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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing Sticker Date versus Stamp Date on a Thai Visa.

For those who are unaware, when you get a Visa at a Thai Embassy abroad, generally it is going to be a sticker that is put in your passport. There is an expiration date on that sticker. That means you have to use it for entry to Thailand by that date. At the same time, when you arrive in Thailand through Thai Immigration, you can be stamped into Thailand and your date of expiration on that stamp can be different from the sticker date noted on one's Visa; this can happen both to the benefit of the applicant or the entrant and it can also be in a way viewed as detrimental. So for example, if someone has a 90-day Business Visa, they arrive in Thailand a month prior to that Visa's expiration, they are is still going to be given a 90-day stamp. They will have lawful status which moves past the expiration of the sticker date.

At the same time, if you have a multi-entry Business Visa, O Visa, Retirement Visa, it may be possible that your stamp date, your date of validity, may be substantially less than the date noted on the sticker. So for example, a Non-Immigrant multi entry B Visa, Business Visa, may have a sticker validity of 1 calendar year but, if you are stamped in on that type of Visa you only get 90 days at entry. So, you need to be aware of this differential; the difference between the sticker date and the stamp date of your Thai visa. 

If you are stamped into Thailand for 90 days, notwithstanding what the date is on your Visa sticker, that 90 days is what pertains to your lawful status in Thailand for Immigration purposes and you need to be aware of that and comport yourself accordingly.