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What are the penalties for overstaying a visa in Thailand?

May 29, 2025
24 days ago
Christopher *********
ORIGINAL POSTER
Hi Guys

Just a question: and no I haven't .

If you overstay your visa ie: 60 day visa ..

and you stay in Thailand what are the penalties.

Please remember: no I haven't overstayed.

I'm just interested to know .
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TLDR : Answer Summary
If you overstay your visa in Thailand, the penalties include a 500 baht fine for each day of overstay, up to a maximum of 20,000 baht. If caught by authorities, you could face severe consequences including detention, court proceedings, deportation, and a potential ban from re-entering Thailand for years. However, if you manage to leave the country and your overstay is less than 24 hours, you won't incur any fines. It's advised to avoid overstaying entirely, as it can negatively affect future visa applications.
Betty *********
500 B a day, but don't do it. It will be flagged on their computer.
Wannikea *********
If you make it to the airport you are fined 500 baht a day max of 20,000 baht. If you are caught, you are caged, courted, deported, and banned for 5 years or more.
Raquel ********
500 baht per day. If only one day they will waive it. 3 days is ok. Anything more that 10 days can get you jailed and deported they do not care what holidays had the place shut down
Bill *******
@Raquel *******
Sorry, no they wont for 1 day. 500 baht and a notation in my passport.
Nongnuch ********
. .when you are in the process of leaving Thailand at the airport, you won't get charged a penalty if your overstay is lesse than 24 hours. The penalty becomes due if your overstay is over 24 hours. Then it will be 500 Baht for every day, the maximum being 20,000 THB
Nongnuch ********
FIRST: you don't "overstay a visa". You technically are overstaying the "stay permit" you got stamped when you entered Thailand, no matter on what kind of visa or visa-exempt. . . . . . . . . . . the overstay rules are as clear as Missisippi mud:
Nate ***********
For Thailand to only want the rich and elderly and it getting to the point to where it's not even guaranteed even if you have a DTV Visa having to bust your rear end to stay here no matter the cost pay or situation or Reason I'm just about ready to go to Cambodia and live there I know it's dangerous very very dangerous there but Thailand still is very dangerous just not as dangerous but if we give tourism to Cambodia eventually it'll become a much nicer place it's little bit too late for most people that are coming here because five years ago it was so much easier even for me on disability being 29 years old to have somehow edged out a loan or something to have gotten me a 5-year visa and possibly even been married by now but it's just getting so arbitrary with the visa laws it's about time we help the rest of Southeast Asia anyway there are other places that are also very beautiful and also places here in Southeast Asia that have ancient cities and artifacts and other things still buried deep in the jungles and hidden just like in South America so the opportunity for people wanting to document and things like that are almost Limitless especially with this side of the world having as much history as it has
Raquel ********
@Nate **********
Da Nang is super cheap and the food is amazing
Nongnuch ********
@Nate **********
can't take your reply for serious, HELP if anyone can
Nate ***********
@Nongnuch *******
it is literally what everyone has been talking about because Thailand is constantly changing its visa laws recently and it's just gearing itself more towards being less welcoming towards foreigners which Thailand has kind of always been like this for the longest. A lot of people are bummed out but that's because again they think because they invested so much into this country but that they didn't think it would all come Crashing Down but in reality this is not their country
Why****
@Nongnuch *******
... I can, quite a few others already have šŸ˜
Paul ********
Does anyone know what happened to the man that over stayed his visa by 26 years, lol it was in the news he was arrested but after that don't know,
Nongnuch ********
@Paul *******
he paid a fine of 20,000 THB and got deported. He definitely got blacklisted for ever coming back to Thailand
Lee *************
You could end up in a detention cell, but then you might not, but up to you
John *********
Never, ever over stay
Brian ********
That is if you report to IB, if you get picked up with an expired visa the penalties are much more severe
Mark ***************************
500 baht for every day overstay I was 6 days cost 3000
Steven *********
@Mark **************************
Makes sense.

You will also have it marked in your passport which isn't good
Nongnuch ********
@Steven ********
only an ugly stamp in his passport, that will be history once he gets issued a new passport. However it got noticed in the Thailand Immigration central computer system
Jeremy ********
It can also be a deterrent to obtaining a long term visa like the elite visa
Todd *********
@Jeremy *******
possibly with Elite. But nothing else.
Jeremy ********
@Todd ********
nobody knows the future

and absolutely no one on gods green earth can forecast Thai immigration requirements

TiT where the unexpected happens especially with the immigration department
Todd *********
@Jeremy *******
or not. No point panicking about whatever could happen. I had multiple overstays and no issue at all with long term visa here
Jeremy ********
@Todd ********
yes that is called the past

I live in the present and look to the future
Todd *********
@Jeremy *******
I live in reality. And that’s the way it is now. If/when it ever changes, we can deal with it then
Jeremy ********
@Todd ********
and reality is in the present which we agree upon

But you quoted the past in your response and never looked to the future

TiT anything and everything can change in the future
Todd *********
@Jeremy *******
all actual experiences are, by their very nature, in the past.

You made inaccurate guesstimates about the future (based on nothing other than TiT) and ignored the past and current situation. Unwise.
Jeremy ********
@Todd ********
The present is reality the past is gone forever and the future is unknown

3 days ago people were opening bank accts on visa exemption stamps/ST Visas and people were prophesying it as the truth..:then one day it all changed and the past doesn’t matter anymore now the reality is you can only open it with a LT visa

So things change fast in Thailand

But relics like you live in the past as it was prophesied in the before time
Todd *********
@Jeremy *******
lol. Ohhh- ur a newbie. Much to learn grasshopper.

ā€˜Things change so fast in Thailandā€™šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ ok champ
Jeremy ********
@Todd ********
you live in the past so you’re the newbie not me

I live in the present and future like I have said since the beginning

Plus I put holes in your comment by showing a current event that shatters your past narrative

But please tell me how im the newbie..
Todd *********
@Jeremy *******
settle down newb. All newbs think they have the answers. Without knowing their head from their ass. You won’t be the first or the last to pass on thru all frustrated at their experience.
Jeremy ********
@Todd ********
I guess it’s your first rodeo

I’ve Been doing this for over a decade forgetting more stuff than you will ever remember
Stuart *********
500 baht per day fine up to a max of 20,000 baht.
Christopher *********
ORIGINAL POSTER
@Stuart ********
Thank you Stuart
Stuart *********
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