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What is the correct date to leave Thailand and re-enter for extending my Non-Immigrant O-A visa?

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March 24, 2022

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Sorry to be a pain. Just one more clarifying question. 

My initial Non Immigrant O-A visa issued in Australia is valid until 3 Aug 2022 and the entry stamp from immigration says until 26 Aug 2022.

Which date do I need to leave and come back in by to get the additional 12 months?

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To extend your Non Immigrant O-A visa in Thailand for an additional year, you need to leave the country and re-enter before the initial entry stamp date of 3 August 2022. The entry stamp from immigration indicates that your permitted stay expires on 26 August 2022, and returning before 3 August will allow you a new one-year extension upon re-entry.

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If you leave, you will need to re enter before 3rd August 2022, however I do understand you will need the required insurance for another year also, meaning they will stamp you in until the end day of your accompanying insurance cover....

Extending the OA without leaving, you may have to buy the

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inpatient/outpatient insurance, which for now still remains inexpensive, likely to be far less than the cost of return airfares and insurances.....

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Tod *********

they also don't need to show proof of funds flying out and back either 🙂

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Christine *****

I never left the country but applied for another year extension

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then you lost the 'free year' of stay off the OA visa that most people get

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Christine *****

we arrived nov 2019 and renew Nov 2020, nov 2021 … we couldn’t fly out cause of Covid. We didn’t know that we should fly out 😅 we hope to fly out before nov 2022 and into Thailand after the OA visa date so we arrived on STV to apply for O visa (retirement) so that we do not need to buy insurance

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If you leave and return before August 3...you will be stamped in for ONE MORE YEAR.

Only need the OA insurance for one added year.

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Lloyd ********

26 August is your permitted to stay. The 3 August is the last day you could enter the country and be stamped in for another year.

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Lloyd ********

yep

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thanks heaps.

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ORIGINAL POSTER

thank you. So I need to leave and re enter before 3 August.

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