Camping in the sun

Yeah, my mate's been here and gone, but thanks for the additional info. Might come in handy in the future.

Excellent, will do. Thank you very much.

Thanks Mr Michael, but could you suggest one?

And yes, my plan is to meet him at the airport, but I'll take the van from Mukdahan earlier in the day. Mukdahan taxis told me 2000 baht to go to Ubon and then 10 baht per kilometre + 200 baht service charge to return, so I won't take the taxi both ways.

I think that spending the night in Ubon might indeed be better and then we can navigate the potholes up north in the morning.

Hello all,

My best friend is flying to Ubon soon and his plane is scheduled to land at 8.45 pm. I called Ubon Taxi and they said it would cost about 1800 baht to take us from Ubon Airport to Mukdahan.

I don't feel that this is excessive, but I was wondering if anybody knows of a cheaper way or perhaps a decent place to stay the night in Ubon in the 500-1000 baht range?

Thanks in advance.

Not exactly a road sign, but the sheer number of typos and mistakes makes up for it.

It's dinner time! Still looking for the byeway, though.

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They have applied for a tourist visa, because the Education Area Office doesn't want to change that one single line in the original document and fax it and Vientiane consulate said that it's not their problem. Also, they were in Savannakhet last week and were denied the visa for the same reason. We then told them to go to Vientiane, since the school never had such an issue before. Feels like being in a Kafka novel...

I'm interested to know when has this become a thing. I know that school documents have to be addressed to the specific consulate where the teachers are applying for the visa, but did not know it's also required for the Education Area Office documents.

Going bonkers here...

Our school sent two Filipino teachers for a Non-Imm B visa to Vientiane. All of the school's documents were in order but the letter from the Educational Area Office stated something to the tune of "To immigration official concerned" as its addressee. The Vientiane Consulate meanwhile wants the letter to be addressed specifically to them. In short, there is nothing wrong with the document, apart from an "incomplete" addressee.

Our deputy director has called the Educational Area Office and they told him that they cannot make that change. I then gave the phone number of the head of the Office to the Filipinos and asked them to try and make a consulate official call the Office. Still waiting for the outcome.

My question, before I explode, is has anybody else experienced that? Is there a way to solve this?

Also, getting a tourist visa and changing it to Non-Imm B at Promenada didn't work, We tried, but the woman in charge was completely unhelpful, asking things like "why is the stamp sideways" and "why didn't you bring two sets of documents". That was at the Filipino teachers' second appointment with that particular individual after she gave them the requirements at their first meeting. Basically, she didn't want to do it, so we sent them to Laos.

Thanks in advance.

Drats...They can be that different.

Thank you again ubonjoe.

Thanks ubonjoe, but he has already extended his visa. He only got 30 days + 30 day extension, though.

I think the best way would be for him to try for a non-B or tourist visa in Laos and then convert it in Thailand. He needs a Laos visa, but he can get that in Khon Kaen.

Surely he shouldn't go all the way back to Africa to get that, should he? Visa regulations for Africans cannot be that drastically different, I should hope.

Well, crap...

Thanks, guys. I'll try to impress the school with the above info and see what happens.

Our school has recently hired a teacher from Ghana, but, due to cock-ups, could not get him the documents in time to change his tourist visa to a non-immigrant B in Thailand, so he will have to leave the country.

From what I read online, he needs a visa to travel to all neighbouring countries except Cambodia, which offers visa on arrival.

He also told me that he knows of Ghanaians who wanted to get non-immigrant B visas in Laos and Malaysia and ran into problems.

So I would like to ask if any of you fine forum dwellers know of any issues regarding the obtaining of a non-immigrant B for Ghanaians. Which country would you send him to? Cambodia seems like the obvious choice, but I've never been there, so haven't got a clue.

Thanks in advance for any info.