What should I do about my extended stay and lost passport situation in Thailand?

How did it end ??

Great you got your passport back

Dont expect to be granted an extention after overstaying.

Cannot.

When you leave the airport after paying the overstay fine, dont expect to be let back in.

Even if you ask the immigration officer ,'is it ok to come back after paying the fine and doing a border run ? They will look at your passport and say 'yes no problem sir, you will get a 45 day stamp and you can make a visa next time. When you return, Immigration officers will place you in a holding cell and you will be deported.

If you want to go back , I advise you to make a visa 'not a Tourist visa or dont try and go back for at least 4 months.

You are now beyond help from any other authority.

Cannot pay the fine at an immigration office, they will tell you to go to the airport as soon as possible and also advise that if you are stopped by police in between leaving the immigration office and going to the airport you will end up in jail.

It is more likely you will be locked up if you go to the police station asking for a copy of a police report regaurding your stolen bag and passport, which you now have.

I am telling the most realistic scenario of what will happen and am advising what you need to do.

Thai Immigration are cracking down and have been deporting people for less overstay and boasting about overstayers on the news.

Dont expect any special treatment, even if you have been hard done by and have a charming sweet mouth.

Nobody in Thailand and especially at Immigration gives a f××k about you, except you.

I am telling you this from recent first hand experience.

Im not giving you a hyperthetical idea or mabyes.

Make sure you take all of your belongings to the airport and dont expect immigration to let you back in after a flight to Malaysia and back, even on exit they tell you its ok.

I ended up back in my country 3 deg , jeans flipflops and t shirt freezing destitue, with all my belongings still in a room in Phuket.

Totally f××ked up.

God speed to you mate.

Stop Getting Drunk

Make sure you go to the police station you filed the lost passport report at, and make them aware you found your passport, as the first thing they do is contact your embassy, and immigration to have that passport voided the same day. If you try to use it for anything you could be arrested for illegal passport, until they get it straightened out. This is serious, and you can end up in jail very easily. I hope you have other official ID to prove it is you. You still must pay the overstay fine first thing. There is no way around that, and it grows by bt500 each day until it tops out at bt20,000. New Years celebrations will have a number of check points all over Thailand starting today.

Go to immigration on the 3rd January.

Pay the 9000thb overstay fine

Buy the 30 day extension for 1900thb that will be backdated to the 17th.

Dress appropriately

Don't get arrested or stopped by the popo in the meantime as everything will go to ratshit from there on.

Jason, from your profile it appears you're American, which get Visa exempt entries (Not Visas on arrival) which is a good thing for you.

You're on overstay, which is bad. Worse that its going to be a 3 week overstay by the time immigration opens. The good news is you're eligible for a 30 day extension. You'll have to pay probably a 20k baht overstay fine plus the 1900 baht extension, but you shouldn't get in any trouble beyond that.

Looks like you're American so likely on a visa exempt entry not a voa. I'd go to an immigration office, pay the overstay fine and ask them politely for an extension.

My first thought was.....Step 1. Get new passport and continue with process . Step 2. Sell old passport on the black market. Step 3. Profit. But then I realized we are 2 weeks past when you lost your passport and you still have basically done nothing. So.......chok dee kap.

I don't know. But I would say take your police report with your passport to an agency first and explain the situation. Or just wait for the new passport to arrive