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What is the procedure for canceling a Non-B Visa when leaving Thailand?

Non-B Visa Visa Cancellation Extension of Stay Thai Immigration Work Permit 90-Day Reporting

Jun 25, 2018

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What’s the correct procedure for canceling a Non-B Visa when leaving the country? Do you have a to leave on the day it’s canceled or have to extend if you aren’t leaving that day? 

Plan is to come back again in the future hence wanting to do it all properly.

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To cancel a Non-B Visa when leaving Thailand, it's important to distinguish between the visa and the extension of stay. You cannot directly cancel a Non-B Visa; instead, you must cancel your work permit first. If you are on an extension of stay, you should also cancel that at the immigration office. This can be done in advance, and you do not have to wait until the last day of your visa validity. Once you cancel everything, you can exit the country and apply for a new visa later.

Tod *********

, you need to understand that there is a HUGE difference between a real VISA and an extension of stay.

A year-long, multi-entry Non-B visa (that you get ONLY from a thai consulate OUTSIDE the country) requires that the holder exit/re-enter the country every 90 days for the validity of the visa.

A year-long extension of stay (that you get ONLY from the thai immigration office INSIDE the country) requires that you do 90 day reporting

You don't need to do anything if she is canceling the VISA, just cancel the work permit, exit the country, get a new visa from a thai consulate.

However IF she is on a yearly extension, you need to cancel the work permit, take that receipt and paperwork from her company to the immigration office and CANCEL the extension of stay she's on. You don't need to wait until the last day you can go weeks early. They will cancel the current extension and stamp her in until the termination date on the paperwork. Then you can leave the country and go get another visa.

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Tod *********

she would need to leave the country on the last day of her employment (what ever the termination paperwork says)

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new passport hasn’t arrived yet so she has none right now.

So when it arrives, take both passports to cancel the work permit, then go to immigration to cancel the extension (take the letter from consulate along too)?

When would she then have to leave he country by?

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Tod *********

she should have went to the immigration office and transferred her stamps almost as soon as she got her new passport or at the very least when she did her 90 day report :/

In theory she should go transfer the stamps from the old passport to the new passport, then go to the Ministry of Labour and cancel her work permit, then take her paperwork to the immigration office and cancel her extension

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I would imagine she can just go cancel the work permit, then take the paperwork and BOTH passports to the immigration office (along with the letter her consulate gave her stating she got a new passport) and they'll move the stamps and cancel the extension.

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ok I think I follow. So if she has her stamps in her old passport does she have to transfer the stamps to the new one, then cancel the work permit, then go back to immigration all on the same day? Or can she take both passports to cancel work permit and then go to immigration?

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Tod *********

Seeing as you said she's allowed to be here until Nov she has to be on an extension because all in country visas are sold as 90 days only ;)

SO you would need to follow

's correct advice (y) you would go cancel the work permit, take that receipt and termination paperwork from the company to the immigration office and cancel the extension of stay. You don't have to wait to the last day on the paperwork. You can go weeks early and cancel the current extension, and you'll be stamped in until the termination date on the paperwork. Then you just exit the country and get a new visa from a thai consulate.

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Tod *********

Then she got an extension of stay like this

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Tod *********

she got a 90 day Non-B visa THEN she got a yearly extension of stay based on employment. The visa was only good for 90 days, I would bet what she has in her passport looks like this 90 day Non-B visa marked USED and then a new 90 day stamp and finally an extension of stay and a re-entry permit maybe.

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Vinny ********

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Her current visa she got inside the country and only does 90 day reports and not any extensions.

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Robert *******

You can not cancel a Non B visa. You have to cancel the WP and if you have the Extension of Stay from Immigration, both on the last day of working and can be done in advance.

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Vinny ********

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she doesn’t have algae passport at the minute, she just applied for a new one so will get back to you on the stamp when it comes back.

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Robert *******

It all depends on how she is inside the country, take a look at her passport and look if the stamp is similar to this example with the end date November:

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Vinny ********

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my wife works here legally, employed on a work visa valid until November. We will leave and come back in a couple of months and she will be getting a Non-O based on marriage to me (I will be on Non-B).

We just want to make sure we do things right before we leave so they don’t reject her Non-O application. Don’t want to be having to go to immigration to get anything done on the day we fly out either so trying to work out when we would have to go to immigration and to get what done. Hope this makes sense.

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Robert *******

Do you have an actual VISA and make border runs every 90 days or do you stay inside Thailand on an Extension of Stay and making 90 days reports to Immigration?

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Vinny ********

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Still don’t understand what needs to be done.

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