Are 30-day tourist visa extensions ever denied in Thailand?

8/18/2018 2:22:08 PM

It is unlikely Thai immigration would deny the 30-day tourist visa extension if you comply with the requirements.

If you haven’t stayed in Thailand for too long on tourist visas, fill out all the paperwork correctly, look presentable and act patient and polite with the officers, it’s highly unlikely you’d be refused. In rare cases, some immigration offices might ask you for additional documents, such as proof of address or TM.30 form, but will still issue you the extension on another visit to the immigration office.

Thai immigration doing 30-day tourist visa extensions are NOT tasked with actively using their judgement to sort applicants into accept/reject groups, but simply checking the documents and performing a routine bureaucratic procedure.

Of course, they still have the authority to deny you the extension for any reason whatsoever, so if you annoy them, they’re having a bad day, you’re impolite or not presentable, they could do it.

3/22/2018 3:06:37 AM

Note that the extension is available for people with a visa applied in advance: ie not VoA and not people getting a visa exemption (a stamp in the passport at arrival). So if you’re planning to stay 90 days in Thailand, you have two solutions:

  • Apply for a 2-entry visa, and do a border run, plus either apply for an extension, or do a second border run if you can get a 30-day visa exemption.

  • Enter on a 30-day visa exemption (again, assuming you are elligible), and do two border runs. Note land/sea border runs are limited to 2 per year. But if your goal is 90 days, you should be good to go.

3/21/2018 7:52:34 PM

Yes.

I went through the extension process in January. (As an aside, the new Bangkok Immigration office is fairly inconvenient to get to; plan accordingly.)

While I was being interviewed the Canadian at the desk next to me did not have a valid address on his extension form; he argued with the immigration officer that it was not important. He did not get his extension.

So in answer to your question if the visa extensions are ever denied, yes it has happened at least once.

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