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Originally Posted by PineappleBrah
have to leave the country by monday
forgot to get a rentry permit
how do i solve this ? overstay?
I assume you dont have time to visit immigration before you leave?
Otherwise, you can get reentry at Suvarnabhumi airport. Dont know about Don Muang. Any other airport, you´re out of luck afaik.
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Originally Posted by PokerSpiv
If you don't want to do visa runs you have 4 options - listed from cheapest to most expensive.
1. Get an Education Visa
2. Get married
3. Start a company big enough to get you a work permit, this one would be really expensive, e.g. almost 100,000 baht a year
4. Get a Thailand Elite card, which entitles you to stay permanently in the country for 5 years, and costs 500,000 baht.
Or (and this one is about to become a lot more popular) you can just overstay, and pay the maximum 20,000 baht fine when you leave. The only problem with this method is that if you get arrested or somehow caught by immigration while still in the country, you could end up in immigration detention before being deported and blacklisted. You may also be barred from re-entering Thailand once you leave. This hasn't actually happened to anyone yet that I have heard of though. I know a couple of guys here who overstayed for years, paid the fine, and were back a week later.
I know several people, where option 2 turned out to be far far more expensive, than anything else
If you dont plan on leaving the country anyway, overstaying is the cheapest solution, though carries an inherent risk as Pokerspiv mentioned.
No one has been blacklisted yet, but if they suddenly decide to enforce that rule (suggested rule??), people overstaying will be in trouble, as there will most likely be no period of amnesty.