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6 minutes ago, stubby52 said:

Just did my 1st 90 day after re-entry and was told if returning to same address new tm30 is not required,this is at chonburi office i am on retirement ext.

Doing a 90 report in person isn't the same as the two online systems (TM 30 and TM 47) cross checking passport and addresses

docinbangkok any update? Did you go out and ask them who called, or have someone (like a thai) call the number back and as what it was about? 

4 hours ago, Liquorice said:

I stand to be corrected, but I've known Immigration to refuse a 60-day extension to visit a Thai child, when you're not legalised as the Father, and/or, the child is not living with you.

I'd check the requirements at your own IO before making your plans.

I have not personally seen or heard of immigrations denying 60 day visit thai family extensions because the foreign father doesn't have legal parental rights.

Usually birth certificate, mother's thai house book listing, thai i/d, child's house book listing should work.  

Now year extensions are a totally different kettle of fish

15 hours ago, Rob Browder said:

haven't read reports of denied return-entry at any of those entry-points - maybe you have new info, though.  One definitely must pay the Cambodian side their cut if coming back the same day - or spend overnight on the Cambodian side,

Totally correct, I know of no denial of entries at those borders that I mentioned although I do know that they sporadically do enforce the must stay in Cambodia overnight rule, but as you mentioned there is a way to pay and not stay 😉 

9 hours ago, zmisha said:

Processing time is very bad.
But Cambodian immigration does not waste the entire passport page of a western tourist like Laos does.
Cambodian visa can be printed separately without the need of wasting passport pages.

If you buy an e Visa online before you go you only get the entry exit stamp to cambodia, if you buy the visa on arrival at the border you get a sticker and it takes a full page of your passport

I apologize for giving you bad information early on, I thought it was a pretty straightforward thing that can be done at all land borders all the time.

Evidently it is not as easy as I remembered.

And I just got a reply from a company I messaged up here in Bangkok and this is what they said.

So it can be done it just can't be done at every border every day.

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

and

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.

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

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.

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

You can only buy an ox Visa in your country of passport origin or a country that you have permanent residence in

On 7/26/2024 at 6:42 PM, Charlatans said:

There is an agent outside Vientiane embassy that can organize a time for you if nothing online for 2000B.

Not the best option but might help.

Just curious, when did you last use the "agent outside the embassy" ?

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

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.

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.

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

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