on the Monday morning. When I went back on the Monday, there was a notice on the gate of the Embassy, saying this Embassy is closed until Thursday for the King of Thailand birthday celebration. So there was me stuck in Bangkok for three days which would of made me overstay 3 days. I went to immigration in Bangkok, explained to a lovely lady IO., what had happened, she made a note of it, gave me her personal card and told me if you have any problem with police or any other officials, get them to call me and I'll put it right for you. She said when you leave you'll have to pay, at the time it was 200 baht a day, so 600 baht. Got my passport hopped on a plane to Udon Thani, straight to Vientiane on the bus, paid the fine and did a border bounce and that was on a visa exempt thirty days entry, when I had the problem. So immigration in Thailand, if you've got a genuine reason for an overstay, as long as it's not an abusively long overstay, they won't or shouldn't hold it against you.

@Michael *****

Well according to your post they told YOU your 30 days allowed in Thailand started in London @Heathrow. If that's not hilarious I don't know what is 🤔

@Graham *****

Hypothetical, not realistic is that enough for you? By the way when I'm in Thailand I don't frequent the sort of places where immigration or the police might visit. Those places are for lonely old farang men 😂😂😂

@John *******

Ok so you can read but cannot understand what the risk is which which is explained on the Overstay Form (number 27 in the list) you sign at some Immigration Offices when you get your extension. "In the case that the alien is apprehended

Overstay for less than one year

forbidden from entering the kingdon for 5 years".

Go on overstay for as little as one day and if you get stopped in a police checkpoint or bar raid and asked to produce your passport (a low risk but still a risk) then the above applies. 5 years blacklisted, simple enough for you?

@Graham *****

I can read moron and I have three experiences of overstay and I used to travel in and out of Thailand tens of dozens of times unlike the touristy, I have retired there experts. By the way, how do you think I post replies if I can't read?

@John *******

so you can't read

@Nicole *********

and BEWARE! - the 7 days start on the date of the application. Unlike the 30 days touristic extension, which you will get issued on top of your current stay permit

@Nicole *********

you are confusing things by a stone throw . . . the 7-days extension actually is no "extension" at all. It is a "denial stamp" that says "application for extension denied, you have 7 days to leave the kingdom". A kind of a grace period. It doesn't make any difference to an actual 30-days touristic extension of the stay permit, as it also costs a fee of 1900.- THB

@Nicole *********

It’s not my post - I’m not looking for an extension.

@John *********

As long as someone knows the rules about overstays, as the questionnaire asked, stating that their visa expired on the 8th and they were flying out on the ninth, the chance of an encounter with an official (police) is about as much a risk as being in a plane crash.

@John *******

probably not much you can do about a plane crash, even if you stop flying you might be hit by debris. An extension on the other hand...

@John *********

Well your plane might crash also. Depending on what sort of person you are, why or how could you get involved with the police. Incidentally when I lived in Udon Thani, I was stopped on a regular basis by the police on roadside checks for driving licences and at the time I had a tatty old British licence that didn't contain a photo. Not once was I ever asked for my passport and one time I was pulled up for speeding between Korat and Khon Kaen by radar. They told me I was doing 140kph and the limit is 90 kph., which to be honest I wasn't aware of. Anyway wasn't asked for either passport or driving licence. Just fined 200baht.

@John *******

there's no real problem with short overstay IF you make it to the airport. The problem comes if you are involved with the police while on overstay, even 1 day, when you will be arrested and deported.

@Robert ********

Blah blah blah! I only make stupid remarks for a reason. Like someone scaremongering to a person asking if their visa expired on the 8th of a month and they were flying out the next day and yours truly starts commenting that they might ban the person for five years. I've had a lot of experience regarding IO's in time gone by, so I know what I'm talking about, including overstays on my part. Unlike a lot of people, I do not comment on anything unless I have experienced the issue. Hope this explains and enlightens you.

@John *******

what a stupid Remark, seriously ?

Who the f would like any Thai prison

@Robert ********

How would you know someone wouldn't like immigration prison so much! Past experience on your behalf then?

@Robert ********

You talk s_ _ _ e

@Sylvia *******

if it is his second visa-exempt entry, he won't have any problems re-entering Thailand. Applying for a tourist visa in a neighbouring country has become more difficult, because some have switched to the E-Visa online system, requiring complicated upload of documents and proofs, and others require an appointment to use hteir facility, and have a long processing time, some for over 1 week!

@Khay ***

if you coming in and out of the country the immigration issue an exemption visa at their discretion. Better you apply for a visa as nay get refused entry

@Khay ***

don't wait till 7th to extend. Do it before that. The 30 days is added to the current exempt entry date.

@Khay ***

you won't receive a 60-days visa on a visa-exempt entry. All they give you is a 60-days stay permit. Which means, if you extend your stay permit (again, you are NOT on a visa!) now for 30 more days, you avoid the overstay (and probable future problems!) and your 30 days extended stay permit just becomes invalid when you exit Thailand