Its added to your time. Theres no penalty for going early for tourist visa extensions

@Suzi **********

call the airline to see if they will allow you to board with you having the onward travel to Australia at the 55 day mark, not 30 while using visa exempt.

@Sel ****

Would recommended trying at head office in Silom to confirm this. Very good English spoken there. Asoke is central to tourists and they might have had a flood of tourists trying to get one and lately they were too busy and just said anything to get you to leave. I have heard of stories like that happening in pre-COVID days when a someone in a branch didn’t want to deal with foreigners

@Sel ****

that’s unfortunate if that’s the case that their requirements changed in March. I did the rounds last year asking at various banks and branches on a special tourist visa with a 9 month condo lease. Got knocked back many times but at all the Bangkok banks I went to they kept quoting the letter from embassy.

@Sel ****

did you have the document from your embassy?

@Steve ******

It would be a good idea to find out why you were specially declined the regular 30 day extension. Perhaps you needed to put "Tourism" as the reason for that extension if you asked for it first. I can kind of see why they might had declined you if you had stated the purpose for that extension was to see Thai family.

Go Bangkok Bank Silom branch. They deal with a lot of foreigners. Make sure you get a letter from your country's embassy (you may need to pay for this service) confirming your address in your home country and thailand. With that letter you shouldn't have any hassles.

@Steve ******

Are you certain about this? I follow the other Thai visa forum very closely and the experts there have discussed this extension at length. Perhaps its just visa exempt that its only 1 or the other. Will need to do some more digging. For single entry tourist visa the advice is 60 + 30 + 60 = 150 day

@Jeff ******

1900 baht for every extension type at thai immigration

@Steve ******

save the 60 visiting family extension to the very end of your stay - apply for the regular 30 day extension first