What documents do I need for a COVID visa extension in Thailand, and how do I apply?

Visa Extension COVID-19 Visa Extension Thailand Immigration Tourist Visa Sukhumvit Bangkok Immigration Office Visa Requirements Expat Advice

June 4, 2021

3 years ago

Michelle *********

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Hi.  I've just escaped Myanmar ( Australian passport) on a sixty day tourist visa ... It expires 6 th July and I'm in Bangkok... Can someone advise in simple terms the docs I need to take for a covid extension, how long is the extension, cost  ..I'm staying at a hotel in Sukhumvit ..   which office I need to go to and can one make an appointment ?    Thanks so much.   ..

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A traveler from Myanmar on a 60-day tourist visa, expiring on July 6, in Bangkok, is seeking guidance on obtaining a COVID-19 visa extension. To secure this extension, they must visit a local immigration office and prepare several documents, including their passport, copies of relevant pages, TM30 form, passport pictures, and a fee of 1,900 THB. The process may also require a letter from their embassy stating their inability to travel due to COVID-19. After some community assistance, the traveler successfully made an appointment at the Bangkok Central Immigration Office near Terminal 21 mall.

Michelle *********

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Thx for everyone's assistance ... I've got an appointment ! Thx again 👍

3 years ago

Michelle *********

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Bangkok central ... Near Terminal 21mall

3 years ago

Michelle *********

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Which one should I get first ? 30 day T ext or 60 day covid ?

3 years ago

Tod *********

@Michelle ********

when you make a booking on the site you want one of these choices (COUNTER J)

3 years ago

Tod *********

@Michelle ********

the way it works IS

IF the immigration office will let you go straight to a 60 day covid extension (some won't and make you take the regular 30 day extension first) they will start the covid extension on the date you apply for it <-meaning you will lose any days you have left on your current 60 day entry stamp

BUT

IF you take the 30 day regular extension first they start it on the day your current stamp ends. <- meaning you don't lose any days

All you can do is GO and ask the immigration office at Chaengwattana Counter J if you can get the 60 day covid extension now or if you have to take the 30 day extension first.

3 years ago

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Tod *********

Ejaz **********

@Michelle ********

you must take passport first page copy one picture and must take adress where you stay. You will get easily your COVID-19 amnisty visa extension

3 years ago

Ellie *******

@Ejaz *********

do you mean you could get 60 days Covid extension before (or without) applying for standard 30days tourism extension?

3 years ago

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Ellie *******

Ejaz **********

@Michelle ********

hi today I get my 60day extension. You must go Chang watna Imigration office. You go 20th June.

3 years ago

Benjamin ******

@Michelle ********

You'll use Changwattana immigration office. You need to make an appointment before you go:

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You'll use Counter J.

For my list I posted above, you will not need the ID card for the property owner or stamped pages in your passport for either the extension of stay based on tourism or the 60 day extension of stay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19

3 years ago

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Benjamin ******

>I'm staying at a hotel in Sukhumvit

Sukhumvit is a long road that goes from Bangkok to the Cambodian border. WHICH part of Thailand are you in (ask the hotel to say the name).

>Can someone advise in simple terms the docs I need to take for a covid extension

MOST immigration offices require you to get a 30 day extension of stay based on tourism before applying for a 60 day extension of stay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19.

> which office I need to go to and can one make an appointment

You'd use your local immigration office. Which one would that be, I don't know :(

>Can someone advise in simple terms the docs I need to take for a covid extension

The paperwork to apply for a 60 day extension of stay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19 is almost the same as a 30 day extension of stay based on tourism.

Different immigration offices have different requirements, but all require the following:

1. Your passport and:

a. a copy of your data ("picture") page

b. a copy of your most recent visa (if you have one)

c. a copy of your most recent stamp

d. a copy of your departure card

2. A TM30, filed in the immigration office.

3. The forms (each immigration office may have different forms, and ant to use their special forms)

4. A letter from your embassy saying you can not return, OR a print out from your embassy saying they don’t issue the letters, OR a print out of a letter from the embassy saying they don't issue those letters. [COVID-19 only]

5. 2x passport pictures

6. 1,900 THB.

Different immigration offices have different policies. *SOME* may require:

- The ID card of the property owner where you are staying

- Copies of *ALL* stamped pages in your passport

You're out of nothing by applying for a 60 day extension of stay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19 first.

3 years ago

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Benjamin ******

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