What should I do, I entered on the 24th of December 2024 and 180 days would be 22nd of June, I ajve booked my flight for this day from bangkok back to my home country.

I have just noticed my passport is stamped to 21st June I'm guessing mistakenly. This is obviously today and I am debating overstaying a day as immigration is shut today and tomorrow and my flight is tomorrow. I have asked the airline about changing this but it is not possible.

What would peoples advice be would 1 day overstay due to a miscalculation of the days on the stamp, to be clear 180 days from entry including day of entry is 22nd of June, be a serious issue if so how?

Also what will happen if I try to board the flight while having the 1 day overstay

I got my visa approved in Phnom Penh. I'm sharing how it is arriving in Thailand, because before i had blacklisted, it expired 2 months ago.

So at the airport no questions asked.

At the immigration at the airport no questions asked at all.

Much better if someone overstayed before to get a proper visa, because the immigration office like this, they don't like the visa exempt.

Trying to find out whats the best way forward:

I've been in thailand for 5 months (1 visa run with short overstay). Tried to open a company and get a wp but got scammed (hence the overstay).

im considering going for a few months to bali, applying there and coming back on DTV.

i have the money in the bank, but my income is very unstable as i do some group coaching twice a year and thats where most of my income comes from

i have my own company, could pay myself a salary

any advice or things i should read on? would be greatly appreciated. im a south american national but also have european passport if it makes any difference.

Hello, I have 90d Non-O until 8. march and leaving Thailand 23. march and I'm wondering which options I have. I was on immigration and they said one year or 7 days extension. I can not provide documents for one year but not sure about 7 as I didn't ask because I need 15 days. I planed go do border bounce which is 7k and lost hard day or two so I'm now wondering about to do 7day extension and then pay for 8 days overstay on the airport which seems to be still less or equal to 7k with saved energy and time for border bounce. What do you think about that or do I have another options? Would it be ok in the Samui airport if I come with 8days ovestay?

Hello, my daughter is currently on a training scholarship at Thanyapura Sports Resort in Phuket. They originally had her enter Thailand on a non-ed immigrant visa (I think is what it was called). She had it extended and was in Phuket about a year and a half. She traveled to a competition in Europe in December and as the paperwork for her contract renewal was delayed, she ended up on overstay for a couple weeks; she paid the fee when she left. She now has a US passport - originally was on a Micronesian passport as she's dual citizen. Thanyapura had told her to go to Laos and apply for the DTV, which she did, but she was denied. They said the reason was lack of 500,000 in her account, though the training resort had provided a letter for her to confirm her financial support; the resort said that's all she needed, but apparently they were wrong. We are at a loss now as to what visa she should apply for. Her current contract is for a year. She is back in Micronesia and the e-visa site says US citizens applying in Micronesia must apply online through the Beijing embassy.

Any suggestions as to what visa she should apply for? Or should she just return on visa-exempt? Or is it a big risk of being denied entry because of the previous overstay (though on a different passport)?

Question.

I have a DTV visa valid until 2030. I entered Thailand in December 2024 on a 60 day tourist visa (my DTV had been applied for several weeks before, but not yet issued).

The 60 visa stamp in my passport expires soon, but the paper printout DTV is of course still valid.

I am due to fly out of Thailand in about 2 weeks time.

Do I need to do anything?

Will the expired visa in my passport cause an issue or will it be covered by my e-visa?

Thanks in advance

Hi guys, Looking for advice regarding visa extensions for children under 14. I am currently on a 60 day visa upon arrival and need to extend for another 30 days. My children have one overstay stamp in their passports but weren't fined or not let in or out from our last visit, we plan to keep coming to Thailand over the next few years and don't want to cause any problems in the future but also don't want to pay if not necessary. Thanks for all your replies :)

Question, for many years i been on the non B then covid close the business and changed to non O based on my kid.

However now i am trying to obtaint he non b again. located on Koh samui. they dont let me change from non o kid based to non b. so made me fly out and back in (singapore) to enter on a tourist to be able to apply for non b withouth leaving. however on the day of signature they found a overstay of a signle day. and didnt want to sign. pushing me to go on visa run again to get a new tourist on a blanco page in my passport but i refused to participate in another formula 1 mini van to malay.

im looking to fly out to vientiane, but unfortunatly they booked up with apointments till july. Is there any other embassy's you recommened if you got all your papers in order. ( the company inviation, the education certficate the w32 etc etc)

ah and the internet says that you could walk into a imigration changing to non b but ofcourse in reality it not work or are there any places in bangkok that could do this ?

Look forward to your replies

On a HAPPY NOTE. 😁

WE ALL RECEIVED THANKS today..

with an Update..

For the helpful advice received today from our Members and Moderators.

Many forum members were following the post.

...of the forum member who earlier today POSTED he was on overstay 14 days.... ASKED for HELP.

...he followed all of our Advice...

...went to his Thai Immigration office today...

...was granted the 30 days extension of stay that he should have obtained 14 days ago.

Paid the 500 Thai baht daily fine and STAMPED IN for 30 days from his ORIGINAL ENDING DATE..

Thankfully, the young man can now enjoy the remaining time in Thailand and return home as planned.

Moral of the story...

Pay Attention to your STAMPED in ending date received on arrival. And go your local Thai Immigration office to get your 30 day extension of stay on time... NOT on OVERSTAY.

Comments Closed.

We see a number of posts from people that have applied for a visa from an embassy in their home country but have not received it by the time their flight is booked for. (France and Germany are you listening?). Because they come from a country that allows a visa exempt entry they wing their way to Thailand and then get a free 30 day visa exempt entry stamp.

A few days later the visa they applied for appears in their email. Now they have a valid visa for X number of days and want to know what to do to get the X number of days they’ve been granted. They’re already in Thailand. So they head to an immigration office and say they want their visa activated to give them their X number of days.

It doesn’t work that way. The visa they have gives them the right to stay in Thailand for X number of days from entry. They have to leave Thailand and re-enter to activate the visa.

Depending on the visa they have and the number of days they are looking to stay in Thailand for it may be beneficial to extend the 30 days they got on entry at an immigration office and then leave and re-enter to activate the issued visa, or just leave within the 30 days and re-enter to activate it. There is nothing they can do within Thailand to “switch over” to that visa. They need to leave and then come back.

If you are issued an evisa from an eligible country print it out and hand it to the immigration officer when you enter Thailand. Although the fact that you have an evisa is visible to the officer on their immigration system they may miss that and not realise you have one and stamp you in visa exempt regardless that you have a valid visa.

And ALWAYS check the stamp the officer has given you at the entry desk. Humans make mistakes. I see numerous cases where people have come to immigration and said that they were stamped incorrectly on entry and are now on overstay. The onus is on you to check.