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Not so easy for someone who lives in the North and therefor asks about Mae Sai.

You can now enter 60 days visa exempt, which can also be extended by 30 days, so you don't even need to apply for a tourist visa.

As a US citizen, you can buy a Cambodian visa on arrival at the border. But as a Thai citizen, why do a border run? You can get an extension at your local immigration office based on being Thai.

That's a quiet and friendly border crossing, so if you don't mind the terrible state of the road to Koh Kong, that's not a bad option.

It's a bit unkind to word it this way. The official Lao visa fees are set in USD. If you don't have USD at hand, Lao immigration officers kindly accept your THB instead, and charge you a service fee for the currency exchange service they provide to you. They could just send you back to get USD. While you're obviously well advised to get USD to avoid paying extra, I wouldn't call it a rip-off as the choice is yours.

Immigration will link your passports in your profile. If you obtain your new passport within Thailand, that happens when you transfer your entry stamp from your old passport to your new passport. If you obtain your new passport outside Thailand, that happens when you enter Thailand the first time with your new passport. Make sure to also bring your old passport along when you show your eVisa that has your old passport number on it.

Do you have a visa sticker or an eVisa?

Well they are public because it's a service provided to the public, specifically, to passengers arriving at Udon airport. You don't hire them privately, you pay 200 baht for your seat and they will leave whenever they are full enough.

Let's call them public minivans, and I think the last time I used one it was 200 baht.

I'd assume (!) that for your flight leg into Thailand, Thailand's APIS will be contacted as part of the automated check-in processing, which would likely result in a "Do not board" message to the airline. Special provisions for airside transfers might have been made, but how to know that for sure without potentially wasting money on an unusable ticket? You could try to ask the airline and see if they give you a definite answer.

Your school is correct, you need new paperwork to apply within Thailand instead of at a Thai embassy abroad. You cannot go to immigration with the paperwork you have.

Respect needs to be earned, not insisted upon. In those 20 years I've followed such cases in Thailand, the court has done nothing to earn my respect. I'll leave it there.

All this talk about laws is just uninformed <deleted>; no laws have been enacted for this particular change. What actually happened: Following a cabinet resolution authorizing the changes in principle, a ministerial regulation was issued by the minister of the interior, countersigned by the prime minister. All within the framework of the existing law, specifically the Immigration Act.

It hasn't changed. That's sufficient space for the Cambodian stamps, but if that's all the space you have left, I'm not sure how thrilled they will be about that.

Just file the TM30 notification online before you go there and take a printout of the receipt along.

1.) No handouts. 2.) Those eligible for deportation aren't allowed to roam the streets until they depart at their own leisure (or refuse to do so, as it were), but are locked up at a detention center instead. Big difference.

How's that interesting? Because they got a passport and managed to travel to Thailand without mommy?

Another thing that works in his favor is that everyone can spell and pronounce his name. Poor Pete Buttigieg, at least two posters here have made him a Buttigeig.

Tim Walz it is, hands down.

Exactly. I value my peace and quiet, and I really need it sometimes.

I don't hate the police. I don't envy them either. In the case of violent scumbags protesting, I think the police should be allowed to use rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons from a distance as required to restore peace and order. Having to fight them one by one with batons and shields causes too many injuries among the police officers.

They deserve each other.

That almost never happens to me nowadays, but when it does, it doesn't annoy me too much, I just try to work around it and move on. Most Thais really aren't conditioned to Thai that is mispronounced by a foreigner though. How many times have I listened in on a foreigner getting most of the tones wrong. Nevertheless, I had no trouble understanding what they wanted to say just from context and from not being focused on the tones religiously, but most Thais seem to be unable to do that.

That's for single-entry visas, which are valid for entry for three months from being issued.

Many expats use the residential address of a trusted friend or relative for that purpose.