You can only renew your Thai license in person at a DLT office. Thailand doesn't really do anything online

They just started doing evisa a couple of weeks ago. Not many people have used it that can report about it.

Yes. The news is that it's postponed indefinitely while they figure it out.

First of all, I doubt you are talking about visa on arrival. Visa on arrival is where you apply for and pay for a visa at the airport and you get a 15-day stamp for Thailand. You are most likely talking about visa exempt, which is not a visa at all, it's just a free entry stamp for 60 days.

They have been cracking down severely on people who abuse visa exempt and tourist entries in general. Each immigration officer has full discretion on who they will and won't allow into Thailand. Some seem to use a general 180 day cutoff as to when it seems like you are trying to live in Thailand without a proper visa. Also anyone who has an ED visa at all in their passport is likely to face extra scrutiny and have very high odds of being pulled out of line and questioned about their ED visa, why they are coming to Thailand now, etc. It would be HIGHLY advisable not to fly into Thailand if you are just finishing an ED visa, as this is the most abused visa type currently and is just asking for trouble. Use a land border bounce agency to drive you to a land border and facilitate you leaving and returning without any issues, but only AFTER you have already cancelled your education extension. Some land borders will not let you exit if you have an un-cancelled ED extension and no re-entry permit.

Or if you want to do it yourself, go to Udon Thani and cross into Laos at Nong Khai and then return there. Once again, cancel your ED extension first as you are required to do this. But that land border is known as one of the easiest in Thailand.

@Alex **********

it doesn't sound like you have enough time to get a new visa at this point if your flight is next week. It's already the weekend so even if you file a new visa application it won't even be looked at until Monday.

Just forget about it. If you have an Italian passport you'll receive a 60 day visa exempt stamp if you don't have a visa. That's the same amount of days as if you did have a tourist visa.

Make sure you have your hotel and flight booked for the right amount of time, because they now have an 11 working day processing time.

No way to say if it will affect anything in the future, as all of those decisions are made at the time by the immigration officer dealing with it. It's certainly not ideal to have an overstay stamp in your passport, but it shouldn't affect your current stay other than the fine.

It costs a lot more. In the US it was hundreds of dollars more than the 50,000 baht that is advertised. Similar at any other embassy.

Visa wise not a huge difference but you have to carry the printed visa with you for the next 10 years since it's not in your passport.

@Toni *******

wouldn't really change much of anything. People go to Thailand don't care about going to Laos