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Can I leave after a 60+30 extension and return?

British passport. If I get 60 then the office add-on, can leftover days survive a weekend in KL. The flight is sitting in the cart. I have not extended yet.

Leaving is usually a new entry

If	What people should assume	Not
Tourist exemption / VoA + office extension	Exit uses up that stay. Return is a new stamp	“I still have 12 days left in the passport”
After Gazette	The new category on that entry	2024 arithmetic on a fresh stamp
You hold a visa that sells a re-entry permit	Read that visa (DTV, Non-Immigrant, some TR)	Sticking a re-entry permit on a holiday exemption because a Facebook group did
You only need the days already granted	Do not leave	The KL weekend is the product

Extension is the in-country add-on. A visa run is the Laos thread. This is not legal advice.

Stamp type (exemption vs TR vs DTV) and whether you already left.

Visas and entry

11 comments

Ploy

Holiday exemption: leave and the stay is done. Come back and you are a new person to the desk. I would not spend the leftover days on a KL weekend.

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Kit Rattana

Re-entry permit is a visa product. Sticking one on a 60+30 holiday is Facebook. Read the stamp type first.

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Lukas Weber

If you already extended, stay until the new date unless the trip is worth a new lottery. Gazette may shorten the next stamp anyway.

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Rob Ellison

DTV multiple-entry is a different sentence. This thread is the tourist add-on. Do not paste DTV rules onto a holiday stamp.

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Ian Crowe

A Phuket–KL–Phuket hop after extending is how people reset to a shorter stamp later. Stay, or accept a new entry.

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Freya Holm

Laos run vs this: if you have not extended yet, that is the other thread. If you already paid 1,900, leaving is usually burning it.

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Mint Saelim

TDAC on the way back. Again. It does not keep your old days.

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Jordan Blake

AU exemption. If I extend in Phuket then fly home for a week, I am asking for a new stamp, not the leftover, yes.

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Nora Blake

Coworking the week after a “quick exit” is how you also look like you are working on a tourist entry. DTV thread if that is the life.

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Dan Okafor

1,900 is spent either way if you already paid. Leaving then paying again is two fees plus a lottery. Stay if the days are the point.

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Sophie Bataille

Gulf vs Andaman in October is a coast question. Do not add an international hop just to “use” an extension. Cut the trip instead.

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