JustSumGai Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 this seems to always result in me getting 29 days. Screwed ouf of a day over 15 mins or so. HOW do they calculate your time arrived? By when the FLIGHT is arriving? or when you step up to Immigration? I seem to recall a member who would hang around a bit to make sure he got stamped IN after midnight. Anyone know about this? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke007 Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 2 hours ago, JustSumGai said: this seems to always result in me getting 29 days. Screwed ouf of a day over 15 mins or so. HOW do they calculate your time arrived? By when the FLIGHT is arriving? or when you step up to Immigration? I seem to recall a member who would hang around a bit to make sure he got stamped IN after midnight. Anyone know about this? Your arrival date starts when they stamp your passport going through immigration on your arrival and not the time your flight is due to arrive It would make good sense for you to hang back from going through immigration for a while if you were planning on staying on 30 days and your flight has arrived at something like 11pm for example, so as not to waste a whole day I know my flight departure in December is at 01-35am, if Immigration took that into account I would be overstaying by a day, but because I will be checking in and being stamped out going through departures before midnight everything is hunky dory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xyzzy Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 I went through immigration once a few minutes after midnight and they had not changed the date stamp yet. I have no idea when they usually change the stamp. Also someone on this board once got hit for an extra day because even though he was going through immigration before midnight his flight left after midnight. But I think this is a rare thing. I never head of it happening to anyone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustSumGai Posted November 20, 2016 Author Share Posted November 20, 2016 yeah, it's bugged me for some time. To start with I'm flying across the Inter'nl Date line so I leave 8am Nov 30. Fly to Houston, then Narita in Tokyo, then into Bkk where I arrive December 1. JUST before midnight. So in fact I get in go to sleep and wake up on December 2. It seems typically crooked to stamp me in as arriving December 1 same as some guy who arrived nearly 23 hours earlier than me. So first I get the 12 hour whack from the dateline which leads to the one day whack from Immigration. Not bein able to do anything about the dateline (why is it that I've never seen a flight going EAST when I'm practically on the East Coast of the U.S.?) I figured to try out this hangin back thing. Yeah Duke I've read the same thing about departures like yours on other threads. And xyzzy, USUALLY from what I've read, they let one slide on just one day, presumably because of stuff like you mentioned. Thanks for the info 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pentire Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 On 20/11/2016 at 3:10 AM, duke007 said: Your arrival date starts when they stamp your passport going through immigration on your arrival and not the time your flight is due to arrive It would make good sense for you to hang back from going through immigration for a while if you were planning on staying on 30 days and your flight has arrived at something like 11pm for example, so as not to waste a whole day I know my flight departure in December is at 01-35am, if Immigration took that into account I would be overstaying by a day, but because I will be checking in and being stamped out going through departures before midnight everything is hunky dory I can't speak for arrivals because I've hitherto not arrived close to midnight however, for departure I used to frequently depart around 01.30 while going through immigration before midnight, although my passport was stamped the day of flight departure and NOT when the day before. One time I even paid the overstay because it was my second day over but only by 90 minutes, I thought that was a bit harsh. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrock Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 38 minutes ago, pentire said: I can't speak for arrivals because I've hitherto not arrived close to midnight however, for departure I used to frequently depart around 01.30 while going through immigration before midnight, although my passport was stamped the day of flight departure and NOT when the day before. One time I even paid the overstay because it was my second day over but only by 90 minutes, I thought that was a bit harsh. Yeah, happened to me too. Passing through immigration at 11pm on the last day of my visa I had to pay one day overstay because my flight departed at 1am. I tried to explain that once through immigration I wasn't technically in Thailand anymore, but the officer wasn't buying that one. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pdoggg Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 My friends flight was scheduled to arrive at 11:45 PM on December 26th. However the flight was delayed and it landed around 12:45 in the morning. My friend got stamped on the 27th rather than the 26th. It would seem to be extra work if Immigration kept track of scheduled arrival times and lots of extra work to keep track of landing time. Not sure what the official policy is; just reporting on the experience of my friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sustra2 Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 officially you are in the country when they put the stamp on your visa...not when the plane arrives... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustSumGai Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 well, I dawdled a bit and got in past midnight and got stamped for Dec 2, exit on (beftore?) the 31st. Can not figure out how they call that 30 days. I'm sure that getting in before midnight and having that count as a whole day is worse tho. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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