What should I know about my Thai visa situation and extension options as an Australian citizen?

keep in mind, correct wording will prevent confusion:

When you enter Thailand, you will NEVER be given any visa.

You will rather get stamped in with a STAY PERMIT.

It's that little flag-like red stamp that says "admitted until" and a date in blue ink which is the expiry date of the stay permit.

In the upper right corner the IO will either stamp or hand-write the "visaclass" you used for this entry.

You now are in Thailand on a stay permit, not on a visa

Stop going to Thailand.

Gouging people.

We did the same, lesson learnt

I made the same mistake from the US, although mine didn’t cost as much

@George ***********

And, even after all these discussions in the group, you are still in the wrong!

You said you paid 300.- AUD visa fee

This would mean that you MOST OBVIOUSLY were issued a 6-months multi entry Tourist Visa. Check the photo below. It lists the visa fees of the Thai General Consulate Sidney

The visa validity is 6 months from the date it is issued. Each entry stamps you in for 60 days. You can extend every 60 days stay permit with 30 more days on Immigration for 1900.- THB.

If you exit and re-enter Thailand short of the expiry date of the visa, you will get stamped in for 60 days for a last time. By this you can get almost 8 months stay in Thailand out of this visa

So would you please have a look at the pdf. visa document you printed, and tell us how long the visa validity is? It is the date printed after the text “visa valid until”

Is it an METV?? I didn't think embassies/consulates had single entry tourist visas available anymore?? to countries that get 60 days visa exempt upon arriving in Thailand, what would be the point?? If it's a "multiple entry tourist visa" you get stamped in for 60 days, and can extend it once for 30 days, and then you need to leave Thailand and come back again, and do the same thing again, you can do that for its 6 months validity, do a border bounce just before it expires, and you can get between 8 and 9 months out of an METV.

And a 30 day extension so 90 days

@George ***********

if you applied at the Thai Embassy in Australia you would have applied for a 60-day TR (Tourist) Visa.. The stamp in your passport states that you are permitted to stay until what date George?

As everyone advises no such beast as a 90 day Tourist Visa Visa.

You could have just got 60 day visa exempt on arrival and then extended for 30 days at immigration for 1900 as you have said. So embassy is correct you can stay for 90 if you extend that visa for 30 days. I think you may have applied for a multi entry going by the price. Seems like there was some confusion along the way.

That is 60 days visa exempt PLUS a guaranteed 30 day extension for 1,900 thb if you choose.