and you were on a 60 day free stamp entry or a 60 day tourist visa entry but were not allowed to apply for a 30 day extension even though you had a TM30 filed showing you were staying in an area served by that office?

Wow !!

@Lonnie *******

I think right now they're taking about 8-10 weeks for their approval process (most of that time is waiting for the background check to come in)

No problem starting your application and then coming here though, just make sure you select that you want to get the visa inked in at the LTR office once you're here in thailand NOT that you want to get it thru the embassy in your country.

@Marcell ********

did you have a TM30 filed showing you were staying in Samut Sakhon?

Shouldn't have a problem applying for an LTR visa directly thru the LTR/BOI website you liked to.

There's no problem applying for it while you're in the US or after you get here to thailand either. Just do the application thru the LTR website and select you want to get the visa inside thailand at the LTR office

Contact them via their facebook page, they are usually good about answering thru messenger

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Someone was confused. You need a minimum of 15 days left on your visa exempt entry or tourist visa entry to apply for the 90 day in country Non-O visa because of the review period.

BUT

Once you have the 90 day Non-O stamp to get a year extension you can do it any time you have 30 days or less left on your current stamp (meaning from 30 days before right on down until the day your stamp expires)

The down side in your situation is that IF you don't get the documentation all correct the day you apply you don't have any time left on your current stamp to re-group and apply again.

I would go to your immigration office well before your expiration date, get the hand out listing the requirements at that specific office (photos, bank documents, marriage documents, thai wife's documents, lease, TM30, copies, etc) because you got one chance to pull this off before you run on overstay at 500baht a day

This is a general list of requirements for an extension based on marriage to a thai. It is NOT office specific (which is why I said go get the one from your office)

Best of luck with it, you're fine, you're just running it right down to the wire time wise

@Jonathan *********

well spotted

If you're talking about renewing a passport while you're out of the country, when you come back you present both passports. The officer will stamp you in on the new passport and make a notation that your visa/extension re-entry permit is in the old passport

Then you go to your immigration office where you got the extension and get the stamps transferred

However if you're a person who holds passports from different countries you can't swap passports w/extension re-entry when you enter. You have to enter on the passport with the extension/re-entry stamps in it

Use the new passport number for the TDAC and don't write anything in the visa number (it's not a required field) just leave it blank

all they'll do is stamp a small entry stamp in your passport it will have the date you entered and the day your current extension expires and it will have Non-RE on the top as the visa class (meaning you entered on a re-entry permit from a Non-Imm visa/extension

@Matthew ********

I think you're mixed up on how it actually works 😕

Just because you applied online to file a 90 day report if it's rejected you still have to go in before the "window of opportunity" runs out (no more than 7 days late)

If you're rejected applying online doesn't count for anything 😮 and you'd still get the 2000baht fine if you went in person more than 7 days after the actual due date

Sadly

@Tim *********

it means you slog on over to what ever immigration office you're near when the 90 day report comes due and you ask them IF you can report there and how you do it living in a camper van.

You might have to actually check into a hotel that shows you're registered as staying in that province so you can use that immigration office

BUT

I'd get ready to be told NO you can't file a 90 day report at any office but the one where you got your extension

AND

then just resign myself to the fact that once I did get back to my province where you actually live you just are going to get a 2000baht fine for failure to file a 90 day report on time

That last scenario, where no place will let you file a 90 day report and you file a late one once you're back home happens quite a lot 😕