Your planning should start about three days prior as there will be additional days added on your current stamp on top of the day you visit the immigration office.
Remember that you must apply for a visa extension BEFORE your Visa has expired.
You need to keep in mind that it may take at least 1-2 hours to complete your visa extension process. We suggest you visit us at the Chiang Mai Visa Shop if any assistance is required in making the application.
We recommend, where possible, you visit the Chiang Mai Immigration Office on days other than Mondays and Fridays and early morning to ensure your process is looked into promptly as these two days are usually extremely busy.
If you have presented immigration with the correct and adequate documents, you will be asked to sit and wait for 10-15 minutes, and after this interval, you will be called to be issued an extension of stay. The time you are requesting to extend your Visa has no impact on the time it would take to extend it; therefore, we advise our clients to extend their Visa for 30-days when possible.
You must attend in person to the immigration department office and present correct documentation for the visa extension.
A filled out and signed TM.7 – Extension of Temporary Stay form. Make sure you know the full address of where you will be staying at, as you will be required to include that on your application form.
