Is my ED Visa still active after switching to COVID extensions, and what are the implications of canceling it?

you will have to get documentation from the school you attended for the ED visa stating you STOPPED studying on xxx date. Then you go to your immigration office and cancel that extension (even though you're on covid extension now

Just letting an ED visa extension run out does NOT cancel it and you aren't gonna get an elite visa until you do cancel it.

SO contact the school you got the ED visa/extension from get the termination of study papers from them GO to the immigration ofice that issued the last ED extension and cancel it. Be prepared to pay a fine for failing to cancel an extension officially before switching to another type.

Gil *****

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Thanks. I do have the letter and I guess I'll try and do it the same day I have an appointment to get the elite affixed then. Thank you.

Tod *********

(y) In Bangkok you do BOTH the cancellation of extension AND getting the elite visa sticker stuck on and getting hyour new year stamp at the Counter N 🙂

You shouldn't have any issues getting it done, you're far from the first foreigner who didn't cancel their extension correctly

Good luck with it, take care

Gil *****

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Thanks Todd but they specifically told me I have to cancel the non-ed where I received it which is Chonburi and that Chaeng Wattana wouldn't cancel it or could refuse if it isn't. So still possible, just a hassle.

Tod *********

ahh, yep you need to do it at the office where you got the extension, 😕

Sorry about that, got some traveling to do it looks like

Gil *****

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Yeah I have letter from the school and live in Chonburi so I was mainly wondering if I needed to cancel it which you answered and if I have to do it the same day or I can do it at anytime and still remain in the country until my Elite Visa is affixed.

Tod *********

you're not on an ED extension any more you're on a covid one from what you say

AND

as far as if you cancel your old ED extension will it also cancel your current covid extension <- meaning you need to get to bangkok THAT day to switch over to the Elite, I dunno (you need to be talking to your immigration office)

AND you need to be coordinating this WITH elite so when you do get it cancelled you can get up to bangkok and get the elite sticker stuck in.

OR

Are they going to do it in Chonburi for you?

Gil *****

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They haven't been that helpful so far and have given me some conflicting information at times which is why I thought I would ask the experts here. No, they won't do it Chonburi.

Tod *********

guess you'll find out what happens when you show up at Jomtien to get that extension cancelled 😕 No telling how it will work, BUT get in touch with Elite because IF cancelling that ED extension cancels your current covid extension too, you would have to get the elite sticker stuck in the same day (you can't get an elite on overstay)

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Tod *********

James ********

You do have a possible problem.

Did you obtain any extension of stay of your Ed Visa? Meaning beyond the initial 90 days of the Ed Visa?

Did you not get an Ed Visa extension of 90 days? And obtained a COVID ectension after the first 90 days of the Ed Visa ?

Gil *****

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@James *******

If I didn't ever extend the Ed Visa, does that make a difference in regards to having to cancel it?

James ********

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