You are far from the first person to have this happen.

What it sounds like, is that you failed to cancel your ED visa extension before you left the country.

You need to realize that just stamping out does not cancel an extension officially.

What's going to happen is, when you go to cancel the ED extension they will fine you 500 baht per day for every day that you didn't cancel it up to a maximum of 20K baht

It's not technically overstay, insofar as you cannot be banned for it, and your current entry stamp is still valid. It is a fine for failing to follow procedure in canceling an extension.

If you were on an extension based on higher education you could have got an additional year extension after you graduated under the ED Plus program and I don't know why your University didn't tell you that.

Anyway, you won't be banned from the country but you will be fined 500 baht per day.

Take the documentation from your University saying you stopped studying on XXX date to the immigration office that issued you your extension and cancel it officially.

@Henry *****

I'm not quite understanding what asking.

You renew the passport (before you apply for the next yearly extension) and as soon as you get the new passport you go transfer the stamps and then you go get the extension.

This is the transfer stamp form they use in Bangkok (if that's where you get your extensions) It lists the copies etc you need to transfer stamps when you get a new passport

𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗶 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?

No, that won't work

I am doubtful your child has any visa 😮 and it's far more likely they have a yearly extension of stay FROM an original O visa. (the stamp should say "extension of stay permitted until")

If they have the stamp I mentioned (the extension of stay stamp) once you get the new passport you take both passports to the immigration office that issued the extension and get the stamps transferred to the new one.

Then you just use the new passport when you do the application for the next yearly extension

@Tony ********

and as much as you don't want to deal with them it's going to take you slogging over to that office and seeing if they accept the 12 months of transfers of 40k a month for a marriage extension or not 😕

AND

if they don't you have no alternative but to bank the 400k for 2 months before you apply for the next extension 😮

You're wanting an answer from the group when it's only the immigration office you deal with that can give you the real answer

post on a Korat group and ask, someone else has tried to do it before you I'm sure 😛

As you correctly stated you're not on a Non-B visa now you're on an extension from it, and you wouldn't be applying for a Non-O visa based on marriage you'd just be changing the reason for your extension from one based on employment to one based on marriage to a thai

You can do it by cancelling the extension you're on based on employment with documentation from your employer saying you stop work on xxx date,

AND

You get all the documentation you need for the marriage extension (400K baht banked in a thai account for 2 months before you apply, all the copies, marriage documents, house book thai i/d etc bank letter, bank statement, photos, etc)

You go to the immigration office (with your thai wife as she's the reason you can get that extension) you cancel the extension based on employment, and you immediately apply for a new yearly extension based on marriage to a thai.

You'll pay 1900baht, they'll give you a 30 day under consideration stamp and then when that runs down you go back to get the year extension inked into your passport.

All you're doing is changing the reason for your extension not changing visa types.

OR

You could cancel your extension, then bounce out/back to get a 60 day free entry stamp and apply for the in country 90 day Non-O visa first for 2000baht at the immigration office then when that runs down you apply for the yearly extension.

1 - yes it is possible to switch reasons for your extension

2 - no, you wouldn't come back on a tourist visa, you'd come back free stamp entry on a 60 day visa exempt and then apply in country for the 90 day Non-O, then the year after that

3 - you need a TM30, lease, land lord i/d house book, etc

GO to the chiang mai immigration office and get the hand out listing the requirements for a year extension based on marriage to a thai.

This is a general list of what can be required it is NOT office specific so that's why I said go to the C/M office and get their hand out

@Tony ********

there is no requirement for you to keep 400k in the bank after you get your yearly extension based on marriage.

The requirement is only that you have 400k in a bank account for 2 months before you apply

Correct, if you get the year long, multi-entry Non-Immigrant Type OA (Long Stay) visa when you enter thailand you'll be stamped in for a year (or as long as your mandatory insurance is valid for up to a year) and you will only need to do 90 day reports (IF you're inside thailand 90 continuous days 🙂 )

Tony Handleythere is no requirement to keep the 400k bank money method in the account after the marriage extension is given.

The only seasoning requirement for that is that it's in the account two months before you apply for the extension

@Rok *******

pull the balance down to 400k for SURE so that there's no way they can use banked money method for this up coming extension

Your mistake was having BOTH the 800K still in the bank and having done a year of transfers of 65K baht a month. You have no idea what method the officer used when you got the extension you're on now

You can't tell if they used the monthly income method by transfer OR if they used the fact you'd banked the 800K 🙁

AND

sadly, it is my experience when people meet BOTH forms of proof of funds the immigration office usually picks banked money method 😮

SO you'd have to have the 800K in the bank for 3 months after this last extension (where you don't know what method was used) was granted and then you could drop it to 400K <- which will make SURE they couldn't use banked money next year when you get the new extension and you can for sure use the monthly income method