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At the title of this video suggests, we are discussing what to do when Thai Immigration is closed and you need to deal with your visa extension. So I thought of making this video after reading recent article from the Pattaya Mail, that is pattayamail.com, the article is titled: Thai Immigration holidays May 2024. Quoting directly: "Foreigners whose entry stamps expire on a day the Immigration Bureau is closed, should attend on the first day of opening and will not be charged for overstay." 

So this is basically one of the protocols of Immigration if there's a Thai holiday, for example this coming Monday at the time of this video, but Monday, May 6th is a Thai holiday for example and a grace period is generally given to those who for example their Visa expires on that holiday; you are generally able to deal with that the next day that Thai Immigration is open.

Now that said, that statement is a very precise statement to describe a very fuzzy mechanism if you will. What I mean to say there is there are all kinds of variables that pop up when you are dealing with a Visa extension and in the event of holidays, you want to deal with that before the holiday, in my opinion. That's the best time to deal with Immigration stuff. You don't really want to be put under the gun so to speak by only being able to deal with something on a grace period day if you will. So this is something to bear in mind. 

I do understand, some of the Thai holidays are a little bit more obscure for some of the foreigners so they may not be aware. For example we just had international Labour Day and Coronation Day is coming up which is actually a replacement holiday; Visaka Bucha voices coming up which is a religious holiday; Royal Plowing Ceremony is also coming up. Again all of these a little less on the radar of most foreigners than some of the other bigger holidays like International New Year for example or you know His Majesty's Birthday, or his late Majesty's Birthday. Those are kind of the more well-known holidays or Songkran for example, sort of everybody is aware of Songkran, Thai New Year. But these are kind of holidays that are a little bit more obscure for folks so again if you do find yourself in a position where "oh I got down to the Immigration Office and they are closed" and you want you are worried, you're fretting, don't fret too much. There is one grace period day on the next following day when Immigration opens but that said, if you can at all avoid having to deal with it in that manner, you are probably better off.