Will I face issues leaving Thailand due to my week-long overstay caused by a medical emergency?

A week overstay is 500x7=3,500. It's not the end of the world, and it doesn't have any other negative consequences as long as you get to immigration or a border first (i.e. the police don't pick you up for some other reason and discover your overstay). Bans come in only after 90 days overstay, as long as you present yourself first.

You will have to pay the overstay either way but you can choose between just going to a border and leaving (and paying the 3,500 there) or going to immigration to get an extension (for which you will pay 3,500+1,900, but should get another 23 days (30 days minus the 7 you have overstayed).

If you have the whole visa run arranged and want to do that anyway, I don't see an advantage to going to immigration and paying an extra 1,900 if you plan to leave immediately anyway. You can pay the overstay fine at the border/airport.

As you mentioned, just go to immigration office asap with the doctor's letter and they should grant you an extension of stay. Problem solved

If u got travel insurance u send them the receipt from immigration. They will reimburse u.

I don't see anything more constructive coming out of this toplc.

The rules are the rules. You are going to be liable for the overstay fines, doctor's note or not.

You should have got an extension ay the border they will laugh at you. Also the letter must state unfit to travel. I know this mysrlf after getting run over by a concrete truck and spent 3 months 8n hospital

Dear

@C**

, it is not meant to be mean but it is how Immigration works. You get into hospital, yourself if able or the Hospital is applying for an Extension of Stay on medical reasons. That is the way it should be done. Just a letter from a doctor while on overstay showing up at an Immigration Checkpoint is not clearing the overstay. Sorry to bring you news you do not like to hear.

Hey Cat, sorry you were sick. I had that happen to me, too, a few years ago. I was literally bed-ridden for three days, putting me one day over my visa. Not in a hospital, but in a hotel and a doctor had to come out to me. I could barely make it to the bathroom, let alone to an immigration office, so fuck knows who made up that stupid rule because it makes no sense at all! If you were well enough to get to the immigration office and deal with a bunch of paperwork, you'd just take your flight.

I gave them my doctor's certificate and I just had to pay the overstay which I think was about 500 baht. I hope that's all you'll be up against. Good luck.

immigration has a rule. you overstay you pay..end of story...no matter what paper you show...

pay the loot for overstay. .job done

As soon as you have a medical issue and facing overstay you take a letter from your medic to Immigration and apply for an Extension of Stay. Doing nothing and just go on overstay to a border and show the statement of a hospital is not the way to do it.