>Can I apply for a 30-day visa extension

You can apply for a 30 day extension of stay when you have at least 30 days remaining on your current "admitted to" stamp (45 days remaining for some immigration office).

>then a 60-day covid extension (which expires on March 25th)

If you apply for the 30 day extension of stay, you would be able to stay until May 3rd. Depending on the immigration office, you *MAY* be able to apply for the 60 day extension of stay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19 if you're within the 45 day time period. HOWEVER...

1. That extension of stay is optional, and does not need to be granted AND;

2. That extension of stay begins on the date you apply for it. If you apply for it on March 25th, and it's approved, then you can only stay until May 24th.

Sadly, I don't see a reason to keep commenting open on this post. For questions about this extension of stay, please read my post at

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Thank you

@Daniel *******

Sadly, "quick border runs" no longer exist (at least, for Cambodia). For Cambodia, you'll have to get an eVisa, which takes 3 business days.

Can you border bounce, return to Thailand, and apply for a 60 day extension of stay based on unable due to COVID-19? It is not a strategy I would recommend. Here's the potential time frame in doing a border bounce and getting the extension of stays (Note: I'm also excluding the timeframe of acquiring a Thai Pass)

Assuming a person decides they want to bounce today:

1. A visa on arrival is no longer being sold to enter Cambodia, however, the eVisa is. The eVisa takes 3 business days, per their official eVisa site. Earliest date the eVisa would be approved is Wednesday, February 23rd.

2. A person leaves Thailand for Cambodia on Thursday, February 24th. The last I heard a person needs to stay at least one day in Cambodia.

3. A person returns to Thailand on Saturday, February 26th, and do one day in a test-n-go facility. They are stamped in for 29 days, or until Sunday, March 27th.

4. On Monday, February 28th, a person goes to an immigration office and purchases a 30 day extension of stay based on tourism. That would let them stay until April 26, 2021

CAN A PERSON APPLY FOR A 30 DAY EXTENSION OF STAY BASED ON UNABLE TO TRAVEL DUE TO COVID-19 IN THAT TIMEFRAME?

MAYBE.

If the immigration office requires a person to have at least 30 days remaining, then an 60 day Extension of Stay Based on Unable to Travel due to COVID-19 can not be applied (since there’ll be more then 30 days remaining).

If an immigration office requires a person to have at least 45 days remaining, then a 60 day Extension of Stay Based on Unable to Travel due to COVID-19 can be applied. If the Extension of Stay is approved, then a person can stay until May 24th .

BUT….

This extension of stay is an optional stamp, and the immigration office does not need to issue the extension of stay. Approach this extension of stay as a bonus - if you get it, great; if not, then it’s not a big problem.

@Florian **************

won’t work if the poster needs to do anything at the immigration office

@Julika **************

depends on the immigration office. I would bring it with you (see my pinned/ features post for more information)

@Luke *********

The options available to stay in Thailand depends on your purpose in Thailand. Generally, the following common visas/ extension of stays are acquired by people wanting to stay in Thailand. :

- Non-O Visa/ Extension of stay based on marriage to a Thai national

- Non-B Visa/ Extension of stay based on employment

- Non-O Visa/ Extension of stay based on being over 50 ("retirement)

- Non-O Visa/ Extension of stay based on raising half-Thai child

- Non-ED visa/ Extension of stay based on studying

- Elite Thai visa (5 years to 20 years, price starts at 600K THB)

- BOI Investment visa (starts at 20M THB, if my memory serves me right)

If you have further questions about the process on acquiring these visas/ extension of stays, please make your own post

Your most up-to-date source would be your local Thai consulate. There's 5 Thai consulates in the USA (if my memory serves me right), and the consulate you'll use is the consulate within your region.

I have no idea what you mean by "rulings", but according to the official announcement, starting January 25th, people who's most recent visa is a non-immigrant visa (or visa on arrival) no longer qualify for a 60 day extension of stay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19.

If you apply for a 60 day extension of stay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19, it will be rejected, and you will have 7 days to leave Thailand.

Thank you for the update. Remember, Bilateral Agreements are one of the "approved" 60 day extension of stay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19 countries