Visa Extension

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Check Your Visa Type: All students must hold either a Non-Immigrant ED or Non-Immigrant ED PLUS visa.
Verify Your Initial Permitted Stay: Upon your first arrival in Thailand, you should have been granted 90 days of permitted stay.
Renew Your Passport if Necessary: If your passport is valid for less than six months before your visa extension, you must renew it. To do so, please contact your embassy in Thailand.
Submit Documents on Time: Prepare and submit all required documents via Google Form at least 60 days before your visa expires.
Extend Your Visa Before It Expires:
- - Students must visit the immigration office to extend their visa before the expiration date.
  - Failure to extend your visa will result in an overstay fine of 500 Baht per day, up to a maximum of 20,000 Baht.
  - Overstaying may also lead to a ban from entering Thailand, as stated in the Acknowledgement of Penalties for Visa Overstay (STM.9 form).
  - Students are solely responsible for any fines incurred.

5 steps of visa extension procedures

step 1: Prepare required documents

List of required documents:

VISA Extension Forms (5 pages) - Please write down with proper hand writing.

You can pick up the form at IA&CR or download the form >> Visa Extension Form <<
New students have received the form on the orientation day

A Photo (4x6 cm) - collared shirt, plain light background

Please attach your photo to the Visa Extension Form using glue.

A Copy of Passport
- Data page
- Arrival stamp page
- Every stamps by the Thai immigration officers
Non-Immigrant ED visa
A copy of the Departure card/TM.6 (for those who arrived in Thailand before July 2022)
Student Status Certificate (Valid 2 months from the request date until the date you extend visa)

Make an online request
You will be able to request after your course registration is done
You can choose either original or electronic file. If you choose electronic file, please make sure to download it and print it out.

Academic Record (transcript)

Make an online request
You will be able to request after your course registration is done
You can choose either original or electronic file. If you choose electronic file, please make sure to download it and print it out.

A copy of Graduation Certificate from SIIT or Thammasat University
- Applicable only to those who have graduated with a Bachelor's or Master's degree from SIIT.
A copy of scholarship agreement (for scholarship recipients)

If you are not a 100% scholarship recipient and have made tuition fee payments, you must also submit the tuition fee receipt.

Registration Receipt (for self-support student)
TM. 30 Form <<Click for more information

step 2: submit documents and reqeust for cover letter addressed to the immigration office

Please submit all required documents to the Visa Extension Request Form at least 60 days prior to your visa expiry date.
All required documents above combined into 1 PDF. file.
It takes 7 working days to issue the cover letter after submission.

step 3: receive siit letter

Once your documents have been checked and IA&CR has already issued a cover letter to you. You will receive an email from Ms. Rapeepan to confirm that your documents are correct and you can receive the cover letter.

step 4: visit the immigration office to extend your visa

You are eligible to visit the immigration office up to 45 days prior to your visa's expiry date to submit the required documents for a visa extension.

Please bring the following documents:

1. All required documents above + Cover letter by SIIT + TU Rector's ID + SIIT Director's ID

2. VISA Fee of 1,900 Baht (cash only)

3. Original Passport

4. Original TM.6 (for those who arrived in Thailand before July 2022)

SIIT Transportation Service

SIIT provides a van service once a week for students going to the immigration office. You can make a reservation at Van Reservation
Please note that SIIT van service is optional. You can go to the immigration on your own.
Pathum Thani Immigration Office Map

STEP 5: submit your Visa extension stamp to IA&CR

Once you have submitted your documents to the immigration office, your visa will be extended, and a visa extension stamp will be placed in your passport.
Please submit a copy of your updated visa extension stamp to Visa Extension Stamp Submission Form for double check and for our record.

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