There you go James Buchanan, from the UK. So free entry plus 1900 baht (£45-50) extension. Or £25 visa plus £10 return fee, via postal charge which incurs a fee, so say about £40. Plus, £7 odd for the royal mail special delivery. Total about £47, then don't forget the £5 for photos from a machine in the UK. Unless you wanna gomto London and just pay the £25...but lose a days work and pay travel fees!!

Extending the visa in country is a pain abit, but pretty easy really. If I ever need to extend, I arrive at the office at 8am, i'm jumping on my bike again at 9.30am. Of course if your staying more than 60 days then the SETV is definitely worth getting, otherwise I'd say there's not really alot in it moneywise.

Of course, the single entry vis from the UK saves you the hassle of extending when you are over there. It's also probably a good idea given the current situation with people getting hassled at the airport.

I would suggest the 60day from home if you have time. I

The visa itself is £25, plus £10 fee for them to return it, so that's £35 by postal order already, which incurs a small fee so say £40. Then add the £5 which it costs to get photos from the machine in England. Then add the special delivery price, about £7.

This is more than 1000 baht.....

Or, take a day off work and go to London embassy, already lost £200 for a days work, then ass the travel fees.

If we round this all to about £50, them multiply that by 40 (baht), the worst exchange rate we could think of, it would still be 2000, so more expensive than the extension, even if only marginal.

So the SETV is is slightly more expensive or massively more expensive, depending on whether you post it or take a day of work. Either way, if I was plannin to spend less than 60 days in Thailand I'd probably just waster 2 hours one morning and 1900 baht at the immigration office In Chiang Mai. It's so simple and easy, get there at 8am, out the door at 9.30 am.

If you are from a country that can get 30 day Visa Exemption at the airport, then do this and extend by 30 days in country. Cheaper and easier than applying for a 2 month single entry visa in your home country (well, in the UK anyway)

The recent enforcement of an old rule regarding a show of 20k baht cash should be taken in to consideration when border bouncing (even though visa exemption is only supposed to be 10k!!). what do you think

@Tod ********

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I'm not sure ofnthe original posters situation, but assuming she's western it could be similar.

My missus is sort or displaced person in Thailand, a Shan person. And I'm British, so in the top right corner of the birthday certificate, under nationality, it translates roughly to "born of no nationality". I've heared of poth parents are of some Burmese ethnic minority origin sometimes they won't give out a birth certificate at all. My name is on the certificate 3 times and I signed it, hers only once which ia also odd. He can stay untill he's 7 or he leaves the country with that ticket. Then there is no overstay penalty for under 18s, but then I suppose of he just stayed in Thailand and never applied for British citizenship then they'd have nowhere to deport him anyway 😂. He can't get a Burmese passport because he wasn't born there. And the UK passport agency are being difficult because he has no photo ID to prove who he is!!

I'm assuming I'll be able to sort out some sort of ID for him in Thailand, even if it's the "non-thai citizens ID"............

What a headf***

Not necessarily

@Mar***

. My Son has a Thai birth certificate, but is not allowed a Thai passport.

Yep the stamp in the passport is ok. Annoyingly I had a photocopy of it all before it got water damaged, but I can't find it anywhere. Thanks

The stamp has washed off my departure card, not completely but mostly. Will I have problems extending my tourist visa tomorrow?

Thanks everyone a yway for the help and advice.

Ok, update, it says 31 May, only the 3 is washed off abit (from the flood), my friend pointed out that it says 31. I should've gone to specsavers.