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Period Of Visa Validity in Thailand Is Different From The Period Of Stay ????? be careful
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A common mistake which can be easily avoided.

Period of visa validity is different from the period of stay. The visa validity is a period during which a visa can be used to enter Thailand.
Generally, the validity of a visa from Vientiane/Laos or Phnom Penh/Cambodia is 3 month and shown in the visa.
The period of stay depends on the type of visa and is granted by an immigration officer upon arrival at the port of entry. The period of stay for a tourist visa does not exceed 60 days and can be extented at Thai immigration for 30days.

In case a short month , like February, is invloved or you overstayed you might loose the visa if you follow the extension of stay date.

Please always crosscheck the ENTER BEFORE date on the visa itself.


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Hands down, this is clearly the number ONE reason foreigners who have double entry tourist visas write on this forum and complain about ‘losing’ their second entry.

In their endeavor to max out the days they can stay in the glorious “Land ‘O Thais”, they neglect to pay attention to the “Enter BEFORE” date (sometimes it also says “must be utilized by”). They inevitably get a 30 day in-country extension on the first entry and then put off ‘running for the border’ until the very last day of the extension. Then when they show up at the border, cross over and come back they’re told ‘visa finish already’. Usually depending on nationality, the best they can get is the 15 day visa exempt stamp for a land crossing.

I have had all to many tourist call me and ask if this "can be sorted out" at Changwattana. The answer is always NO, as their original visa expired already. It is just an end of story type of problem.

I think this is a good post and should be mandatory reading to anyone here on a tourist visa while also playing the in-country extension game to max out your stay here!

  



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My "Utilize by" date on Visa is later in January

 

And there my thai visa posting pundits is the critical sentence in the above poster's post. As long as he exits the country BEFORE his "must be used by" date stamped ON the original visa at what ever thai embassy they got it at; the second entry will activate without a hitch.

It is the mixing up the two dates; One is how long the entire visa is valid for and is stamped ON the visa at the Embassy where you got it. The other is a permission to stay until stamp and is a seperate stamp you get inside the country at Thai Immigrations when you do a 30 day extension of stay. That stamp does NOT lengthen the original visa's validity by a single day!! It only lengthens the time allowed in country on that particular entry.

Given most double entry tourist visas that I have seen have a validty of 90 days, if people cut it to the last day of their first 60 days before they get their extensions, and then burn up all of those 30 days too before running for the border; sometimes the way the calander works out you come up a day late and a dollar short.



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