What should I do if my passport expires before my DTV visa is valid?

Seems they are prepared for this. Someone I met had Thai handwriting on his visa, I didn’t.

Google translate showed the writing noted that passport expires before visa and to allow transfer.

They will be especially aware as dependents are part of the visa. Children are only issued 5 year passports (well in UK - I don’t know all countries!).

You will be fine.

Your old passport will be returned along with the new one. Usually the old one will have the sides clipped or a hold punched through it to deactivate it. Immigration can transfer the visa to the new passport

Not sure where you’re from but in uk where I’m from when you renew your passport they send you the old one with cut pages to know it’s out of use so you should be fine 👍

Does anyone know how this works as mine is a year out to

Not sure about the DTV but I renewed my passport on a tourist visa once and I just presented both passports to immigration when I left- this is if the passport renewal is done within Thailand. You just let the officer know that you renewed your passport and they handle the rest.

In this case though you might want to present yourself to immigration, i think they would be able to copy the DTV over to the new passport, or give instructions on what to do.

All that being said, the best idea might be just making sure that you still have 6 years of validity left on your passport when you apply so that this won’t become an issue for you later. At least for me it was more easy than I realized to renew my passport.

If all the visas in your old passport are transferred to the new one, why do you want to keep the old one?

The DTV Visa will only be issued to the ending date of your current passport.

You will NOT get a full 5 years DTV Visa.

Suggest you get a NEW passport before you get the DTV visa.

I previously switched a work visa from an old to new passport. You cannot cancel the old passport before switching out the visa because once your passport is canceled, your visa is cancelled.

My embassy (U.S.) allowed me to keep two active passports and asked me to return the old one for cancellation after I got the visa transferred.

I did that and it all worked out fine.

You nornally keep the expired passport and use the visas on it

Present both passports when entering, the entry exit stamps will be put in the new passport. Make sure when you do apply for a new passport you specify you want the old returned if you send it in.

You keep your old passport

You can keep your old passport and use visas in it