You'e probably going to need longer period booked, or like someone says, send a letter explaining you are going to be looking for a more permanent house when you are in the country. Not sure the logic of requiring you to arrange accommodation for 6 months, when next day they may reject your application -but that's the requirement... 🤷‍♀️

@Yanko ***

Samui Airport.

@Shannon *****

So true, sadly. I had people telling me blatantly my visa is now canceled (they are on a non B and have no idea about DTV visas), I had people telling me to urgently go see the same immigration officer like TOMORROW in the local immigration office because am in big trouble (as if I was here now illegally and breaking some sort of law?), I had people telling me I am in trouble because now I am only a tourist (and I said yes, but with the DTV, I am still a tourist in Thailand), or someone saying that my only option is to travel back to Spain and physically show up at the Thai Embassy there for them to transfer numbers manually, when it tuns out DTV visa cannot be transferred, according to Thai Official Authorities... I mean, yes the situation is not common indeed, but seriously the fact is that no one knows because it is quite unprecedented so... 🙄

@Shannon *****

I see! I can always try first asking at my local immigration office then tomorrow. I doubt they will know what to do though since they only handle tourist visa extensions basically, but who knows. Otherwise, then maybe it is worth a trip to BKK if your situation gets resolved! Would you be so kind to let me know please? 🙏🙏

@Shannon *****

Well, that's kind of a trip from where I am I would only consider to make if someone told me that this is right course of action. Now, showing up there with a question that potentially no one knows how to solve (judgin by all posts in this grouo), no, not something I had in mind really...

@John *********

Yeah, actually this is my plan next week recommended by an visa agent. Hopefully someone realises it was their mistake in their first place, and ammends my stamp without asking me to leave the country and come back

@John *********

I am hoping this is an okay solution, but given the experience I am now fearing next officer trying to question why I got 60-days visa exempt stamp instead of the normal 180 days for my visa and that would lead to again getting stuck at the airport with dozens of questions. Or even worse that someones comes up with the thought that those 60days have canceled my visa and they send me back to reapply for a new one. Then E-visa people don't give me a new one because they say I already hold one. At this point I believe every surreal scenario is actually more than possible... 🥴🤷‍♀️

She actually did herself on the phone, and her supervisor did not seem to have a clue either. I was there stuck for an hour and a half, and the result was those 60 days, which to be honest by then I was only happy they let me in, since yeah for a minute I thought they would not even let me in at all

@John *********

I showed EVERYTHING: I had my DTV printed, and my two passports. She also showed me she had my DTV visa data on-screen. I tried to explain that as far as I knew everyone with the same situation was being stamped on the new passport just showing both, and they were okay. And yet she ignored my old passport and did not even want to see it. Just kept going on and on about the passport number being different to the one linked to the visa.

Following. I am in a very similar situation. In my case, I did not lose my passport. I changed it because it would have expired while being away. I came back to Thailand bringing both but the IO failed to know what to do with that, and only gave me 60 days visa exempt stamp, telling me to contact e-visa people once in the country and had them link the new passport to the visa, when the actual right action was to just stamp the new passport. I emailed them as told, but after 3 weeks no one ever got back to me, and whenever I ask everyone says different thing, because the reality is that no one knows for a fact... I'm utterly clueless on how to proceed next. So hey please if you manage to get an answer from someone, do please share any updates. I will do the same 🙏