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Tod Daniels

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  1. Okay if you're on a 30-day Visa exempt entry and you have not extended it yet by 30 more days you could get the stamp moved to the new passport when you do the extension

     

    otherwise you show both passports when you exit the country and they will stamp you out on the new passport and make a notation that you'd entered on the old one

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    you can indeed leave by land and come back in.

     

    You are not trading country passports you are swapping an old passport for a new passport from the same country and that can be done by land

     

    And you cannot get that stamp moved at the main immigration office up here in Bangkok Chaengwattana, Visa exempt entry stamps and extensions are moved at IT Square Laksi Plaza.

     

    If you're just going to bounce out and back for a new free entry talk to one of the agents that run from jomtien, there's one that leaves every day from Queen Vic hotel I believe. They shouldn't have a problem with you bouncing with both passports.

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  2. 4 hours ago, steve187 said:

    you are not allowed to change passports at a land border ie changing from a USA passport to a UK passport, so maybe its the same with a replacement passport. whereas you can at an airport border

    Careful with that answer there, they got a new passport and they're trying to swap an old for a new passport from the same country it would appear and that can be done at a land border without any issue at all

  3. At this time it would appear there is no problem bouncing out and back to get a 60 day entry stamp as the 60-day Visa exempt entry by land was recently made unlimited.

    Meaning if you've already milked your two 30 day entries this year by land you should be able to get out and back in on a 60-day entry stamp without any issue as long as you pick the correct border <-by that I mean don't try to exit re-enter at the Aranyaprathet Poipet border.

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  4. There are no financial requirements to get the 90-day single entry non-o visa

    Based on either marriage to a thai or supporting a Thai child.

     

    Birth certificate,

    mother's thai ID,

    mother's house book listing,

    child's house book listing if you have it.

    Your passport, three passport size photos, one to get into lao at the border, two for the application,

    copies of the data page of your passport, your lao visa, your lao entry stamp and a filled out application

     

    Remember the Thai consulate in Savannakhet now requires mandatory online booked appointments to get in the gate, and they have three business day processing counting the day you apply

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  5. Totally BS,

    The services that bounce people out in back at the Cambodian borders get you out and back the same day.

     

    Just had a service the other day that needed 18 vans to take the people who showed up that morning to the border and everybody got out and back the same day and everybody got a 60-day stamp,

     

    that's 180 people who are living proof you don't need to stay out overnight

     

     

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  6. You might get out and back on your own at these borders with Cambodia

    Ban Laem/Duang Chanthaburi

    Ban Pakard/Phsar Prum Chanthaburi

    Kap Choen/Osmach Surin

     

    There is a very high chance you will not get out and back at the Aranyaprathet/Poipet border.

     

    Those "I'm going to bounce myself and save money" ideas often end up not saving you any money.

  7. In many many hundreds of non-immigrant type O applications that I have seen go through section C1 out at Chaengwattana I have never heard of or seen an application denied after you applied paid the 2,000 baht and got a return date on your receipt. And I will add I have never ever heard of anyone reporting C/W asking for a backhander to do a Non-O visa..

     

    How about you dial back the paranoia a notch or three, call that number and see what they want or better yet, slog on out there and say you missed the call and you wanted to see what it was about.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, docinbangkok said:

    i think she wants "tea money ".  I was told , like everyone else to come back in 14 days for the visa , so i do not think she would call me a half hour later to tell me my visa was approved .

     

    You don't get told to come back in 2 weeks it should be on the blue green receipt for 2000 baht to come back on this date (two weeks out) for your results

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  9. I think what you had heard was, some of the services that take people to the Cambodian borders charge an extra fee for people on non-immigrant type visas or extensions whether the extension is canceled or not to get out and back at a Cambodian border the same day.

     

    That is totally something the officers at the borders there charge.

     

    You won't have any issue at all and there won't be any special fee to get out on a 90-day single entry non-o visa with the Nong Khai border. It's the Cambodian crossings that are doing that and only some of them

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  10. 8 minutes ago, Chivas said:

    You aint getting in more than twice (whether air or land) in the same calendar year via the new 60 day VE entry.
     

    Time will tell.

    Let's see how it plays out, BUT right now no one can dispute that a THIRD free stamp land entry this year is possible. Probably a couple THOUSAND people have that 60 day land entry stamp after already having their TWO free 30 day entries by land this year

    Guess it'll take someone who has taken two 30 day free stamp land entries, their first 60 day land entry (maybe a 30 day extension), their second 60 day land entry (maybe another 30 day extension) and THEN goes to try for the 3rd 60 day free stamp entry by land

    Get back to me in about SIX MONTHS 😜 as that's about the soonest we'd know if  😮 


    Actually that isn't gonna work either because there's only FIVE months left in this year, so no one could get more than 2 60 day land entries (with 30 day extensions) before the year rolls over and as you say the count 'resets'

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  11. can you post an image of the bottom left of the PDF approval they sent you that shows the next report date? 

    Just curious, when does your current extension run out? I ask because several people got "short" 90 day report dates because it only approved them until their current stay stamp expired 

    Might not be why yours was short though 😕 just a thought

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