What should I do if my visa extension paperwork is delayed and I'm facing potential overstay in Thailand?

As the problem seems to be solved, the OP just replied he informed Immigration and will go into overstay and is expecting to pay the fines I close the commenting. Lets all hope he will during this overstay not checked by any official. Good luck.

That's because children under 15 years old are not fined for overstay.

Nothing to do with you or the school.

Yes Immigration will be very sympathetic. They will then tell you what your fine is and put an overstay stamp in your passport.

It's almost seems like the entity supplying the paperwork has to pay an administrative fee to get the paperwork.

I totally agree with the School. It is not their problem. You as the one with the passport with ovestay goes in jail, get fined in court and deported. The school just sign up another student and continue with normal day lessons. No problem.

Yes overstaying IS our/your responsibility. However I do sympathise in some cases as when your waiting for an employer to produce the correct paperwork it can be a nightmare (here). I generally start to hassle EVERYONE involved in getting my paperwork sorted months in advance and even then it usually goes down to the last few days. Also, I think looking at some of the recent posts, overstay at the moment is definitely NOT ok, maybe you should show them the recent posts about being deported - email, message and tell every single person involved in your paperwork asap. Unfortunately it means being a ‘proper pain in the ass’ people will tell you to relax and that it’s ok - until it isn’t.

Immigration must now have a book of 'Its ok for Jack to be on overstay as he has notified us'.

So, the people who aren’t overstaying their visa, in fact people who’ve never even had a visa because they don’t need one in their own country have told you that overstaying a visa is ‘no problem’?

No problem for them obviously.

You really shouldn't keep telling yourselves that overstay isn't your fault and isn't a problem. YOU overstayed, its YOUR fault and YOUR problem.

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Complain complain complain.

They are neglecting their duty and putting you in a position where you could go to prison for overstay.

Just keep saying you are scared of going to prison and the paperwork magically appears the next day.

Just so sad that it's not our fault we have to suffer the consequences and need to pay from our own pockets.

I had the same case before but the local immigration in my place said that I need to pay ฿500/day as penalty because my papers are incomplete and I actually did pay per day.