What should my friend do about his Thai visa overstay and getting a new passport?

1. Why does your friend think he can shit on Thailand and do whatever he likes? Did he not know they have prisons there?

2. If his passport was all stamped out, why didn't he get a new one before flying into ANY country?

3. He flew in with his father whom I presume is in his late 40s to 60s. I'm assuming his father is still of sound mind. Why didn't his father help to oversee this matter? Isn't this what fathers do for their children?

Sorry if I sound negative or chiding but this is not an unforeseeable problem. Sounds more like an attitude problem where your 19 yo friend thought he can do whatever he likes in countries like Thailand. I do hope things go well for him in the end but please advise him not to do things like this again. Also there's no guarantee that he can come back again so fast with his new passport. Thailand would record that he overstayed and may blacklist him for a period. It would be prudent for him to check with immigration before he leaves. All the best to your friend.

Wow piss poor planning. Some people should just stay home.

How do people not plan ahead.

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If he hands himself in to authorities he will only get a light jail sentence

The British or Spanish embassy, whatever his nationality is...

Spain stamping entering and exiting Gibraltar is a cruel joke. They do it in spite because they want to have control of Gibraltar

Go to his home country embassy in Bangkok get a replacement passport it worked for me

He needs to go home, NOW! Thailand doesn't play well with overstaying.

If he's stopped by police for any reason he will end up in a jail cell.

You won’t be readmitted!

How hard can it be?

How did he get into this situation in the first place is MY actual question. Self inflicted wound, so to speak.

And also, if he gets stopped by police during this period, he will have more issues to deal with.

Overstay😒 Go out from Thailand ASAP! Always have space for stamp for go out from Thailand. Don’t talk the rubbish things that make yourself think comfortable. A friend or yourself? Don’t bluff us🧐

19 years old. Should be working. If not at that age when ?

Fly to a country without entry stamps and apply for an emergency passport there. Examples: Hong Kong, Malaysia (if national of certain countries and entry through KLIA airport automatic gate), or Australia, Korea, Singapore..., or home country of course

Obviously he needs to get a new passport through his embassy. There is no excuse. He could have done it before he ran out of space. That's what I did.

I got mine in Bangkok from uk gov website link took a few weeks to get back they also do other countries

Emergency passport at his embassy you don’t state nationality

Another quality tourist🤷🏾‍♀️

He will have to manage his passport from his home country. He might not be allowed back in with a disrespectful overstay on his record.

Get an emergency travel document pay the 6-7000 baht fine at the airport go home and get a new passport don’t get caught before you get to the airport as you will be jailed then figure out when he can come back might be a short ban

If he gets passport checked by the BiB he’s in for a world of hurt, also by overstaying he’s hurting his chances of receiving a visa in the future

I would suggest a flight to his home country asap get a new passport and return

Plan B…Cambodia sells a year visa $300 no questions asked but you need passport pages to get it

You need two blank pages in a passport to “enter” Thailand. Immigration would have noticed this.

I really don't understand why people can be so stupid..wake up

he should call his embassy and find out directly from them - it will not be the first time they have gotten and inquiry like this - and they will know what to do - way better than random people here. My only other input is he should consider leaving asap - overstay is taken seriously and can have ramifications beyond a fine - including refusal to allow return for a period of time. He should leave and sort it out re the new passport elsewhere - if he has already overstayed 2 weeks he needs to leave - pay a fine and beg forgiveness

Sounds like now he’s getting a different kind of education!

the only safe route is: fly back home immediately and pay the overstay fine at the airport. Even on the full passport. On the way out there is no more exit stamp from Thailand through the automated gates. However, he will need a little bit of space for the OVERSTAY STAMP in his passport. If there isn't even this little space, he needs an emergency passport from his embassy 😄😃😄

What's being overlooked is "he's here with his father". Seems like their family problem, unless your 'friend' is in fact you. Always interesting to note that these dire situation posts are always someone asking for a 'friend' 🤦

Leave Thailand at once. Overstay is never good but its still somewhat small...dont let it get any bigger. Go home and get it sorted.

Airport flight out ASAP , 500 per day fine , if he’s arrested or if he’s required to show passport before he’s at airport he will get arrested fined & blacklisted .

do not overstay in the last year i have heard of many people being picked up by police for just 2 days overstay

He should leave Thailand immediately otherwise he will have problem in re entry. I don't know if he was not pointed out for blank pages in his passport when he landed last time. Anyways as advised by many members here ,he should pay for his overstay and leave and apply for tourist visa in his country.

Go home ASAP. You can get a new passport in UK in a few hours with fast track. 19 and dumb we all have made stupid mistakes that age but if he is with his father suely should be someone with sense.

Go before get picked up and get in a whole heap of trouble

What makes you think, by over staying, you just pay the fine and no biggie??

It's huge, it's like a big dent on one's credit report, it shows, not trustworthy, which upon return next time, the second they swipe his passport, they see he's being flagged for violating the overstay rule, which is illegal ....

And you think, ah just pay the fine, no biggie 😂

Ur both smoking really strong stuff, if you think it's it a big deal 👍

How will he be able to get any stamps/visas in neighbouring countries if he has no passport pages available? He needs to go back to his home country and get a new passport. Honestly it’s beyond belief that he’s just waited it out on overstay! Shows a complete lack of respect for the rules and regulations here.

Leave the country,pay the overstay at the airport (a maximum of 20k baht) and fly back home and renew the passport. Then come back.

Why didn’t he leave 2 weeks ago when he knew his visa was up and he couldn’t get an extension? If he is out of space, after leaving and trying to re-enter, how will he get stamped in? Wherever he goes will also require space in his passport as well. Imagine, if he started to address this 2+ weeks ago, before overstay, he might have a new passport already.

He might get flagged from the overstay and not allowed back in if he tries to immediately return after renewing his passport, even if he does pay the fine. Or maybe they won’t say anything. It could go either way.

Fly home and get a new passport.

Why wait until now? Should left before overstay . Needs new passport before returning... expensive or a lazy mistake but it's gona cost him. Leave ASAP best and only option or it's IDC

1 or 2 days overstay is already much but he has 13 days over? What about if police control him on the streets? Will they deport and blacklist him? He must be very carefully

IMMEDIATELY book a flight, leave Thailand, pay the fine for the overstay at the airport Immigration, 500 THB for every overstay day. DON'T attempt to stay in Thailand! As long as he surrenders to authority at the airport on a ticket out of Thailand, everything will be fine. But if he gets caught inside Thailand on an overstay over 11 days, he will get arrested and detained and be forced to buy a flight ticket and held in airport detention center, some will stay there for weeks (!!) and will be banned from further entries into Thailand

this is wild… pretty stupid to wait out and go into overstay instead of fixing the problem when it occurred… some people really lack common sense, wow… leave the country and take the fine. come back when you/he has a new passport. only option…

The best thing he could do is fly to his home country and get a new passport before returning, paying the overstay fine when he leaves. If he's from the UK a new passport inside Thailand would take around 3-4 weeks and he would be on overstay all that time. Overstay is never a good idea, if one is spotted by the police to be on overstay (of even one day) he can be arrested, deported and banned from Thailand for 5 years. Get him to the airport and home with enough cash in his pocket to pay the 500 baht per day overstay fine

He doesn’t want to end up in the IDC

His main problem is visa..Overstay....how long..1 day or what...?

😲😮😲 Your plan will not work!! He should NEVER remain on overstay and he won't be able to receive any extension, not even with a new passport! He must IMMEDIATELY buy a flight out of Thailand, go to the airport ASAP and leave Thailand. Showing his overstay at the airport Immigration, while holding a ticket out of Thailand, will be regarded as "surrendering to the authorities", which will prevent him from being arrested, detained and banned from Thailand. He also can visit Immigration, show them the overstay, he will be made to pay the fine and asked to leave Thailand right after. He will need to pay a fine for the overstay, 500 THB for every day. 12 days x 500 THB = 6000 Baht. KEEP IN MIND - if he gets outed inside Thailand on an overstay, he will face SEVERE consquences

Contact embassy to get new passport they should be able to assist him with this issue may still have a fine to pay but hopefully not a ban. A full pass port book is always an issue

Depending on the country you are from you can renew your passport either in Thailand or somewhere like Vietnam (we recently renewed a British passport in Da Nang and it was a fairly easy process and it took around 3 weeks to get the new passport)

Go to your national embassy in Shitland, (Personal Distaste for Thailand), Ask about getting an emergency travel document, return home and renew your passport within a week. Simple Dont look at cutting corners and using cheap ways, So it official and you won’t have any problems.

What Passport nationality?

If he’s out of space for a extension stamp how would he have space to fly somewhere else (other than his home country) and return to Thailand?