What should I do if my passport is expiring soon and my embassy cannot issue a new one in time for a visa extension in Thailand?

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The OP is from Chile. It's unknown exactly what type of document they would give her. If it's an emergency passport, then she can get the stamps transferred. If it's an emergency letter to get home, then she can't. Different countries have different policies, and we don't know what that policy is for her country.

However, some immigration offices are starting to resist giving out the 60 day extension of stay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19. Living in Thailand on the 60 day extension of stay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19 is not a long-term strategy.

The only thing you can do is to get this travel document (passport? letter? I dunno), and apply for the extension. The worse they would say is no.

What other nationalities do is up to those countries. Good luck!

Some country issue emergency passport (as Daniel describes above). Some issue only emergency travel document to go back to your home. Some issue both - one of them. What's OP needs to do first is check with her embassy to see which she can get. So far it seems like nobody knows how Chilean embassy does with "emergency passport".

Last year my American passport was going to expire (typical 10 year passport) the USA embassy was told that issuing standard 10

Passports was not possible due to government office closed in the states so they issued a temporary one year emergency passport and I used that for my annual visa extension. Immigration has no issue the only problem was my yearly extension was cut short by 2 months since the emergency passport cut short before the expiration. Don’t worry—emergency temporary one year passports r fine!

An emergency passport is different to an Emergency Travel Document - for a UK passport holder. An Emergency Passport is a 6 page passport with one year validity. An Emergency Travel document is supplemental piece of paper. So if emergency passport you will be fine with Immigration.

Your options are:

- leave the country and go back to where you come from

-do nothing for 3 months and end up on an overstay of more than 90 days where you're banned from the country for a year.

- get a covid extension on your passport that takes to until april 18th

OR

-get an emergency passport (which usually are good for a year AND which you can get extension stamps issued on) get a covid extension and pray there is some other extension plan comin' up so you can stay legal until you get your new passport

That's pretty much the choices you have :(

You cannot remain in the country without a passport with valid visa/extension. An Emergency Travel document is only so you can return to your home country. I would suggest you may have left your run a little late, and may have to return to your home country as quickly as possible. Beware once your visa expires you will be on overstay.