When you re-enter and have a non-imm visa, make sure that the stamp in your passport on re-entry has the same 'permitted to stay until' date as the date on your non-imm visa. If they stamp with a 'normal' permitted to saty for 30 days stamp, this over-rides any visa stay length previously issued - including retirement, non-O etc. and you will have to reapply for non imm visa all over again.
If a 30 day stamp has been issued, you have 24 hours to go back to Bangkok and get the stamp altered (although Bangkok immigration say it should be ok as long as you leave the country within the 30 days making sure the correct date is on the next re-entry).
However, HH immigration disagree and if your 90 day reporting is due after the expiry of the 30 day stamp and you go along to HH immigration, they will class you as an overstayer, fine you and require re-application for long stay visa.
And guess who didnt notice they had been stamped with a 30 day ptamp !!!!
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This is becoming a bit of a trend over the last couple of days. Are they learning from MIB? Lomu's advice on another thread about getting a detailed receipt and querying it with a higher authority seems sound.HH immigration disagree and if your 90 day reporting is due after the expiry of the 30 day stamp and you go along to HH immigration, they will class you as an overstayer, fine you
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Niggle,
It's probably just terminology, but once you've got an extension (say for retirement purposes), the original visa is "redundant". Again, the wrong terminology, but you can (and must) keep getting extensions on the basis of that original visa, even if it's 10 years old.
A "permitted to stay" stamp overrides a visa.
So, I can't quite understand what you're saying in your first couple of sentences.
You may be referring to "reporting". As BB has said, look at the other thread on this. I'm no expert, but I'm certain that once you re-enter Thailand, with a re-entry permit, operating on an annual extension of stay to the original Non O visa, Imm should recognise that fact and stamp you to report in a further 90 days (unless you leave the country again beforehand - with another re-entry permit). Hope that makes sense?
Unfortunately, it is your responsibility to check the stamp that you've got. Mistakes can happen, but the longer you leave it the more difficult it will be to rectify.
Can you clarify exactly what you mean in your opening sentences? Sorry, I'm being really dim today
It's probably just terminology, but once you've got an extension (say for retirement purposes), the original visa is "redundant". Again, the wrong terminology, but you can (and must) keep getting extensions on the basis of that original visa, even if it's 10 years old.
A "permitted to stay" stamp overrides a visa.
So, I can't quite understand what you're saying in your first couple of sentences.
You may be referring to "reporting". As BB has said, look at the other thread on this. I'm no expert, but I'm certain that once you re-enter Thailand, with a re-entry permit, operating on an annual extension of stay to the original Non O visa, Imm should recognise that fact and stamp you to report in a further 90 days (unless you leave the country again beforehand - with another re-entry permit). Hope that makes sense?
Unfortunately, it is your responsibility to check the stamp that you've got. Mistakes can happen, but the longer you leave it the more difficult it will be to rectify.
Can you clarify exactly what you mean in your opening sentences? Sorry, I'm being really dim today
Sure, what happened was that instead on stamping our passsports on re-entry with permitted to stay until .... Sept 2008, they stamped it as if we were arriving as tourists and given a 30 day permission to stay.
We accept we should have checked as we got the stamp but at the end of a journey we just took passports and went on.
All I am trying to point out is that you have to check they have stamped passport correctly as you go through passport control.
The post just intended to remind people to do this - we certainly will check next time !!
We accept we should have checked as we got the stamp but at the end of a journey we just took passports and went on.
All I am trying to point out is that you have to check they have stamped passport correctly as you go through passport control.
The post just intended to remind people to do this - we certainly will check next time !!
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Presumably the officer in question simply didn't see the visa?
Whether he did or not, it's always a good idea to open your passport to the page with the latest visa or extension before handing it to the immig officer, especially if it's quite full. He may not be particularly grateful, but at least then he can't mistake you for yet another tourist.
A lot of hassle for you, niggle.
Whether he did or not, it's always a good idea to open your passport to the page with the latest visa or extension before handing it to the immig officer, especially if it's quite full. He may not be particularly grateful, but at least then he can't mistake you for yet another tourist.
A lot of hassle for you, niggle.
This is the way
If I am not mistaken, if you have a re-entry permit, this is issued in Thailand.
You are therefore required to fill out the arrival/departure card at departures, including your visa number on the card, before leaving Thailand. The immigration officer will check this on your way out, and should clip a portion of this card to the passport, to be used when you return.
If you have not done this, there is a very high likelihood that you would have been ignored.
You are therefore required to fill out the arrival/departure card at departures, including your visa number on the card, before leaving Thailand. The immigration officer will check this on your way out, and should clip a portion of this card to the passport, to be used when you return.
If you have not done this, there is a very high likelihood that you would have been ignored.
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