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Why are you not coming back 

Relocating. Started doing work online so will be a problem to get a long term visa here.


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Thank you, everyone for your answers.
Since I’m leaving Thailand and won’t really come back, then I think I will try to just go through airport and not bother reporting.
Might be lucky enough not to pay:))


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So this is the situation:

 

Had to do a 90 day report on September 10th, but completely forgot. The workplace usually used to take care of these things, so simply never really bothered to track dates too much. But the management changed and the help with immigration reporting came to an end. :))

 

Leaving Thailand in one month anyways, so should I bother doing this report? Will IO stop me and ask to pay the fine in the airport while leaving?

Non-Immigrant B Visa + work permit holder.:)

 

Thank you.:)

 

 

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A month ago, I had no problems. But I prepared all extra info like flight tickets, bank acc statement (added an extra zero to my balance lol), hotel reservations and so on.
I was worried that they wouldn’t issue me another tourist visa in my fresh passport, but they did no questions asked.
On the other hand, my South African friend, prepared all docs as well, buuuut he had quite w few exemptions in his passport, so the consulate interviewed him and edited his tourist visa sticker to transit.

So if you don’t have a history of long stay on exemptions, or if you hold a new passport, you’ll be ok.




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My statement was from July 15th and I applied on August 12th. They checked my docs and it was all ok, got my visa.

Tho I was worried about the dates too.

But my balance was more than 20k so maybe that’s why they didn’t complain.

 

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The same happened to me about six months ago.

I was coming back from Beijing with a re-entry permit on my ED visa.

I had like another three months left on it. After that, I had to get another six months for last level of reading and writing Thai, but my passport ran out of pages, so that’s why I had to go to Beijing, where the closest embassy of my homecountry is.

Anyways, I was making my way back to Thailand through Suvarnabumi airport. This old, sour faced IO looked at my passport and told me “You Russian you work in Pattaya” in a really rude way. I told him that I am not Russian and that I am a student. I do speak good Thai so thought he would then be a bit nicer to me. Boy was I wrong. He was asking me to call my school and let him talk to some managers. I told him that it was 4 o’clock in the morning and they are all at home sleeping... he had enough and asked another officer to interview me.
This woman was really <deleted> off too. She was not happy about my few tourist visas two years ago. I told her that me and my fiance were traveling at that time, he got a job and a work permit, I decided to study Thai, so he supports me and I’ve been a student ever since. She asked me if I can speak Thai, I told her that I can read and write too and that I want to finish all levels of it, that’s why I’m planing to stay another 6 months here studying.
She wanted to check if my fiance really exsists so asked for his name and date of birth. She was gone for some time, then came back and told me that yep she found him having a non-b visa. Then she told me it’s better if I studied in university not in a language school.
And after an hour of this she let me in.
Was not the most pleasant encounter, especially that first officer was kind of a <deleted>. Other ones were angry, but only doing their job.

After all, I haven’t been back home to my country not once in those three years of visas. So I can understand their concern. And I’m sure, people with long history of visas most likely will be questioned, doesn’t matter you have a re-entry permit or not.


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This was the case for me too. They used to call it “express line”.

Turn up at immigration in Chaengwattana, call your school, they call the officer, school calls you back and tells you where to go. No waiting for 5 hours in line, extension done in max 20minutes.

Pay around 3000 baht, but get a receipt saying only 1900.

I’m sure it’s “under the table” kinda system.

To be honest, I used it and loved to cut in line and be done with it.:))

Oh yea, and getting 3months instead of two.

 

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My mate had like four or five visa exemption stamps in his passport and went to Savannakhet to apply for tourist, they accepted his application. Next day, while trying to get his passport back from the consulate, he was told to come in for an interview. He had the sticker of the new tourist visa in his passport already, but they still wanted to talk to him. After an hour long interview, they crossed out “tourist visa” off the sticker and changed it to “transit” which is only 30days.

On the other hand, I’ve done my tourist visa application there August 13th. I had bank statements, flight tickets, hotel bookings, passport copies and so on. In my new passport I had only one tourist visa with extension (spent 89 days, coz I left Thailand a day earlier). Got the next one no problem.

If they had seen my history, four tourist and two years student, probably would have told me to pack up and go elsewhere.
And all those exemptions really didn’t help my friend too.

Soooo, be prepared for anything. Have all kinds of proof and have a plan B.:)



Here’s a pic of tourist/transit situation.




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ไม่มีวีซ่า (mai mee visa) means doesn’t have a visa


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I was in KL three months ago. I only had accomodation booked for 2 weeks as I didn’t know where I’m gonna go next after that. The girl who was working there asked me why I had only two weeks. I explained to her that I will book as I go. She was fine with that and accepted my documents. Got the visa next day. Everything went smooth.


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What make you think that I am bitter?  You asked for advice and I gave you some.  In the second paragraph of your original post you stated the following:
 
"I will go to my last visa run adventure next week. And I really need your advice on what to do if denied entry".
 
The recommendation that I provided was perfectly reasonable given what you has posted in another post (Denied Entry at Suvarnabhumi on METV) about your friends experience who was allegedly denied entry at Suvarnabhumi on Tuesday and who as a result of a lawyer's intervention was released from detention within two hours.

I want information about land borders, when you are able to walk out of there free. It’s a bit different, isn’t it?:)


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Any one of them. They are all friendly.
Same for a Cambodia crossing other than Poi Pet.
Crossings to Myanmar is also good.
Malaysia you might be told you have to stay overnight before re-entering.
 

Thank you very much:) this is really helpful:)


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OP....  With a history like yours, I would recommend that before you go on your so called 'visa run adventure next week', you ask your friend who allegedly got denied entry at Suvarnabhumi on Tuesday, and then released within a "couple of hours", for the name and phone number of the lawyer who expedited his/her release from detention.
 
It is  obvoius the lawyer is able to push all the right buttons with lmmigration so you shouldn't have any problems if you get stopped.

Why so bitter?:)
Detention and getting deported back is one thing.
Being free after denied either in a consulate or on land crossing is another. I’m simply wanting info on where people go after this occurs.



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With visa exemptions, which border crossings to use in Laos?

Probably gonna need to use my first exemption ever haha.:))


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Oh, by the way, Laos will cancel my exit stamp? Do I understand correctly, that I won’t need to reapply for a new visa to Laos?


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We have not seen a single report of somebody being denied there (if they had a valid visa or didn't have two visa exempts on land borders in this year already).
So the chance that you will be denied entry is very close to zero. In case Thai immigration would deny you, Laos immigration will cancel your exit stamp and you can go back into Laos.

Yeah, my pals telling me not to worry and just go for it. But I rather prepare for the “worst” than be lost and sorry I haven’t checked this info beforehand.
This thing of staying 180 days in Thailand (don’t know what specific visas ppl are talking about or if this 180 thing is even real) makes me think, coz my ED ended in 21st of May this year, now I’m finishing my first tourist this year. So just wondering do they really pay a lot of attention to the number of days a year staying on particular type of visa or this thing is just as unclear as everything else. (Lol)

Anyways, is there any limit to Laos visas on arrival?

Thanks for your reply:)


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Sorry for mistyped words [emoji55]


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Sorry to post this on Thai immigration topic forum, but barely get any replies in the “other countries” section.

 

I will go to my last visa run adventure next week. And I really need your advice on what to do if denied entry.

 

Will I be able to get back to Laos same day?

Will my thai visa still be valid?

Anyone ever used Savannakhet airport?

 

My basic plan is, if I get denied entry, just gonna make my way to Vietnam.

 

And for those wondering why am I worried about getting entry denied, well I had like four tourist visas three years ago, decided to stay here and study Thai, while my partner is working. I completed two years of Thai language studies speaking three levels, reading and writing two levels. Unfortunaly my passport was full of stickers so I had to apply for a new one, so last Thai reading and writing level paperwork for visa got delayed and I’m forced to get tourist visa. But anywhere I go I get stopped by Immigration and questioned for like an hour just coz of my previous tourist visas. Understandable and I’m not worried if they will decide to stop letting me in.

 

So, Laos visa stamping out and coming back in same day, possible?

I mean stamping out of Laos, getting denied at Thai border then trying to go back to Laos. Information about this would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks! [emoji1303]

 

 

 

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You get to fly where you want to go based on where the Airlines flies.
 
But most often the Airlines you flew in on, will only fly back to the country you came from. Such as Ukraine Air, there are no flights that go from BKK-Laos on Ukraine Air or Cathay Pacific, you most likely have to fly back to that country the plane comes from... so if you fly in on an airline, and get denied, you need to fly out on that same airline wherever they have a BKK-XYZ flight and 99% of the time, it will be back to where you came from. 
 
I used Thai Airlines, and they have many routes flying out of BKK- Laos, Singapore, Malaysia, etc. So if you're lucky and flew in on Thai Airlines and got denied, you can fly right into Laos and enter through the border on the same day.

Good to know. Thank you. :)


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I got one for 11months and then another one for 11months. Never had any problems. Just the Thai levels should be correct as in you can’t have a beginner and then again a beginner of lets say speaking. Probably depends on a school too. But I at least was doing speaking first year all three levels and then reading writing levels.
Tho important thing is 15hours a week of studying. Then I’m sure you can get it.


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But as I know, people say, if you really wanna be safe, go through land crossing.


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It's gonna be tourist visa in new passport,not ED visa.

They will see your previous entries. Also two years non stop in Thailand is a long time. And now a tourist one. They might ask you what are you doing in Thailand and are you working.

I flew in from Malaysia with a tourist visa in a new passport. They asked me those questions, coz they saw loads of entries. I told them I used to study Thai, but now I’m on holiday, while waiting for paperwork for my last Thai reading and writing level. I was asked if I can provide them with the old passport where my ED’s were, I did that, officer looked at it and told me to have a nice day. He just wanted to make sure that I really had ED’s previously for two years. This was at Don Mueang.
In Suvarnabhumi they are usually more angry at me:))

Just prepare stuff to prove that you aren’t working and were a genuine student now on holiday for whatever reason:) you should be fine.


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They were angry, coz I did have few tourist visas before my ED visas.


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They will probably ask you questions. But just tell them your situation, have proof of studying, like a letter from the school and stuff. Have funds available. And be able to speak Thai if it’s Thai language ED visa.
I get questioned all the time. Once they were really angry at me, so I had to provde my partners name and birth date for them to check if he is really working and holds a work permit and supports me. Since everything was in place and I had all those extra bits of papers proving one thing or another, I was fine and free to go.
Also I had to show my old passport too, coz as I understood, they see the entries, but they don’t see the types of visa (I might be wrong). I showed them my old passport where my old ED visas were and they let me go.



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I studied from 1pm to 3pm Monday to Friday. Never had any problems, only on re-entry once, when I was coming back to Thailand after three nights in Beijing, which I had to visit since it’s the closest city where my embassy is. I had to apply for a new passport and I wasn’t able to do that in China. Immigration questioned me coz I had few tourist visas before. But they let me go since I had all the proof that I am studying and I do speak read and write quite good in Thai.
I wanted to have less hours a week, but my school told me that if I do study less than 15h a week, my skills won’t be good enough to pass MOE tests and immigration won’t issue me further visas.
The school I am studying at do not cut corners and prep documents properly also advising everyone to attend required hours in order to avoid unexpected visa issues.
There are those who offer less hours, but it seems this doesn’t work anymore and more student visa holders get problems just because of not enough hours stated in papers.
But maybe there is more to this.


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