Hello! I’d much welcome your advice and any guidance.
I have a UK passport. I’ve travelled to Thailand once for two weeks just over a year ago on a visa exemption with no problems and that’s my only history with the country.
I’m arriving in a couple of weeks time for a week in Bangkok intending to seek a. Visa exemption at the airport. Thereafter, I am in Cambodia and Vietnam before returning to Phuket after about fortnight. I figured that this would be permitted after some research: a second 30 day visa exemption. I then have an internal flight after four days on Phuket to U-Tapao for another two weeks in Thailand. However, after a stay in Rayong, I’m now thinking of a hop to Lao for a few days before returning to Bangkok for a few days before my flight home. This would be three visa exemptions over a five week period, all by flight and all with confirmation of future flights and a confirmed return booking to the UK.
It is clearly tourism but I don’t have time now for a multiple entry visa application as I leave in two weeks (and there are occasions in the six months, perhaps only one or two, where by current account balance has dipped below £5k). No stay goes beyond 30 days but will three visa exempt entries by air over five weeks raise immigration officers’ eyebrows? If so, I will simply come back from Vietnam to Phuket with a new 30 day visa exemption stamp and stay in Thailand taking only internal flights, as I can’t risk being denied entry.
Thanks I’m advance for any guidance.
