What options do expats in Thailand have regarding visa extensions during the pandemic?

Your Embassy will only grant you a letter to stay in Thailand if you have proof of a cancelled and re-scheduled flight that shows you made an attempt to return back to your country. You won’t be able to just live in Thailand on an expired Tourist visa and use the excuse that you didn’t want to go back.

Bali is giving overstayers an emergency visa extension. Hopefully, this will catch on and other ASEAN countries will do the same.

The U.S. Embassy Bkk issued a long Health Advisory on March 20. In that advisory it says... "U.S. citizens normally resident overseas should avoid international travel."

Monday, I am going to send an email letter to the U.S. Embassy Bkk asking that this phrase be used in a letter on Embassy Letterhead sent to me as a PDF attachment in reply. Or to please use a stronger more definitive statement.

I will explain that I am a resident here in Thailand. Furthermore, that leaving causes a great deal of problems for me as I have serious responsibilities here.

I will also point out that I remain a citizen of the United States. Plus attach a copy of the main page of my passport. I don't want them to overlook that fact. 😉

Probably within a couple of days most airlines will cancel flights for the foreseable future and more embassies will start providing their citizens with the letter to prove you can't leave to get an extension.

A one year COVID19 visa extension would be juicy 😍

Mr. Ambassador

Are you on Twitter?

Yeah If all the flights are cancelled from tonight.. it’s either leave the country and try and get back in, or stay here with my girlfriend and see what happens. Given that there’s what? A couple hundred people at CW every day there’s gonna be a lot of people in the same boat, so it’s not like we overstay on purpose etc. Doing our best to figure out a plan.

British embassy closed until Monday, tried calling that’ll never work so Monday I’ll head down there and see what’s what 🙂

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Maybe based on this existing law:

How long have you already been here on a Tourist Visa? 🤣

Don’t know if it helps

Best in these times dont rely on facebook check your embassys page and Thai immigration page

Would like to know what happens when someone extends their visa for 30 days and that 30 days is running out and you can’t travel to Laos/Myanmar/Cambodia to a Thai Embassy and apply for a new Visa. Seems like you either have to overstay your visa in Thailand for who knows how long or fly back to your home country until this pandemic is over. What are the other options?

Things are getting hard. Many border is close and nit abke to get renew due to cov-19 there will be a lot of over stay happening as we speak... Hope things csn get better soon. A trip back hone is going to get very expensive and is a one way ticket as no visa is going to be issued fir the time being.... 😱😭 Any update guys.

malaysai may extend the closing of border date