Full guide: Re-entry permits complete guide · Jomtien queues
What the permit does
TM.8 is the Immigration Bureau application for permission to return to the Kingdom while preserving an existing visa or temporary stay permission. It does not create a new stay period. The current official service handbook says Immigration stamps the re-entry permission for the duration of the existing permitted stay.
Check the entry type and the permission-to-stay stamp in your own passport before travel. Do not infer the answer from the visa category name alone.
Single and multiple fees
- Single re-entry: 1,000 baht.
- Multiple re-entry: 3,800 baht.
These figures were rechecked on 1 August 2026 in the Immigration Bureau's English public handbook and in current Thai Immigration service material. A single permit covers one return; a multiple permit can be used more than once while the underlying stay permission remains valid.
Official document checklist
The Immigration Bureau's English public handbook lists:
- passport and one copy, including the biodata page, expiry page, amended personal-information page if applicable, latest arrival stamp, and extension stamp if applicable;
- one completed TM.8 application;
- one 4 × 6 cm photograph taken within the previous 6 months;
- the departure card and copy where the applicant has one; and
- other related documents only in the special case identified by the handbook.
Sign or certify the passport and card copies as the handbook directs. Local officers may ask for supporting material relevant to the passport or stay record, so check the responsible office before travelling.
Official processing sequence
Suvarnabhumi Airport's current AOT service page also lists re-entry as an airport Immigration service. Treat that listing as availability evidence, not a guarantee that an individual application will be completed before departure.
A 2025 Thai Immigration service guide describes the sequence as: complete TM.8, present the application and passport or travel document, pay the fee and receive a receipt, have the case recorded, receive the permit stamp for the remaining stay period, and collect the signed passport.
The guide gives task-level processing times for a complete checkpoint case, but those figures are not a promise of total queue time at Jomtien or any airport. This page therefore does not publish a Jomtien arrival time, same-day guarantee, or airport-counter availability claim.
Before leaving Thailand
- Confirm whether the existing permission is single-entry or already multiple-entry.
- Confirm that the intended return falls before the permission-to-stay expiry date.
- After issuance, compare the re-entry stamp with the existing permitted-stay date and keep the receipt.
- Ask Immigration directly if the stamp is unclear or damaged; no official source reopened for this review confirmed free replacement.
Claims removed from this guide
Unverified Jomtien opening times, same-day guarantees, emergency-arrival advice, airport-counter availability, airline document checks, free replacement, and case-study outcomes have been removed. The official sources reopened for this review support the TM.8 form, documents, fees, process, and link to the existing stay period.
Official sources checked
- Immigration Bureau public handbook: Application for Re-Entry Permit (English), reopened 1 August 2026
- Immigration Division 2 bilingual foreign-language handbook (Thai/English), reopened 1 August 2026
- Tak Immigration 2025 public service guide (Thai/English), reopened 1 August 2026