Anonymous participant 598 totally false, there is no negative impact from having an "under 24 hours overstay fine waived" stamp in your passport, none at all

You can wait it out (especially seeing as today is a holiday and immigrations is closed 🙂 )

If it's not approved (or rejected) by the due date, you would have to go in person (cancel that pending application online)

If your due date is the 28th of Oct, you have until the 4th of Nov to file a 90 day report in person. so plenty of time to see what happens with the online report AND to get in to do it yourself if it's rejected or not approved in time

@Josh *******

where are you getting this nonsense about the "90 day clock" and it having anything to do with you getting a drivers license?

I don't think Phuket has a rule that you have to have done a 90 day report to get a certificate of residence.

DTV_BegPecker a certificate of residence is gotten from immigrations and you can get one even if you're here on a 60 day free stamp entry

show BOTH passports when you stamp out, because your entry stamp is in the old passport, they will stamp you out on the new passport and make a notation that your entry stamp was in the old one

Remember in Phuket you can apply for an extension when you have 45 days or less left on your current stamp, they ADD the extension to your current expiration date so no need to burn your stamp down, you don't lose time applying early

Wouldn't even waste your time talking to the immigration officers (or their engrish speaking volunteers) about getting a Thai Drivers License on a DTV because

Immigrations doesn't have a clue about it as they don't issue drivers licenses 😛

To get a drivers license from the Dept of Land Transport you need a certificate of residence, you need a medical certificate from a clinic, you need your passport/visa and current d/l from your country

The only thing I can think is that if you don't have much time left on your current stamp is that immigrations won't sell you a certificate of residence <- which means bounce out/back get a new 180 day stamp THEN apply for the certificate of residence and after that go to the DLT to get the thai drivers license

you can't "go to an embassy in person" 🙁

Ever since all the thai consulates in the world switched to the eVisa online web-portal, you apply online

So it works like this,

you go to vietnam,

log into the eVisa online system,

apply online,

pay online

then

wait in vietnam until the visa is approved,

once they email you the approval print out the attached PDF file (as that is your visa), and give it along with your passport to the officer when you stamp in to thailand

One warning people,

You cannot mention using agencies or agents on this group.

Not at all, not in passing.

That's just how the group is set up.

and at this point I would imagine that Peter Williams understands how that "60 day free entry" stamp (visa exempt) works

thanx one and all and safe travels for Peter (y)

Nope you cannot 😕

While you don't say where you are in thailand, (as in which of the 80+ offices you use) the soonest any office lets you apply for a new extension of stay would be 45 days before the current stamp expires. (Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Buriram, Phuket, Samut Prakan and a few others allow the 45 days before)

Most other offices allow you to do it when you have 30 days or less left on your current stamp