Is it possible to renew a Covid visa in Thailand after overstaying due to illness?

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

I do not need sources, as Thailand laws are contextual and money driven. There is a lot of corruption and bribery in the medical field, including during Covid with Hotel/Hospital staff/authority, taking each their cuts for having many foreigners "forcefully" in 10 days isolation in hospital. This is one of the many scheme that you can get caught into if you are not careful. I've been living here since 2010, I was naive like you at the beginning (I'm guessing that you've been here only for a few years), but I've changed my thought process many years ago and accepted to play the "game" the Thai way. What you mention as "nurse visiting you for medication", etc, is part of the scheme to up-charge you with hidden fees.

@Maxim **********

You don’t provide any sources to your claims. I in turn will give you an additional, more reputable one. Long story short: Yes … home isolation is possible now. IF IF IF the authorities (and doctors) decide one is eligible for it and meets the requirements - I.e. milder symptoms AND a suitable “home” to isolate in. Even in home isolation they will regularly check and you and provide you with medication and food. What you are not allowed to is just shut up about it and quietly crawl into an hotel room or similar. That is the law. Though I am sure quite some people risk that given a rather slim likelihood of being caught. That is everyone’s individual choice. Just don’t spread unsupported false information.

@Helen ************

The only thing that truly suck is the overstay fine that is piling up by 1k baht each passing day (you + husband). You are from Myanmar, correct? What's going on in your country is a lot more stressful then the worse that could happen to you being on overstay here in Thailand. Some people are making it look like a lot more dramatic then it is.

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

No, you do not have to tell anyone nor ask a doctor if you can stay home, this is part of the scam. I have help many people avoid paying tens of thousands of Thai baht by telling them to stand their ground went Hotel and Hospital try to "force" them to go to the hospital. There are many organism/lawyer that help people every day avoiding such scam. Also, "The Thaiger" are not reputable nor trusthworty. They are kinda the laughing stock of foreign media in Thailand.

@Helen ************

Sorry. Wasn’t my intend to scare you or anyone. Just wanted to challenge what Maxim commented before (about being allowed to ride covid out without reporting that to officials), which I believe is not correct.

@Kool ******

You do not get arrested at immigration while trying to extend your expired visa. This is not their job.

The major way that people get caught is thought check-point, which is rare. Cops asked for my passport once in the last five years, and it was while taking the bus to Mukdahan border pre-covid. They are more worry about people that look like Cambodian or Myanmar people.

@Helen ************

as soon as you discovered you had covid you should have contacted the hospital, before your extension expires. They would have helped you. Now that your extension has expired the best you will get is a stamp saying you have 7 days to leave the country, if they do not arrest you all. From the sound of it you have no documentation to prove you had covid. Immigration takes being on overstay very serious unless you get caught on your way to fly out at the airport. Then you just pay your fine and get an overstay stamp, unless it is more than 90 days overstay. If you get caught anyplace other than on your way to the airport to fly out you will be arrested and deported, and banned for 3, or 5 years. I can't remember exactly. Immigration will not renew your covid extension. The best they might do, and it is a very slim chance is give you a 7 days to leave stamp.

@Michelle ***********

Not true, ive extended tourist visa and visa exempt entry while on overstay before.

@Helen ************

you can't renew or extend something you no longer have (it has expired).

@Kool ******

I've extended my visa 30 more days while on overstay before but it was never the Covid extension. You know people who got denied the extension due to overstay?

Garrett Greenwald. I forgive you 😆

@Bobby *******

Sorry didn't see it was 2 people.