Payment for overstay

[Jackm93]

Where do you pay the fine for overstaying at Bangkok airport? Is it easy to find?

[PoorSucker]

You pay at immigration, just join the regular que. 

When the IO notice your overstay you get directed to where you pay. 

[overherebc]

When you hand your passport over to the nice officer at the Immigration booth the nice officer will kindly invite you to follow his friend who will lead you to a big desk where they wiil relieve you of your cash at the rate of 500 baht per day and will then award you the nice stamp in your passport.

Just don't get stopped and checked at any time prior to getting to the airport. That's a whole different ball game.

Edited August 25, 2019 by overherebc

[Lamkyong]

no worries they will breast feed you all the way to the payment desk  (humour )

[jacko45k]

12 hours ago, Lamkyong said:

no worries they will breast feed you all the way to the payment desk  (humour )

Yes, no avoiding it.....

[Peter Denis]

If your know BEFOREHAND that you will be overstaying your regular visa or visa-exemption time, you could consider going to a local Immigration Office and applying for an extension of stay (30 days).  That can be done on the spot, and you do not need to wait till last date of visa validity to go to the immigration office as the extension of stay starts from the end of validity date of your present visa or visa exemption.

The extension of stay (30 days) costs 1900 THB.

So if you foresee that you will overstay 4 days (= @ 500 THB per day), the cost will be approx the same.  But the advantage is of course that you do not get an overstay stamp in your passport, and you will not be in trouble when the police checks your passport and notices that your visa validity time has expired.  

[Max69xl]

1 hour ago, Peter Denis said:

If your know BEFOREHAND that you will be overstaying your regular visa or visa-exemption time, you could consider going to a local Immigration Office and applying for an extension of stay (30 days).  That can be done on the spot, and you do not need to wait till last date of visa validity to go to the immigration office as the extension of stay starts from the end of validity date of your present visa or visa exemption.

The extension of stay (30 days) costs 1900 THB.

So if you foresee that you will overstay 4 days (= @ 500 THB per day), the cost will be approx the same.  But the advantage is of course that you do not get an overstay stamp in your passport, and you will not be in trouble when the police checks your passport and notices that your visa validity time has expired.  

The overstay stamp in your passport means nothing if we're talking a few days. It's more of a receipt that you paid the overstay,nothing more. But,if you for any reason miscalculated your stay and suddenly noticed (before the overstay started) that you will have 10 days overstay, and you have already done 1 extension, you can actually get a 7 days extension. Sometimes they call it an "emergency extension". It still cost 1900 baht and you pay the rest at the airport. It's cheaper than 5000 baht,though. I did it myself once years ago in Jomtien Immigration.

[PoorSucker]

1 minute ago, Max69xl said:

The overstay stamp in your passport means nothing if we're talking a few days. It's more of a receipt that you paid the overstay,nothing more. 

Royal consulate in Penang will not issue a visa if you have an overstay stamp in your passport. 

[Max69xl]

20 minutes ago, PoorSucker said:

Royal consulate in Penang will not issue a visa if you have an overstay stamp in your passport. 

Royal Thai Consulate in Penang refuses entry for any reason. 4 days or so overstay means nothing for a proper embassy or consulate. We're not talking 40-89 days. It's not a crime having a few days overstay. 

[PoorSucker]

1 minute ago, Max69xl said:

 It's not a crime having a few days overstay. 

Yes it is, you get fined for it. 

[brewsterbudgen]

Royal consulate in Penang will not issue a visa if you have an overstay stamp in your passport. 

And you may be unable to board a flight to Laos with an overstay stamp in your passport.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app

[overherebc]

17 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

And you may be unable to board a flight to Laos with an overstay stamp in your passport.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app
 

And if you decide to pay for the Elite Visa your application may be denied.

[Max69xl]

1 minute ago, overherebc said:

And if you decide to pay for the Elite Visa your application may be denied.

Show me any proof of someone having problems with a few days overstay when having an otherwise normal passport without a huge amount of Visa exempts. Don't mention The Royal Consulate in Penang. They can give you a hard time for any silly reason.

[overherebc]

4 minutes ago, Max69xl said:

Show me any proof of someone having problems with a few days overstay when having an otherwise normal passport without a huge amount of Visa exempts. Don't mention The Royal Consulate in Penang. They can give you a hard time for any silly reason.

Any consulate can change rules and attitudes as they are entitled to do. ( That's one of the reasons I carry my updated bankbook and copies when applying for a visa outside Thailand ).

A new 'boss' in the consulate has the power to change application conditions and neither you nor me can do anything about it.

[Suradit69]

On 8/26/2019 at 4:57 PM, Max69xl said:

It's not a crime having a few days overstay.

Actually it is since it indicates you have no legal permission to be in the country. Although it's unlikely you would be stopped and checked before reaching the airport, if you were you could be detained, fined and held until you were to board your flight out.

[Suradit69]

On 8/26/2019 at 3:11 PM, Peter Denis said:

If your know BEFOREHAND that you will be overstaying your regular visa or visa-exemption time,

Actually even if you have already had one extension, you can still apply for another one at an immigrations office. They would take your Baht 1900 and application,  refuse to give you an extension but still give you  7  days to leave the country.

Those 7 days would, most likely, be from the date you visited the immigrations office since the 7 days is not actually an extension but a concession to allow you to avoid being charged with an overstay.

 

On 8/26/2019 at 3:11 PM, Peter Denis said:

as the extension of stay starts from the end of validity date of your present visa or visa exemption.

The extension dates have nothing to do with the validity date of your visa . The extension would be added onto the current permission to stay date stamped in your passport, and no, your permission to stay is not a visa. Your permission to stay can easily have a expiry date past the expiry date on your visa. 

 

On 8/26/2019 at 3:11 PM, Peter Denis said:

you will not be in trouble when the police checks your passport and notices that your visa validity time has expired.

One can only hope that an official checking your passport would know enough to check the validity of your permission to stay and not the visa you presented when you entered the country.

Edited August 30, 2019 by Suradit69

[onera1961]

On 8/26/2019 at 4:57 AM, Max69xl said:

It's not a crime having a few days overstay. 

They can arrest, prosecute and black list you. What do you call it? Not a crime but arrest and prosecute for what? Is it an entitlement?

[Max69xl]

49 minutes ago, Suradit69 said:

Actually even if you have already had one extension, you can still apply for another one at an immigrations office. They would take your Baht 1900 and application,  refuse to give you an extension but still give you  7  days to leave the country.

Those 7 days would, most likely, be from the date you visited the immigrations office since the 7 days is not actually an extension but a concession to allow you to avoid being charged with an overstay.

 

The extension dates have nothing to do with the validity date of your visa . The extension would be added onto the current permission to stay date stamped in your passport, and no, your permission to stay is not a visa. Your permission to stay can easily have a expiry date past the expiry date on your visa. 

 

One can only hope that an official checking your passport would know enough to check the validity of your permission to stay and not the visa you presented when you entered the country.

If you started with a 90 days Non-immigrant O Visa,then the 1 year extension starts when the first 90 days are expired. There is nothing called permission to stay. It's the red date stamp above the extension stamp that shows when your extension expires. That's what any police or immigration officer looks at. The 90 days reports start from the entry stamp when you entered Thailand.