BangkokHank

1 minute ago, Farmerslife said:

Not according to Google 

 

No, a valid US tourist visa does not allow entry into Thailand for visitors who would otherwise require a visa. Thailand has specific visa exemptions and on-arrival visa options for certain nationalities, but a US tourist visa is not one of them, according to the U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Thailand. You must either be from a country that is exempt from needing a visa for Thailand, or obtain the appropriate Thai visa before traveling. 

 

It seems improbable, worth checking with the Thai Embassy in whichever country you currently reside?  

Thanks. That's very clear. So I wonder why that article whose link I provided said that it was possible.  And I wonder about the other countries on the list.

By the way, I live in Thailand on a retirement extension. But I was thinking of moving to Vietnam and dropping my retirement visa, and just visiting Thailand a few times a year. But if I cannot enter Thailand with my US tourist visa, then this would not work, as I wouldn't want to apply for a visa every time I visited Thailand. So I'll just keep the Thai retirement visa and visit Vietnam on tourist visas.

2 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

I'm confused.

 

Come to Thailand, show them your American passport.  Do the digital arrival thing.   Get a STAMP (not a Visa, just a visa-exempt stamp) for 60 days that can be extended in-country for 1900 baht (another 30 days) and start there.

 

A vaid US Tourist visa has 0% importance in Thailand.  Mods can correct me if I'm crazy.

 

 

You've totally missed the point. I am not a US citizen. I am a citizen of a country whose citizens need a visa to enter Thailand. I happen to have a valid tourist visa for the US. Some countries (listed on the website for which I provided the link) allow people to enter without a visa (when they otherwise would need one) IF they happen to have a valid US tourist visa. (This is because they trust the strict US vetting system.) So to repeat my question in a slightly different way: Has anyone who needs a visa for Thailand been able to enter Thailand without a visa by using their valid US tourist visa? Thanks.

I read on this website (scroll down to country number 16 on the list):

https://voyeglobal.com/visa-free-countries-with-us-tourist-visa/

that it is possible for people who need a visa for Thailand to enter the country visa-free if they have a valid US tourist visa. Can anybody confirm this? Has anybody tried it?

Thanks.

11 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

Or be an Indian with a gold necklace.

That's something that I'll never have to worry about being.

59 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of hate speech.

Yes it does. Freedom of speech means freedom of speech, including speech that YOU deem to be hate speech. I suppose you would approve of hate speech against Kanye? 

"I'm very rich. So bring me all your food. And also lend me 4,000 baht to pay the tips."

It would have never occurred to me to borrow money from a restaurant. I'll try that the next time I eat out.

2 hours ago, hotsun said:

 

Cognitive dissonance. The countries that have nukes and havent used them probably wont but iran will

So the countries that have nukes haven't used them and probably won't, but the country that doesn't have them (Iran) WILL use use them? Talk about cognitive dissonance.

8 minutes ago, 0ffshore360 said:

Private Hospitals are an elective option. 

If Government Hospitals were eliminated I would then agree with you.

Foreigners used to pay the same as Thais at government hospitals. Ten years ago I paid 9,000 baht at a government military hospital for a procedure that required me to spend three nights at the hospital. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that foreigners now have to pay much more than Thais for treatment at government hospitals.

4 hours ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

India is now more modern and also cheaper - and they all speak English.

Good point. Thanks for reminding me of that. I recently got a five-year tourist visa for India, so the next time I need a hospital for anything significant, I will just pop over there.

4 hours ago, Cat Boy said:

You're making a distinction without a meaningful difference to the context of the story of the crash that killed 270 nor this, apparently, sole survivor. 

 

If an Irish person had gained British citizenship, would you be be equally butthurt about some perceived challenge to YOUR British-ness? 

 

Its NOT about you. 

 

270 people are dead for crying out loud. 

 

Who gives a FF about your Britishness?

I'm not British. And neither is that Indian.

Acquiring British citizenship does not make an Indian British. If I were to get Indian citizenship, do you think the media would refer to me as an Indian man?

Let's try to protest that we have the right to stay in Thailand illegally - and see what happens. Ha.

20 hours ago, DTL2014 said:

probably nab him when he goes to do his visa..

Or his 90-day report.

On 6/5/2025 at 12:43 AM, DonniePeverley said:

What a load of nonsense. 

 

Get yourself of to a racist forum. 

If not wanting to have your once great country destroyed by Third World riff-raff brought in to deliberately destroy your country makes one a racist, then I'm a racist too.

How could and why would a bank restrict the amount of money that you transfer INTO your account? And what would happen if you transferred an amount that would exceed their limit? Would they just send the money back to your foreign bank account? It really doesn't make sense that a bank would restrict inward remittances. Transfers OUT of Thailand, possibly. But inward transfers, why and how?

Do they REALLY keep statistics on phone thefts in Vietnam? My phone was stolen in Ho Chi Minh City a few years ago, and all three of the police stations I visited wouldn't allow me to file a report. They even accused me of trying to file a fake report for the purpose of committing insurance fraud, but I didn't have any insurance on it. 

I'm pretty sure that getting water from one of those (dirty) machines for several years was the cause of my bladder stones a decade ago. Now I get my water delivered every week or two from Sprinkle.

Don't they read the news? Is it really worth the risk?

In Vietnam, every Grab motorcycle taxi driver carries an extra helmet for their passengers. That's the right way to do it. But I can't see them doing that here in Thailand. And it would be impractical for occasional passengers to always have a helmet with them just in case they might decide to take a Grab bike.

Hamas might have wanted Kamala to win, but the Israelis wanted Trump to win - and they're the ones who decide US "elections".