Thailand visa question No. 081/20: Can I get my annual extension back after losing my passport?

Questioner: Franc

I lost my Dutch passport with my visa stamps Non Immigration Re-entry Permit. This visa is valid until April 23, 2021. Now I have applied for and received a new passport in the Netherlands. Now my question is whether my visa stamps that I had in my old passport can be transferred to my new passport by the immigration service in Jomtien Pattaya?

If so, what would the costs be? Hope I don't have to reapply for my new passport again.

Reaction RonnyLatYa

My advice and how I would do it: You are in the Netherlands. Go get a new visa at the next opportunity, ie start all over again. A single entry is sufficient. Take your loss. The least worries and that's how you're sure. Also no hassle at check-in about any questions regarding not having a visa and a stay longer than 30 days.

In the other case. Upon arrival, you will only receive a maximum stay of 30 days. After all, you cannot show re-entry in your empty passport.

Then the question is whether they want to return your previously obtained year extension, or put the data of your original visa back in Pattaya. You can never get the visa back. Maximum the reference to it for any subsequent annual renewals. You can now say that they must have all that data anyway. Yes, that should be the case and after all they ask for that data every year, even though they already have it. But even then, the question is whether they want to do it. Transferring data to a new passport if you still have the old one is not a problem and is in principle even free. But that's not the case here.

I can therefore not guarantee that they will do it… let alone for free.

Can other readers or persons give you that guarantee? Good, but I leave that advice under their responsibility.

But even if you don't, all is not lost. You can then always have those 30 days Visa Exemption converted to a Non-immigrant through your immigration office. Costs 2000 Baht. Make sure that there are at least 15 days of stay left with the application.

You will then first receive a 90-day stay upon acceptance. Just like you would enter with a Non-immigrant visa. You can then extend it for another year at the price of 1900 Baht.

But the whole procedure is the same as starting all over again, of course. You did not get your old data back.

Success.

Regards,

RonnyLatYa