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The Royal Thai Embassy in New Delhi prices a Tourist e-Visa (TR) for Indian applicants at a fixed ₹3,000 for single entry or ₹13,500 for multiple entry — a rupee figure the embassy sets directly in its own dated notice, not a baht amount left to a bank's conversion rate. This page is the fee structure alone: what Thailand's diplomatic missions in India charge before you fly, and what Thai Immigration separately charges in baht after you land. It is not about the free 60-day visa exemption, covered on [Thailand visa for Indians](/thailand-visa-for-indians), and not about the free Digital Arrival Card every entrant still has to file, covered on the [Thailand TDAC guide](/thailand-tdac-guide).
What the embassy charges before you fly#
The Royal Thai Embassy in New Delhi and the Royal Thai Consulates-General across India issued a fee announcement on 15 April 2026, effective 27 April 2026 "until further announcement." Its own fee table, cross-checked against the live table still published on the embassy's visa page (marked last updated 21 May 2026), reads:
Visa | Entries | Validity | Stay per entry | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Transit (TS/S/C) | Single | 3 months | 30 days | ₹2,500 |
Transit (TS/S/C) | Double | 3 months | 30 days | ₹5,000 |
Tourist (TR/MT) | Single | 3 months | 60 days | ₹3,000 |
Tourist (TR/MT) | Multiple | 6 months | 60 days | ₹13,500 |
Non-Immigrant (B/IB/ED/O/F/RS/R/M) | Single | 3 months | 90 days | ₹7,000 |
Non-Immigrant (B/R-A/O/M/O-A) | Multiple | 1 year | 90 days | ₹13,500 |
Non-Immigrant (B) | Multiple | 3 years | 90 days | ₹30,000 |
Destination Thailand Visa (DTV) | Multiple | 5 years | 180 days | ₹30,000 |
Long-Term Resident (LTR) | Multiple | 10 years | 1 year | ₹1,40,000 |
SMART Visa | Multiple | 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 years | — | ₹30,000 / ₹60,000 / ₹90,000 / ₹1,20,000 |
Diplomatic / Official / Courtesy | Single or Multiple | 3–6 months | 90 days | No fee |
For most Indian travellers this page exists for one row: the Tourist visa (TR), needed once a trip runs longer than the current visa-exemption window covered on Thailand visa for Indians. Applications from India have run through the official Thailand e-Visa portal, thaievisa.go.th, since 1 January 2025 — the embassy's own visa page states this directly. The portal's public pages describe visa categories and required documents but print no fee figure of their own; the amount an Indian applicant is actually charged at the payment step is this same embassy-set rupee schedule, not a separate portal price.
How the rupee price is actually set#
This is the detail worth stating plainly, because it's easy to assume the opposite. The embassy's own fee notice lists every visa category in a single column headed "Fees (INR)" — no baht figure sits alongside it for comparison, and no conversion happens at payment. The Royal Thai Embassy and Consulates-General in India set the rupee number directly, the same way the UK's Home Office publishes a fixed rupee table for its own visitor visa rather than letting a card issuer convert on the day. That also means the number moves only when the embassy itself revises it — it moved once already in 2026, from whatever the prior schedule was to the current one on 27 April — so a rupee figure quoted anywhere else, including this page after today, is worth re-checking against the embassy's own page before paying.
What Thai Immigration charges after you land — a separate fee, a separate currency#
A second, unrelated fee schedule applies once you're inside Thailand, published by the Immigration Bureau's Bangkok Immigration Division 1 and paid in baht, in person, at an immigration office — not pre-paid from India:
Service | Fee (THB) | Indicative ₹* |
|---|---|---|
Extension of stay | 1,900 | ~₹5,457 |
Re-entry permit, single | 1,000 | ~₹2,872 |
Re-entry permit, multiple | 3,800 | ~₹10,915 |
Issue/change Tourist visa, in-country | 1,000 per entry | ~₹2,872 |
Issue/change Non-Immigrant visa, single | 2,000 | ~₹5,745 |
Issue/change Non-Immigrant visa, multiple | 5,000 per year | ~₹14,362 |
*Indicative only — Thai Immigration's own page states baht amounts, nothing else. The rupee figures above use the same ₹2.87-per-baht cross-rate this site's own Thailand visa for Indians page derived from the Indian Embassy Bangkok's own 2 July 2026 conversion (THB 20,000 = ₹57,446); treat them as a planning estimate, not a fixed price the way the embassy table above is.
The 1,900-baht extension fee resolves a detail the status page had flagged as unconfirmed: Thai Immigration's current fee schedule lists it as one flat figure, without a separate rate for a visa-exempt entrant, a Tourist-visa holder, or a Non-Immigrant-visa holder, and without a note tying it to the outgoing 60-day or incoming 30-day exemption specifically. That confirms the number. It does not confirm whether, or for how long, a given entry route is eligible to extend at all once the 30-day change lands — that's a policy question the Thailand visa for Indians page covers on its own terms, and this fee page doesn't restate it.
The same visa category, two different official prices#
Long-Term Resident and SMART visas each carry two separate fee schedules, depending on which authority and which country you're dealing with. Apply for or renew an LTR visa at the Thai mission in India and the embassy's own table prices it at ₹1,40,000. Convert to or renew LTR status through Thai Immigration once you're already inside Thailand, and the Immigration Bureau's own fee page prices that domestic service at 50,000 baht (~₹1,43,615 indicative) — a different line item, from a different government body, in a different currency. SMART Visa runs the same split: the embassy's India-side fee is tiered by validity (₹30,000 for one year up to ₹1,20,000 for four), while Thai Immigration's own domestic fee is a flat 10,000 baht per year of visa permission (~₹28,723 indicative). Neither page cross-references the other; a traveller moving between the two systems should expect two separate bills, not one converted twice.
Refunds and reapplication#
Thai Immigration's domestic fee schedule carries one blanket line covering every service on it — extensions, re-entry permits, visa issuance and conversion alike: "Fee is not refunded under any circumstance." The Royal Thai Embassy's separate notice for the pre-arrival visa fee carries no equivalent statement in either direction; its announcement and its live fee table both list amounts only. This page treats that specific answer as unconfirmed rather than assuming the domestic no-refund rule extends to the embassy-charged visa fee — if it matters to your application, ask the embassy or consulate directly before paying.
What this page could not confirm#
VFS Global runs application support for a number of Indian visa routes and typically layers its own service charge on top of a government fee. Several travel-guide sites report a roughly ₹500 VFS service charge at some Indian cities for Thai visa applications, but VFS Global's own Thailand-India pages (visa.vfsglobal.com) returned a blocked response on every fetch attempted for this article — directly and through a rendering proxy alike. That figure is left out rather than shipped as an assumed number; if you're applying through VFS, the service charge should appear on their own payment screen before you confirm.
VisaGyan is not affiliated with the Royal Thai Government, the Royal Thai Embassy, the Thai Immigration Bureau or VFS Global; we book nothing and process nothing. Pre-arrival visa fees are quoted directly from the Royal Thai Embassy New Delhi's own fee announcement (dated 15 April 2026, effective 27 April 2026) and its own live fee table on newdelhi.thaiembassy.org/en/page/visa, both read on 27 August 2026. Post-arrival fees are quoted directly from the Thai Immigration Bureau's Bangkok Immigration Division 1 fee page, read the same day. Fees change without notice — verify the live figure on the embassy's own page or bangkok.immigration.go.th before you pay.
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Frequently asked questions
- How much does a Thailand Tourist e-Visa (TR) cost for Indian applicants?
- ₹3,000 for single entry (3-month validity, 60-day stay) or ₹13,500 for multiple entry (6-month validity, 60 days per entry). Both figures come from the Royal Thai Embassy New Delhi's own fee announcement, effective 27 April 2026 and cross-checked against the live fee table on its own visa page, both read directly on 27 August 2026.
- Is the Thailand visa fee for Indians charged in rupees or Thai baht?
- Rupees, and a fixed number at that. The Royal Thai Embassy and Consulates-General in India publish a rupee figure directly in their own dated fee notice — no baht baseline is even listed for comparison — so nothing is converted at a bank's floating rate the way it would be for a dollar- or baht-priced visa.
- How much does it cost to extend a stay in Thailand, or get a re-entry permit?
- 1,900 baht for a stay extension, 1,000 baht for a single re-entry permit or 3,800 baht for a multiple one. These are Thai Immigration Bureau fees, paid in cash inside Thailand after you land — a separate schedule, in a separate currency, from the embassy's pre-arrival visa fee.
- Is the Thailand visa fee refundable if an application is refused?
- For Thai Immigration's own in-country services (extensions, re-entry permits, visa re-issuance), no — its published fee schedule states fees are not refunded under any circumstance. The Royal Thai Embassy's separate notice for the pre-arrival visa fee publishes no refund clause either way, so that specific answer is unconfirmed rather than assumed.