Will I get a one-year extension upon entering Thailand with an expired visa stamp?

@Tod ********

thank you!

@James *******

These are the requirements for the O-A visa from the thai consulate in Los Angeles.

@James *******

You are confusing the requirements at the immigration office INSIDE of thailand to get an extension with the requirements at a a thai consulate in your home country OUTSIDE of thailand to get a year-long multi-entry Non-O-A visa

Steven Trujillo for your proof of income for the Consulate ? Is a notarized copy of annual Social Security income report and a company pension plan report WE use when filing our US Federal Income Tax returns acceptable.. OK? Of course must be = to 65,000 Thai baht monthly...800,000 annually if using income only not funds in Thailand bank account.

Tod Daniels.

That's a winner twice!

Steven Trujillo for your proof of income for the Consulate ? Is a notarized copy of annual Social Security income report and a company pension plan report WE use when filing our US Federal Income Tax returns acceptable.. OK? Of course must be = to 65,000 Thai baht monthly...800,000 annually if using income only not funds in Thailand bank account.

Tod Daniels.

Steven Trujillo A simple records check print out? I am asking as I may do as you have done this year with the LA Thai Consulate. A computer print out with police department stamp? A form to use ?

@Steven *********

thanks. Your local police department. With finger prints or not? How many days or weeks to receive it?

555 He made you work for it Todd. ;) Thanks for all the help.

@Steven *********

if you plan on arriving each October and departing each April you will need to watch the dates or you could find yourself short on one end. Doing a border run just before you leave in April will get you that extra year, provided you purchase that reentry permit. It could also affect your return date options. I take, what is for me is the easier, albeit a bit more expensive route - I get a new non imm o-a multi entry visa every year which means no worries about extensions, and no dealings with local immigration etc except for the 24 hour and 90 day reporting requirements.

5555 ffs

@Steven *********

correct, IF you enter BEFORE the enter before date on that visa you hold now you get stamped in for a whole year.

And if you're going to leave during that year you'd need a re-entry permit BEFORE you left to get stamped back in on that stamp when you returned.

@Ste***

ahhh SORRY I missed the part that you're NOT in thailand now. :O :/

Yep, if you don't enter the country on or before the 13th of Sept that visa will be expired.

And if you didn't buy a re-entry permit BEFORE you left this last time you're stamp until Dec canceled when you stamped out.

I'd say IF you're in your country get a new Non-O-A visa before you wing your way here. If not come in on a 30 day visa exempt entry, convert that to a 90 day Non-O visa then to a yearly extension.

@Steven *********

if you purchase a reentry permit prior to departing Thailand you can stay until your extension expires in December.

@Al ******

<- what he said :)

@Steven *********

NO it won't :/ I'll try it one more time. You need to border bounce BEFORE the 13th of Sept 2018 <- That is the "enter before" date on your VISA.

You are confusing the "entry stamp" you got in your passport that is valid until 16 Dec 2018 with the validity of the VISA which is the 13th of Sept 2018

@Steven *********

no, it will not. That trip must be done before the September enter before date.

@Steven *********

which begs the question, seeing as you can get a FREE year more of stay out of the visa in your passport now by simply going to the border, stamping out of thailand, in&out of another country and back into thailand WHY would you waste the time jumping thru the hoops it takes to get a yearly extension at the immigration office? Border bounce before the 13th of Sept and get stamped in for another year.

Next year you can worry about your yearly extension of stay at the immigration office.

@Al ******

They wouldn't be on any extension, they have a current admitted until stamp that lets them stay until Dec 16th, and if they don't do anything their visa expires on the 13 of Sept and they'd either leave the country to go get a new visa or file for an extension of stay at the immigraiton office.

@Steven *********

, Okay, I see what you're saying, You have a current "admitted until" stamp that lets you stay until Dec 16, 2018. And if you don't exit/re-enter the country by the 13th of Sept (when your VISA expires) that's the stamp you're on and you'd apply for a yearly extension of stay at the immigration office by meeting the financail requirements and providing the required documentation>

BUT

IF you just go to the border, stamp out of thailand, stamp in and out of another country and stamp into Thailand BEFORE the 13th of Sept 2018, you'd be stamped into the country for a year from that date

Meaning you wouldn't need to apply for a yearly extension at the immigration office for another year.

@Steven *********

after your enter before date, assuming that you left the country, as you did, and got an additional year, your non imm o-a visa is dead and done. From that point you are on an extension of stay until December 2018, assuming you purchase a reentry permit.

@Steven *********

Dec? what do you mean?

@Steven *********

in order to get stamped in for another year you need to enter the country BEFORE 13 Sept 2018 <- that's the "enter before" date on the visa.

I do the same as you each year and I get a new non imm o-a multi entry visa via the LA Thai Consulate each time. Others will probably provide additional suggestions.

Steven Trujillo nope, not if you enter on your current visa.