@Tracy ********

DTV visas are issued from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They won’t have access to previous entry history from a previous passport.

@Tracy ********

I’ve not heard of any issues of anyone applying for a DTV with a previous overstay stamp. What embassy or consulate did you apply at?

@Tony ********

Sure. You’d get a 60 day visa exempt stamp on entry.

@Tony ********

In theory you could. But many offices will issue a “under consideration” stamp on the initial Non O conversion and ask you to return on X date. If you can factor that in on your time left then go for it.

There will probably be a number of comments on here from people that have overstayed and had no issues paying the fine at the airport and no repercussions returning to Thailand with an overstay stamp.

Except there may be a few that will tell you of their woes on securing a visa for another country. When said country sees an overstay stamp from Thailand they may reject you on that basis. Again it sounds overkill and doomsday type of stuff but there are posts from people previously that this stuff has happed to. Get an extension. Avoid the potential. Or roll the dice and pay the fine at the airport.

Never knowingly overstay. Yes your airline changed the flights but it’s you that would be “breaking the law”.

Thousands of people overstay by a day or so (willingly or just by accident) and just pay the fine at the airport of 500 baht per day.

Some are caught whilst on overstay because of a traffic stop or accident or any number of reasons. Then a whole can of worms can open up. Worst case scenario being sent to an immigration detention centre and deported from Thailand and banned for 5 years. Sounds like overkill for a couple of days overstay. It is. But it could happen.

Go to your local immigration office and get an extension. It’ll cost you 1,900 baht but it will alleviate the potential risk. It’s 900 baht more than the fine at the airport but could be a life saver from the worst case scenario.

Apply for a non immigrant visa prior to coming. That way you should be able to get a Thai bank account relatively easily.

Each office will have different requirements to get the one year extension of stay but here are the requirements of the Phuket office. They probably won’t be too much different for yours - but they could be.

@Andrew ******

I can guarantee you 99% that you have never transferred a visa from an old passport to a new one. The 1% is there because of if it was a visa issued in country it could have been transferred.

I suspect what you are referring to is transferring an extension of stay stamp put in your passport by immigration in Thailand and having that transferred.

Many people confuse the fact that they came here with a visa and now have a stamp that it’s still the “visa” that they are on. They aren’t. That visa was used and is done and dusted. They are on extension of stays granted by immigration. Those stamps are transferable.

@Gerry *******

Good luck trying one of those with a new passport and a visa from a old passport. Perhaps miracles will happen. I won’t hold my breath that long.

@Gerry *******

The PDF is 100% the visa. The sticker in your passport - if obtained at a consulate that doesn’t yet use the evisa system - is the visa. Neither can be transferred to a new passport.

There may well be a notification on the immigration computer system about a valid visa in an old passport but 100% I wouldn’t rely on the immigration officer either checking that or even interested in it.

You use both passports until the visa expires.