THAILAND VISA EXTENSION IN CHIANG MAI

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If you are looking for info on how to do the Thailand visa extension in Chiang Mai You're in luck, the process is very simple! To extend the Thai visa in Chiang Mai you will only need one morning. Here we explain step by step how to do it:

You will need the following documentation:

Passport original.

3 Photocopies: of the first passport sheet, of the sheet with the entry stamp to Thailand and from the “departure card”Completed. All photocopies have to be signed for you. It is best not to worry about this and go directly to the copy shop makeshift that is across the road in front of the immigration office. The price per copy is 2 bahts. If you entered Thailand with a visa, you will also have to photocopy this sheet. You will have to sign these photocopies.

1 passport photograph. If you do not have no problem, in that same copy shop you can make them, 4 photos per 100 bahts. The size that is requested is 6 × 4 cm, although they are quite flexible (the photo we took was also from the year of the polka and they said nothing).

1 filled form that you can pick up yourself at the tables outside the immigration building. The form is TM.7 “Application for Extension of Temporary Stay in the Kingdom“, Where you will have to put your personal information, dates of entry, address in Thailand, Thai phone, etc. Here you can download the TM.7 form

When you deliver the documentation you have to pay THB 1,900 fees.

We tell you step by step how to extend the Thai visa in Chiang Mai

1. Go to immigration office which is located on the airport road, about 4 km from the center of Chiang Mai. If you go by motorcycle you can park in the outdoor parking lot on the left side.

Chiang Mai immigration office location
The opening hours are from 07:30 to 16:30 from Monday to Friday (attentive to holidays)
Official page of the immigration office

EYE: the office was a long time ago in the Shopping Center Promised, about 10 km from downtown Chiang Mai, but since 2018 it has moved to this new office.

2. After parking, cross the road and go do the photocopies of the passport and if you need also the Photos in the improvised copy shop (2 bahts per photocopy and 100 bahts for the 4 photos).

3. Approach the outside tables of the office and collect the form TM.7. You can fill it right there (remember to take a pen in case you can't find any). If you have any questions you can leave the space blank and ask when you deliver it.

4. Once you have the completed form, the signed photocopies and the photo, enter the building and hand it over to employees in the main counter, along with the passport and money. You can deliver 2,000 baths and at the end of the process they will return the rest. They will give you a piece of paper with the turn number, which will be a TX.

5. Sit in the chairs waiting for your number to appear on the screens. Visa extensions when we went were managed from the counter 2, so stay close. They will call you twice:

The first for the number of your turn, you will have to approach the counter and there they take a picture of you. Then you can sit back down.
The second It is the definitive one, they will call you by your name and then yes, you will collect your passport, along with the 100 baht of the change (if you delivered 2,000) and a receipt of the procedure.

- To complete the forms you will need to put the address of your residence, write it down before going!

- Do not you need to print No form from the internet, you can find all of them there and have no difficulty.

- Remember the schedule!!

- The stamp occupies half a face of a passport sheet, keep it in mind if you are adjusting space.

- It is not necessary to carry out the process in a hurry to have more days in Thailand, the visa It extends 30 days from the date your visa expires current or your permission (come on, that if you entered on November 2 and on your stamp it says that you can be until December 1, if you are going to process the visa extension on November 24, you will have permission until December 31, It is clear?)

- We take a total of about 50 minutes, we went on a Tuesday afternoon. We returned the next day with a friend in the morning (about 9) and the weather was more or less the same. Talking to a man who lives here, he told us that Mondays and Fridays were the days that most people go. But come on you don't need to go at 6 in the morning ...