read the pinned post

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well you're going to need some TM30 and lease to file for the new extension maybe do a 6 month one.

I honestly don't know what the minimum lease term is to get a year extension out at the main immigration office on Chaengwattana Road. I've had people who "lived" (long stayed) at hotels use them as where they stayed with a letter saying they were a long stay client.

You might have to head on out there and ask in Section L-1 (the section that does extensions for marriage/retirement) in that first cubby hole on the right as you walk into that section, it's the "document check" cubby and they will know for sure what the answer is OR they'll ask an officer

Everyone pay attention 😮 this is to get a yearly extension based on marriage to a thai at the main immigration office here in Bangkok at the government complex on Chaengwattana Road (In section L-1) 🙂

Your office might or might not require the same thing and that's why we recommend you slog on out to your office and get their list o' documents for what ever visa/extension you're getting well before you're going to attempt it 😛

Thanx for th

@is **************

ott glad it worked out for you

not really much you can do about it I mean if you have to just leave, then do it.

You can deal with the penalty of not cancelling the extension before you left, if/when you come back and want to get a long term extension

@Alexey ********

really though, thanx for the update about it, can't hurt to let people know. With 80 offices in the country though you might want to edit your post and say it was the Phuket office in it 🙂

@Alexey ********

I can probably count on one hand with fingers left over the number of DTV extensions people have gotten from Phuket, 😮

They seem hellbent on finding ANY reason to tell people to bounce out/back rather than doing their jobs, vetting the documents, and giving the extensions 🙁

@ Stuart ******

ng you heard about this at all?

Just curious, what office did you try to get the extension at?

That is not correct, dunno what office you applied for the extension at but there is NO RULE that says you have to apply for an extension BEFORE your current stamp runs out

Most offices allow you to apply for an extension when you have 30 days or less left on your stamp (Bangkok, Chiang Mai and a few others allow you to do it when you have 45 days or less left)

You can apply for an extension right up to the day your current stamp runs out.

Sorry you couldn't get the extension, they just pulled that imaginary rule out of their back side

Glad you bounced out and back, You're correct the TDAC is easy to do and you don't even have to fill in any field that doesn't have an asterisks next to it.

You need to go to the website of the thai consulate you're thinking of applying at and READ THE PROCESSING TIME

All the consulates have eVisa processing time posted, so pick a consulate, go to their website and read how long that consulate is taking to process eVisas 🙂

@Wenjing ******

works like this

go to a nearby country

apply online thru the eVisa system

WAIT in that country until the visa is approved or rejected