What should my husband do after incorrectly entering Thailand with a new passport and receiving a 30-day exemption instead of recognizing his Non-O retirement visa?

Old Passport has finished

with all stamps also.

As he did not go to Immigration

to transfer the old stamps

before leaving the country he

has only the new existing

passport where he got the

30 day stamp. So he must

start the new procedere.

Why didn't he renew his passport in Thailand?

Had the same problem years ago. Immigration told me to start a new process for non O retirement visa.

Best thing to do us ask at your local immigration office where i assume your non o was issued. Logically, your re entry permit is still valid in your old passport and you say it has space. If you left Thailand and re entered on your old passport presumably you would re enter under your non o. The system might have registered your new passport which would complicate things but as someone said you are not trying to do anything that is not above board. If you do re enter on the non o using the re entry permit it could possibly be easier to sort out the 30 day Visa exempt issue with your immigration office. Failing all that apply for another 90 day non o as soon as possible. Presumably you have all in place to re new your original non o so would not have a problem getting the 12 month extension at the right time. Ask at your office and make sure you apologise profusely for your mistake. Good luck.

Immigration office will give the correct answer. 1. Immigration needs to transfer the Non-O stamp to the new passport. 2. They may ask him to leave Thailand and come back on the correct stamp. Or 3. They can correct it all at the office.

I wouldn’t stress too much. Just speak with them and hopefully can fix it without leaving the country. Let us know what they say. Best of luck!

have him go to immigration to get it sorted.

I will be returning with a new passport,I will have my old passport with my 1 yr extended visa plus re-entry stamp.It’s my understanding that I need to show both passports and ask the Immigration officer to enter the visa info into my new passport at his desk.Can anyone confirm this .Much appreciated

Maybe do a border run and return using both passports

He should go to immigration and explain his situation. He hasn't done anything wrong, just showed the wrong passport.

your husband should have kept the old passport after having been issued a new passport. The visa or stay permit stamps in an old passport will remain valid. You can transfer a stay permit from your old passport to a new passport on Thai Immigration. . . . However you must ask your passport issueing authority to hand over to you the "invalidated" old passport, which is containing still valid Thai stamps

If he did not have a re-entry permit for his Non-O, it is over now. Will have to start that process over i believe

Go back to the airport and get them to sort it out for you and make sure that he takes both his passport's

Why on earth did he not show he's visa? That's weird asf

Better go to his immigration office to get their take, but as he's now legally in the country on 30-day exempt, I'd say he'd have to start the non-O from scratch. Surprised he didn't say anything at the airport when he entered