Will I be charged a 500 baht overstay fee if I go to immigration on the first weekday after my tourist visa expires?

@To**

, *scratching head*. I have no idea what you're trying to say. Different offices interpret the rules and enforce them differently. Actually it isn't even necessarily the office, quite often it's the individual in the office you're dealing with. It's normal to be told different things by different officials. You just have to go with the flow as they like to do things slightly different from time to time. Read all the posts on the TM.30 as an example.

@Brad ********

different rules does that mean some take money some don't.

I've been to a few immigration offices around Thailand and there all have CCTV By the way CCTV Is not a visa.

Marco, different Immigration Offices have different rules. So you may be correct. This has been my experience with Chonburi Immigration in the past.

This year I won't have an update as I have an METV, so I'll be doing some travelling every 60 days.

@Br**

, I think you are wrong.

Almost all Immigration offices (including Bangkok and Chiang Mai, for example) allow you to file an extension when you have 45 days or less left on your current admitted until stamp.

That means IF you fly in on a 30 day visa exempt stamp you can go right to the immigration office and apply for an extension. (Quoting Tod Daniels)

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@Marco ********

book makes a good read

Yes, I should have been more specific as the rules are different for different visa types. For a 30 day visa exempt or a SETV, the 30 day extension can only be applied for 5 days before the permitted to stay date stamped in the passport on entry.

He talks about 60 day visa.

It can be extended any time, also after 1 day you arrive in Thailand.

Don't get confused with report on extension of stay, that can be done 14 days before till 7 days after the expiring date

45 days or 30 days to apply for Extension of Stay, depending on Immigration.

Possibly true!

They've nothing to do.

@Daithi ****

I am not drying. You are just a DRYING GAME. So stop your arguments that don't work for anybody. Not even you. Complain to your local Immigration instead of here.

@Daithi ****

And you not understand what i say to you. When Immigration is closed for Weekend or Holidays, you have to report the next weekday. This is in ordinary English, so you should understand. You think that Thai Immigration are putting it up in print, just to get overstays out of foreigners.. That is what you are suggesting here. You don't believe a word of what Immigration put in writing. And you will not NOT get an overstay for coming on Monday. NOT. And now, complain about your findings to Thai Immigration, and find out what they will cll you. Not here anymore. Tired of you now. But wait a few hours, then my neighbour come home from Immigration where he works. Thai Officer at Immigration. Who i got my information from. So complain to Immigration wherever you are in Thailand. Not here.

@Daithi ****

You think, that Thai Immigration Office have their rule saying, If the office is closed because of weekend or Holidays, you have to come the following weekday. You think that is for fun they have that rule, and it is printed en every Immigration Office.

@Daithi ****

NOT true. I have been making visa for all my friends for the last 10 years. So you not think that i know it. And who did you ask. My friends come on monday, if it finish on saturday or sunday, and not one of them have got an overstay. Good friday.

Your information is wrong he will be fined 1 day overstay

Daithi Doo. Incorrect. You wont be fined and you wont get an over stay stamp.

It's an overstay u will be fine d

Yes. It's technically an Overstay. However, in the majority they do nothing about it as it's not a working day for the Immigration Centres. Most of them will not even stamp your passport either.

@Adrien *****

You originally agreed it was an overstay if expiration fell on a Sunday

Im pretty sure that no Immigration office charges overstay fine in this specific case. But the passport is stamped 1 day overstay, that is always better to avoid, that's why the best advice is to extend the visa today.

@Marco ********

. It is true. If the date expires over the weekend you can on the next available working day and will not be charged. The issue you have is this could be dependent on the local rules of the specific immigration centre. But generally speaking you are not charged

Why you say that? It's not true.

@Adrien *****

thanks.

Yes

@David ***********

Even if expiration is on a Sunday