@Andy ****

best of luck with it sir, safe travels (y) Don't forget to fill out the online TDAC (Thailand Digital Arrival Card), you can do it from 3 days before your flight right on down to when you're standing in the arrival hall (they have kiosks there)

here's the link

@Tejas *********

right my mistake I didn't see that comment of yours

You're correct the issuing embassy can cancel it.

You have to have it done thru them and they would cancel it in the system

However it is so rare to have an embassy cancel a valid multi-entry visa that there are no reports of anyone doing it after they used the visa to enter thailand and started staying on the visa here 😕

@Alan ********

nope I don't do cut-n-paste answers 😮

I scratch write it all 🙂

@Tejas *********

you aren't gonna "cancel it after using it for 3 months" 🙁

You can't cancel that visa at all, it'll come up in the system as an active multi-entry visa and you won't be able to get a new visa until that one expires

Nope, UK passport holders don't get any 60 day arrival visa. 😮 😕

However with that being said; Brits can show up here without any visa and get stamped in for 60 days on free stamp on what's called a visa exempt entry. (y) 🙂

It's not a visa on arrival, it's not a visa at all, but it is a free 60 day entry stamp 🙂

AND

you can indeed extend one time for 30 days for 1900baht at the immigration office serving where you stay.

Take both passports to the immigration office they will move your stamps and put the new extension into the new passport

there is no problem at all getting a 30-day extension on your 60 day free entry stamp

More and more people are getting rejected after returning to the country with the reason; "first report needs to be done in person".

You are allowed to apply in person from two weeks before the due date until one week after the due date without a penalty.

So if you have an appointment on the 7th day after the due date you would be able to file the 90-day report that day and not be fined.

Whether you should slog over there before your appt and wait it out in the queue with the zombie horde is something only you can decide.

We've seen this happen a few times where embassies did not issue the DTV and instead issued another type of visa (keeping the difference in visa fees ;) )

The sad thing is that now you have to wait until this 6 month METV expires before you can apply for a new multi-entry Visa

I would say use the time you can get out of this METV and then apply for a DTV at another Thai consulate

Yes the re-entry permit counter is open at Suvarnabhumi Airport (& Don Mueang Airport too)

Now as far as how long it takes? That answer is; it takes as long as it takes :o There's no telling how many people are going to be ahead of you or if you'll be the only one walking up to the counter. I would say it usually doesn't take more than 20 minutes.

Remember they have two price points,

If you take the filled out tm8 form, a passport photo, copies of your visa, extension, previous entry stamp it's only 1,000 for a single entry

OR

You can just pay 1200 (a 200 baht surcharge) and give them your passport with nothing else

Although you don't mention the office you clearly used one of the offices that gives you "under review" for the Non-Imm visa that is as long as your current stamp, no matter when you applied for it.. 😮

Most offices (Bangkok for instance) give you a receipt that tells you when you return, which is 2 weeks after you've paid for the Non-Imm visa.

When you go back and they ink the Non-Imm visa in along with a new 90 day stamp you lose any time you have left on your free stamp/tourist visa entry.

SOME offices have you come back the day your current free stamp/tourist visa stamp expires and then ink in the Non-Imm visa along with the new 90 day stamp (I've see that at the offices in the south mostly)

Seeing as your stamp runs out Sunday (a day the office is closed) they just will have you come in Monday which is fine.

As long as you applied, turned in your documents, paid the 2000baht your application is under review and you just show up Monday the 15th to get the Non-Imm visa/90 day stamp inked in