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Since 15 September 2026, passport holders from 60 countries and territories, including the US, UK, most of the EU, Australia, Japan and India, get 30 days visa-free on arrival. Until 14 September it was 60 days for 93 nationalities. A one-time 30-day extension (฿1,900) at an immigration office remains available, so a visa-free trip now tops out at 60 days.

It already has. The Interior Ministry notices were published in the Royal Gazette on 31 August 2026 and took effect on 15 September 2026: 30 days for 60 countries and territories, 15 days for Mauritius and Seychelles, and visa on arrival for Azerbaijan, Belarus and Serbia only. India and Maldives, which the Cabinet coverage had put on visa on arrival and 15 days, ended up on the 30-day list. Anyone who entered before 15 September keeps the stay stamped on arrival.

Yes. A visa-exempt stay can be extended once by 30 days for ฿1,900, at the immigration office that covers the address where you are staying (the next answer says which). Bring your passport, a TM.7 form, one photo and the TM.30 receipt for your address. Offices in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket and Pattaya handle thousands of these — go early in the morning. A 60-day stamp from before 15 September 2026 takes the same single extension, so those stays can still reach 90 days. We have not found an Immigration Bureau notice on that transition; the evidence is a first-hand report, posted on 25 September, of one such extension granted the day before.

The one that covers the address you are registered at, which is the address on your TM.30: the residence report your hotel or landlord must file within 24 hours of your arrival (Immigration Act, section 38). Every Bangkok district, Bang Na, Prawet and Lat Krabang included, goes to Immigration Division 1 at the Government Complex, Building B, 2nd floor, Chaeng Watthana Soi 7. A stay in Samut Prakan province, which takes in Bang Phli and the hotels around Suvarnabhumi, goes to Samut Prakan Immigration at 5 Soi 2, Sutthiphirom Road, Pak Nam, not to Bangkok; that office moved back there from Bang Phli on 1 April 2024. Both open Monday to Friday 08:30 to 16:30, close for lunch from 12:00 to 13:00 and stay shut at weekends and on public holidays. Bring the TM.30 receipt: Chaeng Watthana has turned away extensions without one since March 2019. With it, a TM.7 form, ฿1,900 in cash, one 4 x 6 cm photo taken in the last six months, and copies of your passport photo page and entry stamp. Sources: Samut Prakan Immigration's contact page (updated April 2026) and area page; BAL's immigration alert of May 2019; office guides updated in September 2026. The Immigration Bureau's own page on which office covers which area did not load for us on 15 October 2026, so the area rule rests on those sources rather than its own wording.

From 31 August 2026, DTV applicants must apply in a country where they hold citizenship or permanent residence — applying from a third country (such as inside Southeast Asia) is no longer accepted — and must include a recent criminal record certificate. Applications fully paid before 31 August 2026 are assessed under the old rules.

Overstaying costs ฿500 per day, capped at ฿20,000, payable when you exit. Overstays of more than 90 days trigger re-entry bans if you leave voluntarily: 1 year (90+ days), 3 years (1+ year), 5 years (3+ years) and 10 years (5+ years). Being caught while overstaying — for example in a spot check — leads to arrest, deportation and a minimum 5-year ban. If you're on overstay, go to immigration or exit and pay the fine as soon as possible; it gets strictly worse with time.

Not one we could find. As of 8 October 2026 there was no Immigration Bureau notice giving visitors extra days because of the flooding (we searched the English-language press and TAT's visitor updates of 13:00 on 28 and 29 September). Immigration has done it before, for a flood: an order of 27 November 2025 used Section 54 of the Immigration Act to waive overstay fines for tourists in eight southern provinces whose stay expired between 20 November and 31 December 2025 and who could not leave because roads or transport were cut (Khaosod English, 28 November 2025). And in March 2026 it waived overstay fines for anyone leaving the country after Middle East airspace closures stranded them (VisasNews, 4 March 2026). Until a notice appears, the normal rules apply: the ฿1,900 extension at an immigration office if you can reach one, or ฿500 a day of overstay paid when you leave, so two days late costs ฿1,000 and carries no ban. The Immigration Bureau's call centre is 1178, weekdays 08:30 to 16:30.

Yes — every foreign visitor must complete the Thailand Digital Arrival Card (TDAC) online within 3 days before arrival (tdac.immigration.go.th, free). It replaced the old TM.6 paper card. Airlines increasingly check for it at check-in.