Question About 59 Day Visa

[AlwaysRt]

Yesterday I arrived in Cebu Mactan Airport and went to the immigration office to apply for my 59 day visa. 

 

I searched the world over and thought I found true love... OOPS sorry, had a Hee-Haw flashback. I searched the forum over for "59 day visa" but the search ignores the quotes and gives to many unrelated results to my question. 

 

When arriving at NAIA or Mactan, where exactly is the office we need to find to get the 59 day instead of 30 day visa? When I arrived at NAIA last week I came down the 'connecting flights' side of baggage claim and didn't see an office to go to. Not a big deal for me last week but when I leave/return next week I will be staying for ??? so the 59 day visa makes sense.

 

Moderator's Edit.  Topic Split.  Please do not hijack other threads.  It does not take long to start a topic.

Edited January 31, 2016 by Dave Hounddriver

[luke]

At NAIA-1 left side BEFORE the immigration booths.(glass door)

[jai_ren]

 

Yesterday I arrived in Cebu Mactan Airport and went to the immigration office to apply for my 59 day visa. 

 

where exactly is the office we need to find to get the 59 day instead of 30 day visa?

 

the 30-day stamp is not a visa. In fact, a visa is exactly what it is not. That's why it's called a visa-EXEMPT or visa-WAIVER stamp.

[Jollygoodfellow]

At NAIA-1 left side BEFORE the immigration booths.(glass door)

 

The OP was asking about Cebu. The office used to be to the left before immigration counters in Cebu if I recall correctly but may have changed since the last time I was there.

[gusincebu]

Its not a 59 day visa .. its your 30 day visa waiver + 29 day extension .

After that you can get a 59 day extension or a 6 month extension.

[jai_ren]

your usual 2nd extension is not 59 days. It's two months, which is variable and can be anything between 59, 60, 61, and 62 days.

 

if you want you can pay a very little bit less and get a one month month extension after your first 59 days are up - this can be anything between 28 and 31 days, depending on what month it is.

 

with visas and extensions the words the BoI uses are all over the place. They do use the word extension but sometimes they say visa too. When you get the extension past 59 days, you have to pay for a 'visa sticker'. Although I must confess I am not sure what a 'visa sticker' is supposed to be. Maybe it's the guy who sticks the visa in your passport. 

[Jollygoodfellow]

your usual 2nd extension is not 59 days. It's two months, which is variable and can be anything between 59, 60, 61, and 62 days.  

 

VISA WAIVER

Who can apply?

Non-visa required tourists admitted initially for thirty (30) days and is requesting for an initial extension of twenty-nine (29) days

[jai_ren]

 

your usual 2nd extension is not 59 days. It's two months, which is variable and can be anything between 59, 60, 61, and 62 days.  

 

VISA WAIVER

Who can apply?

Non-visa required tourists admitted initially for thirty (30) days and is requesting for an initial extension of twenty-nine (29) days

 

 

 

yeah, but after those first 59 days are up, you can get a one month, two month, or 6 month extension each of which is a variable number of days.

 

so if you get the 2nd two month extension in February, and it is not a leap year, you will get 59 days (because the next month, March contains 31 days).

 

but if you get it in December or July, those are the only 2 months of the year when you get 62 days because December and January, and July and August,  are the only consecutive months in the year that both contain 31 days.

 

six month extensions are also variable.

[Jack Peterson]

so if you get the 2nd two month extension in February, and it is not a leap year,

 

OK, lets Split hairs, These extensions are calendar Months not days, No matter what month you are in if you get the 1st Extension on or before the 28 of any Month that is your Extension date. If you extend on the 29th or 30/31 it will only be be shown as the 28th then the 28th of the Month will be your date. That way you may loose 2 or 3 days but next time it will fall right.

How do I know? Easy, for the 3 years prior to my 13a the 28th was my Extension date. Although I arrived on the 31st

 

Jack

[jai_ren]

I can believe that, but remember that only applies, to one (the 30th) or two (the 31st) days per month - and also one day every four years which is when February 29 comes round.

 

if you get your first post-59 day extension on any other of the days of the month from 1-28, which are days that all 12 of the months have, all they will do when you get your stamp be it one, two or six months will give you until the same day of the month however long the extension is. So if you are there on the 15th of February and want to extend for one month your expiry date will be 15th March and you have to be out of the country by midnight on that day. For two months, 15th of April. For six months, 15th of August.

 

in reverse, people sometimes say that you get one month visa-waiver upon arrival at the airport in the Philippines and Thailand, or three months in Malaysia and Singapore. But you don't get one month, and three months. You get 30 days, and 90 days respectively.