What should I know about getting a visa extension on Koh Phangan and Koh Samui?

Hi, good luck tomorrow! How did you book with samui immigration? Please let us know how it was. I too have all docs and will do first extension soon 🙏🏼

#iloveDTVvisa

Yayyyy!!

If you have to go to samui just do a border run.

Even when extending for a month after your two month visa is sometimes complicated and confusing due to language barriers among all the parties involved. Meaning your landlord, the immigration staff and yourself. So when renewing a DTV, that means 10 times more confusion and complications. So it is best just to do a border run, enjoy a new destination for a week or two and come back. I know we all love Thailand that we don’t want to be away for a minute, but let’s not be cheap Charlies and do what is simple and stress free.

Don't worry, they would've come up with another reason if it wasn't the make-believe appointment. Many immigration offices don't want to do DTV extensions, so they'll give you crazy requirements. Then if you meet those requirements, they'll say "But you need this too" and keep doing that until you stop bothering them.

You are far from an idiot 🙂 but with that being said you sure picked a tough immigration office to deal with 😮 🙁

AND

You're probably way ahead just going to Samui and trying

BUT

if it doesn't fly there and you are running out of time just bounce you out and back by land to get a new 180 day stamp (There are services that run almost every day to the border from Samui)

the real question would be WHY did you burn your 180 day entry stamp down so far before you went to the immigration office ?

At most offices in the country you can apply for a new extension of stay when you have 30 days or less left on your current stamp (and you don't lose any time applying early because the extension is added to your current expiration date)

hmm i think many people don't know about this so you are not a idiot. I've read before that the dtv extension at KP is quite difficult.