lapster

moral to the story - don't loose your passport

Gutted, I was planning an all-dayer at Immigration today.

Gutted, i was planning an all day drinking session down Immigration today. lol

The people at banana guest house say you can only get 3 TR per yer maximum. They said Apparently it's the farang working as dive instructors illegally (on tourist visas) that spoil it for us genuine tourists spending longer periods in Thailand not working. That's when applying for visas in Penang anyway.

Update:

My new passport arrived exactly 3 weeks after I posted it to Hong Kong and I've just got new 60 day visa in Penang. Sorted.

If you are getting an extension on your 'tourist visa' then dress like a tourist! Shorts t shirt is fine. How many tourists pack jeans or even wear them in the day time on Samui?!

I mailed off my passport application on Friday 30th to Hong Kong. My current thai visa from the Vientiane land crossing expires on the 11th. The race is on!

The last 11 months I have been working in India then flew into Thailand last month on a 30 day visa. Immigration told me on the phone just to take new passport there and they transfer your current visa stamp from old to new passport. Easy. Think I will post off to Hong Kong today as it's not worth the travelling costs and risk again in Cambodia. Brand new passport is 7500 baht then I'll have a clean slate. My current and almost full passport has 7 TR visas since 2007 all done in Vientiane.

Got refused visa at Vientiane yesterday morning. Gutted man. My last TR visa was Aug last year but with the deadly red warning stamp above it saying that I may not get a visa in the future. Gutted man, so I'm back in Thailand with the 15 day visa. The guy said that anybody with that red stamp will be refused a visa now.

What next? I only have 2 pages left in my British passport so I could send off for a new passport from Hong Kong. That or try a different consulate in a diff country? Any thoughts? My flight home is Oct 3rd and was planning to get my new passport then.