Cancel or not to cancel, it seems to be confusing.
When you visit a Thai Consulate and you apply for a Visa and you get this visa attached in your passport it is there.
It is a sticker, glued to your passport page and can not taken out without damaging the passport.
When it is a Single Entry visa, you can see when the Immigration Officer hands back your passport, they he did a few things:
1. Your visa got a stamp used
1. he/she put a new stamp with Admitted untl ../../..
1. The TM6 departure card is sometimes stapled to a page and also stamped with Admitted until ../../..
This visa can not be cancelled, it is used on entry and is nothing more than a memory in your passport.
If you visit the Immigration Office before the Admitted to Stay date stamped into your passport and you apply there for the Extension of Stay, just because you do not like to leave this lovely country, Immigration will put a new big stamp into your passport with the first line the region and name of the office and in the second line: Extension of Stay permitted up to ../../..
To get this Extension of Stay you filed a few documents, one of them is the acknowledgement of understanding the rules of this Extension of Stay.
In these rules it is mentioned that IF the reason why you got this Extension change you have to come back to inform the officer and cancel this extension.
For Example:
You can stay longer to study, but if you do not study you have to cancel this permission of stay.
You can stay longer to work. but if you stop working you have to cancel this permission to stay.
You work as volunteer, but you stop walking the dogs, you have to cancel this permission of stay.
You are married, if you get divorced you have to cancel this permission of stay.
You are over 50 years of age, no problem you will not get younger.
If you go for holiday and on return to do the same, study work or being married you do not need to cancel.
With the Extension of Stay and the reason why you got this stamp change , you go back to inform your Immigration Office, Please do not think, the end date is near or just a few months away, the computer will change the information by it selves.
TLDR : Answer Summary
The post explains that a visa cannot be canceled once used for entry into Thailand, as it is a permanent sticker in the passport. However, if a traveler wishes to change the reason for their Extension of Stay (e.g., from studying to working), they must report this change to the Immigration Office and officially cancel the extension. Confusion often arises regarding the requirements for different visa types, such as NON-O vs. NON-OA, and how changes in circumstances affect Extension of Stay permissions.
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