With a Laotian passport, you can enter on a 60-day visa exemption and receive a free stamp upon arrival. No visa is needed. This can also be extended with additional 30 days at your local immigration. So 90 days in total without a visa.

For furter stay you’ll have to provide more information.

@Dexx ****

Thanks for confirming. He doesn’t have a clue either

@Peter ********

?. I understand that you may be a bit concerned and in denial if you are on an illegal stay arranged under the table through an agent. At some point, however, this may catch up with you — and it could happen sooner than you realize or would like.

@Yo***

This is not a matter of opinion, as this practice does in fact take place, even if it may appear relatively recent. It is understandable that certain individuals, who have obtained their extension status through agents by means of borrowed funds, may feel anxious and therefore inclined to deny it. The consequences of any breach of the applicable conditions are, however, subject to the discretion of the competent immigration office. Even where an extension of stay for one year has been granted, the holder remains under a continuing obligation to comply with the requirements attached to that permission. A failure to do so renders the individual technically in overstay. Moreover, it is beyond dispute that the immigration office retains the authority to revoke an extension prior to its expiry. The precise consequences in each case will depend on the determination of the relevant immigration office. Ultimately, it is a matter solely between the individual concerned and the immigration authority having jurisdiction.

@Nongnuch *******

No, the stay granted by the visa is an independent right that continues even after the visa itself has expired, provided you were stamped in beyond the visa’s validity period. However, you lose your right to re-enter once the visa expires. So, if you leave without having physically purchased a re-entry permit, you will not be allowed back in, and the remaining stay will be cancelled. This is very technical, though. I don’t think we should make too much of a point about it now, as it may confuse the OP.

@Nongnuch *******

not correct, he will not be stamped back in on the admitted stay after the visa is expired.

@Nongnuch *******

No, he can still leave the country and cancel the stay after one year has passed since the visa was issued, even if, for personal or practical reasons, he was stamped in with a few days’ validity remaining. It is the visa itself that grants multiple entries, not the stay it provides. That is why you must also purchase a re-entry permit even if you are in Thailand after the visa itself has expired.

So what

@Nongnuch *******

is explaining

@Pete ******

is that you cannot cancel your visa or stay during the first year as long as it remains valid. If you leave shortly before the visa expires, you can apply for a Non O as previously explained.

If you are already in your second year of stay based on your Non O-A visa, you can also simply leave the country and cancel the stay, provided that you have not purchased a re-entry permit at immigration.

@Nongnuch *******

I understood that the OP had been in Thailand on a Non O-A for some time. If it is still within the first year, he naturally has to wait until this is over before he can change, as it is a multiple-entry visa.

And it’s not only a multiple re-entry permit, it’s multiple entries in the visa itself.

@Peter ********

People are asked to show their bank book at their first 90-day report after having done an extension. Everyone naturally understood that the bank book was not related to the 90-day report itself. Save your BS.

@Peter ********

Sorry, but it’s probably just you who don’t have sufficient overview.