Will I get stamped in for one more year upon returning to Thailand with an expiring PE visa?

@Ul**

now as far as your situation in your post, YES you will most definitely get stamped in for a whole year as long as you enter the country on or before the date that PE visa expires.

BUT if you needed to leave/re-enter the country during this year stamp you're going to get (after the visa expires) you WILL need to buy a re-entry permit (single re-entry for 1000baht or multiple re-entry for 3800baht) A re-entry permit will not add any time to the year stamp you're going to get, BUT it will let you exit/re-enter and get stamped in for that stamp expiration date

Guess I'll try again next week, sorry guys :/

I was at Chaengwattana today and asked TWO different supervisors about it AND I had pictures of a 5 year PE visa and a year long entry stamp from using it.

Now i did NOT get to speak to the Elite representative who is stationed out there

BUT

The people I did talk to are senior people who RUN sections and they said. And not that it matters but the entire conversation was in thai (yes I actually can speak coherent enough thai to talk about visas, entry stamps, etc) :P

This is what they said;

The visa is valid for 5 years from the date it's issued

it is good for unlimited entries during that 5 year period

EVERY entry will get you stamped in for a new year

Exiting and Re-entering just prior to the VISA expiring will get you a new one year admitted until stamp that remains valid even after the visa expires. However IF you are going to exit/re-enter the country after the visa expires you need a re-entry permit to keep that stamp 'alive' so you're stamped in until the end of it when you come back.

They did say your PE privileges run out when the visa does (or sooner sometime depending on when they actually activated your membership) and you couldn't use the Elite counter to do 90 day reporting, OR get the pick up delivers from the airport or use the elite lounge IN the airport OR use fast track immigrations stamping in

I go out to immigrations next week again and I hope to meet with the elite representative then.

Keep in mind these people are immigration officers (they know visas and they know entry stamps and they know extensions) they are NOT elite sales people or elite representatives.

That's all I have sorry, so we will have to wait until next week to hash it out any more

@Tod ********

.. no offense taken. Genuinely happy you have the passion to get to the bottom of it

@Peter *******

, please know I meant no disrespect to you, I trust the elite people NOT at all, and I trust the immigration people just a little more than that.. :O

Which is why I said IF you're going to renew you need to get a hold of them and hash it out

BUT

if you're not you need to forget talking to them or their representative out at Chaengwattana (who I am meeting Thursday) and just get the last year entry stamp that visa affords you under the terms of the visa and cut the elite people loose.

I would say IF you intend to renew the PE visa get ahold of Thai Elite NOW to negotiate a good discount for re-upping.. Other wise ignore them and just get the last year and find a new way to stay after that..

You will be stamped in for a whole new year BUT remember any of your benefits from the PE visa plan will expire when your membership does. So they won't take you to from the airport, won't do your 90 day reporting AND if you need to leave once the visa expires you would need to buy a re-entry permit so that your entry stamp doesn't cancel when you stamp out.