Thailand Visa Question No. 198/21: Staying longer in Thailand than specified in the application
Questioner: Han
Can I also stay in Thailand longer with the Sandbox trip or is the CoE no longer valid? I have a Non immigrant O visa with a single entry. Will I not get in trouble if I cancel my return flight because the trip is for 45 days?
Please comment, thanks in advance
Reaction RonnyLatYa
I understand from your question that when you applied for the CoE you specified that you would stay for 45 days, because your airline ticket indicates so. Despite the fact that you could stay for 90 days with a Non-immigrant.
– The CoE is a Certificate of Entry. It is in itself a Corona measure to enter Thailand. You could actually say that after entry and all the checks that take place around that entry, the CoE is no longer valid. After all, you're inside and you can't re-enter with it. By which I don't immediately mean that you should therefore immediately throw it away after entering.
– You have a Non-immigrant O. You will normally receive 90 days of residence upon entry.
I recently read a comment that said that one was required to prove an insurance period of 90 days with a Non-immigrant O. That is also the maximum period you can get with a Non-immigrant O upon entry. This is regardless of the period that you indicate that you wish to stay with the application. 45 days in your case.
That could be possible given the period of stay you can get with it, but can't confirm that personally.
If not, it could be argued that you can only obtain one stay for the insured period. 45 days in this case, but I don't think so.
By the way, it is not forbidden to extend an acquired period of residence as far as I know.
– What will then happen to your plane ticket is your loss to bear, if you cannot convert it of course.
– Readers who have experienced problems with such a situation can of course always let us know, but rather suspect not.
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The rule is that the compulsory insurance must cover the entire period of stay.
The question then is how is this known by the “competent authority” for approval or rejection of a COE application?
Length of stay based on outward and return flight dates on your ticket? However, you can easily move data with almost all airlines at no cost ... and the Thai officials at MFA and at the embassies know that, of course. So that is an uncertain criterion.
Length of stay based on the visa?
Seems like a more reliable criterion.
For a NON-O that is then 90 days, for a NON-OA and a NON OX that is 365 days, for an STV 90 days, for a visa exemption it is now 45 days.
When extending the length of stay in Thailand, the known existing rules will then apply, depending on the type of visa.
By the way, note that Thai insurers sell the 100.000 C19 insurance for 30, 60, 90, 180, 270 and 365 days. Not by chance.
AA-insure advised me to travel to Thailand with a one-way ticket and to keep the expiration date of my re-entry in mind when purchasing the compulsory insurance (C19 100.000 + 40.000/400.000 in/out). patient). This is of course advice tailored to my personal situation.
I have decided to postpone my return trip to Thailand for a month in the hope that a number of measures will be relaxed in the meantime, including the quarantine rules and hopefully also the mandatory insurance certificates. I already have good health and repatriation insurance, which unfortunately does not require the certificates that Thailand requires for a COE.
I entered with a non OA visa at the end of last year. Normally you will then have a residence period of one year. But because my insurance was only valid for 10.5 months, I was given a residence period of 10.5 months.
Completely correct and is also stated in the immigration regulations for an OA.
In the past, you were granted a residence period of one year for each entry within the validity period of your visa. That is actually no longer possible.
You cannot obtain a residence period longer than the duration of your health insurance, with a maximum of one year.
Is on a 2019 immigration order.
Attachment to the Order of the Immigration Bureau no. 300/2562 dated September 27, 2019
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1.A n alien, who has been granted Non-Immigrant Visa Class OA for single entry or multiple entry and enters the Kingdom for the first time, will be permitted to stay in the Kingdom for a coverage period of health insurance for not exceeding 1 year. An immigration officer shall check any remarks on a visa issued by an overseas Royal Thai Embassy for consideration and approval.
2.An alien, who has been granted Non-Immigrant Visa Class OA for multiple entry and enters the Kingdom from the second time onwards, will be permitted to stay in the Kingdom for the remaining coverage period of health insurance for not exceeding 1 year.
3.An alien, who has been granted Non-Immigrant Visa Class OA for multiple entry but the coverage period of health insurance has already expired, even if the visa is still valid, will not be permitted to enter the Kingdom. However, the said alien can buy a health insurance in Thailand in order to be permitted to enter the Kingdom for a coverage period of health insurance for not exceeding 1 year.
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