Thai immigration paperwork is rarely difficult. It is, however, unusually unforgiving of small mistakes — a photocopy of the wrong passport page, an unsigned form, a photo of the wrong dimensions — and each mistake costs you a return trip to an office where the queue starts before it opens.
That is the entire value of what we do here. We’re not going to pretend visa work is glamorous.
Important: Thai immigration rules, visa-exemption lists and permitted stay lengths change from time to time, and they differ by nationality and by immigration office. Nothing on this page is legal advice or a statement of current rules. Tell us your nationality and dates and we will confirm what applies to you, from the official source, before you travel.
What we actually help with
Before you arrive
- Working out whether you need a visa at all for your nationality and planned length of stay
- Explaining which visa category fits your trip — and which doesn’t
- Document checklists for your nearest Thai embassy or consulate, in plain English
- Supporting documents that visitors commonly forget: confirmed accommodation, onward travel, proof of funds in the required format
Once you’re here
- Extensions of stay at the immigration office covering your address
- Preparing, copying and correctly signing the whole document set
- Attending the office with you, or on your behalf where that’s permitted
- 90-day reporting for long-stay visitors
- TM.30 address notification — the filing that catches out people staying in private accommodation rather than a hotel
- Re-entry permits if you need to leave and come back without losing your permission to stay
What we won’t do
We’ll be direct about this, because agents in Thailand have a mixed reputation and you deserve to know where the line is.
We will not misrepresent your circumstances to immigration, provide documents that aren’t genuine, or arrange any “special handling” that depends on a relationship rather than the rules. Beyond being illegal, it puts a black mark against your passport, not ours — and you’re the one who has to live with it at every future border.
If your situation doesn’t fit the rules, we’ll tell you that clearly and help you find one that does.
When you honestly don’t need an agent
Plenty of visitors don’t. If you are:
- Entering visa-free for a short holiday, with a return ticket, staying in a hotel — you need nothing from us at all
- Comfortable with bureaucracy, based near a quiet provincial immigration office, and not in a hurry — you can handle a straightforward extension yourself in a morning
Where people find us worth the fee is when there’s friction: a busy Bangkok office, a tight timeline before your permitted stay ends, a complicated set of documents, a language barrier, or simply not wanting to spend a day of a two-week holiday sitting on a plastic chair.
What the extension process actually looks like
Knowing the shape of it removes most of the anxiety:
- Check your permitted-to-stay date. It’s the stamp in your passport, and it is not always the date you assumed. This is where most problems begin.
- Assemble the documents — passport, departure card, photos, form, address proof, signed copies of specific pages.
- Go to the right office. Immigration is organised by the province and district you’re staying in, not by where you feel like going.
- Take a queue number early. Popular offices issue their day’s numbers well before lunch.
- Submit, pay the government fee, receive the stamp — usually the same day at most offices.
Individually each step is easy. The failure mode is almost always step 2 or step 3.
Common mistakes we see every month
- Waiting until the last two days. If anything is wrong, you have no room to fix it. Start two weeks out.
- Assuming your friend’s rules are your rules. Requirements differ by nationality, visa type and office.
- Forgetting the TM.30. If you’re staying in a condo, an Airbnb or with a friend rather than a hotel, someone needs to have filed your address. Immigration may ask for it at your extension.
- Overstaying “just a couple of days”. Overstay carries a daily fine and, past certain thresholds, entry bans. It is genuinely not worth it — an extension costs less and takes an afternoon.
- Trusting an out-of-date forum post. Thai visa rules have changed several times in recent years. A confident answer from 2023 may be wrong today.
How we charge
Visa work is quoted per case, because the effort varies enormously — a single straightforward extension is a different job from a family of four with mixed nationalities and a tight timeline.
What you’ll always get is a fixed fee, quoted before we start, listed separately from the government fees (which we never mark up — those go to immigration, and we show you the official amount).
Tell us your nationality, your dates and where you’re staying → and we’ll come back with exactly what applies to you and what, if anything, it costs. If the answer is “you don’t need us”, that’s what we’ll say.
Sorting transport at the same time? See private van and driver hire → and Bangkok airport transfers →.