Hi everyone. I went to immigration to apply for my first covid extension visa (I was on work permit and visa until a couple days ago) and I was given the under consideration stamp. I was told to return in 7 days with either a flight out of Thailand or a person from a new job prospect, only then will I get the 60 days.
Has anyone encountered anything like this?
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A user seeking advice on their covid extension visa application received an 'under consideration' stamp at a Thai immigration office. They must return in 7 days with either a flight out or a job prospect to receive a full 60-day extension. Commenters share both caution about using the specific office and suggestions, such as renting a flight ticket to meet requirements. The conversation highlights the challenges of covid extension visa applications and the discretionary nature of approval by immigration offices.
My only suggestion is to to rent a plane ticket simply to meet their requirements. You can Google "onward travel ticket" and for about $10 they will give you a fully valid plane ticket that you can use for whatever purpose you need, and then they will cancel it.
I would get one for exactly 60 days away since if you got it earlier you might risk them only stamping you until the date of your flight. That gives you 60 days to try and figure something else out or figure out how to use a different office for your next extension.
60 days away as in the maximum amount of time they can possibly get, whatever date is applicable to them.
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Brandon ************
These onward travel tickets are usually used for visa purposes like when you want to get a tourist visa and plan on switching to another Visa in a country, but they want to see your plans to leave the country within the original Visa duration. It should work for your case as well though.
I want to caution EVERY person who uses the Samut Prakan immigration office for covid extensions.
IF they give you a hard time, or tell you to do xxx or yyy and come back AND you take the under consideration stamp from them you're locked into them win, lose, or draw and no other office will touch that 'open' stamp until you go back to close the loop on it at the Samut Prakan office.
I would say IF you use that office and they give you a hard time just walk out and look for an alternate way to get a covid extension from a different immigration office. DO NOT let them rope you into using them by taking that under consideration stamp from them if you can help it.
Tod *********
That is NOT a user friendly office to deal with and sadly I have no advice as far as what you should do ๐
Remember those covid extensions are totally discretionary and it's not an automatic thing that you get one. Still most offices have been handing them out without too much problem since they started issuing them back on Nov 1st 2020.
Unfortunately once you took that under consideration stamp you locked yourself in to using that office. ๐ฎ
There's not any way to go to another easier office to apply for the extension now, because you have an 'open' under consideration stamp that can only be 'closed' by the office that issued it ๐
M. **************
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What immigration office did you use? (Not Samut Prakan was it?)
I don't know about that, pick one office of seventy out of the hat for yanking their chain with a few details of the interaction. He's up there with Karnak the Magnificent. 5555