Thailand visa exemption extension: add 30 days once, for 1,900 baht

Can you extend, and for how long?

You can extend if you entered on the 30-day tourism visa exemption, or on a 30-day visa exemption under an agreement between Thailand and your country.¹ Immigration gives you up to 30 more days, counted from the day your current stay ends.¹ It can grant fewer days.⁵

30 days now, not 60

Since 15 September 2026, a visitor on the tourism visa exemption gets 30 days at entry, not 60.⁷⁸ The 60-day exemption of 15 July 2024 is repealed.¹² The exemption is now for tourism only: the repealed one also covered work and short business trips.¹²

If you entered on 60 days before 15 September 2026, you keep your 60 days.¹³ The extension order names exemptions of up to 30 days, and does not say if a 60-day entry can add 30 more.¹ See what people report.

Why some people get only 7 days

The extension order has no rule that gives 7 days to a second visa-exempt entry.¹ Two rules give 7 days:

• The 9 nationalities above get 7 days at most.³
• If immigration refuses your application, you must leave within 7 days of the day your stay ends.¹

Since November 2025, the Immigration Bureau tells its provincial offices to refuse or cancel extensions for visitors who make repeated visa runs.¹⁴

The official limit of 2 a year applies to entries over a land border.⁷ Nationals of Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore have no such limit.⁷

What to bring

Immigration does not refund the fee, whether it approves your application or not.²

The official document list does not ask for a TM.30 receipt, an onward ticket or proof of money.¹³ The TM.30 is the address report that your hotel or landlord files. Chiang Mai asks for its receipt, so ask your hotel for a copy before you go. See what people report.

When and where to apply

Apply before your current stay ends. The extra 30 days count from the day your current stay ends, so an early application does not cost you days.¹ No official page gives the first day you can apply. While immigration decides, you can stay, for up to 30 days after your stay ends.¹

If you apply after your stay ends, you pay the overstay fine. If immigration then refuses you, you must leave within 7 days of the refusal.¹

At an immigration office

You must hand in the TM.7 yourself.² Each immigration office serves its own area: the Bangkok office takes only people who stay in Bangkok.¹⁰

In Bangkok, go to Counter K, IT Square Lak Si, 3rd floor.¹⁰

Online

Apply on the VFS e-Extension site, which the Immigration Bureau links from its home page.¹⁵

• VFS lists the 30-day visa exemption under tourism.⁵
• You pay the 1,900 baht fee plus a VFS service fee. VFS currently charges 500 baht for each service speed.⁵
• After approval, you go to an immigration office to get the stamp in your passport. For tourism, that office can be different from the one you chose when you applied.⁵

The Immigration Bureau’s THIM app does not take extensions yet. The Bureau plans to add them.¹⁶

If you are refused or overstay

• If immigration refuses your application, you must leave Thailand within 7 days of the day your stay ends.¹
• Staying after your permission ends is an offence: up to 2 years in prison, a fine of up to 20,000 baht, or both.¹⁷ Immigration settles it with a fine of 500 baht a day, up to 20,000 baht.⁶
• An overstay can bring an entry ban. If you give yourself up, an overstay of more than 90 days brings a 1-year ban, more than 1 year 3 years, more than 3 years 5 years, and more than 5 years 10 years.⁶
• If you are arrested, an overstay of up to 1 year brings a 5-year ban, and more than 1 year a 10-year ban.⁶

What people report

• At IT Square Lak Si in Bangkok, one reader arrived at 7:50 am and had the extension at 9:50 am. The reader says 30 to 40 people were in line when the office opened at 8:30 am, and some came at 6 am.¹⁸
• Readers say Lak Si closes from 12 to 1 pm, takes only cash, and has shops on the same floor for photos and copies, for about 116 to 200 baht.¹⁸ They say to bring a pen, and that the TM.7 forms are free at the document check.¹⁸
• In April 2026, Counter K at Lak Si did not ask one reader for a TM.30 receipt, a return flight or a bank balance.¹⁸ A reader in October 2026 says Lak Si seems to ask for the TM.30 more strictly now.¹⁸
• Readers say Chiang Mai asks for a copy of the TM.30 receipt first.¹⁸¹⁹
• One reader in Bangkok could not pay by card. Another reader says there are ATMs in the basement.²⁰
• In August 2026, staff at Lak Si told a reader who had extended once earlier in the year that they could get only 7 days.²¹ Other readers got a second 30-day extension in the same year.²²²³
• A reader who entered on 60 days before 15 September 2026 asked about extending in Chiang Mai. One reply says they extended after that date with no problem.¹⁹
• One reader applied at Lak Si with 30 days of their stay left and had no problem.¹⁸ Another says Bangkok takes an application in the last 30 days.²⁴
• At a Chiang Mai immigration office in a Central shopping mall, one reader took under 2 hours, including the photos and the form.²⁵