Entry and Exit Requirements

Visa conditions change regularly. Contact the nearest Embassy or Consulate of Thailand for the most up to date information. Australian tourists travelling to Thailand on an Australian passport may currently enter Thailand for up to 30 days without obtaining a visa in advance. This is referred to as a “visa exemption”. A visa is required for longer stays or for travellers intending to work in Thailand.

The Thai Immigration Bureau announced revised tourist visa regulations which took effect from 1 October 2006. Australian travellers can enter Thailand for up to 30 days each entry, up to a maximum stay of 90 days. Tourists who reside in Thailand for 90 days must depart Thailand for at least 90 days before they will be permitted to re-enter Thailand, unless they obtain a valid visa entry at a Thai Embassy of Consulate in another country outside Thailand.

The Australian Embassy cannot assist you to obtain entry permits or visas, visa extensions or work permits for Thailand or other countries. Make sure you obtain visas, entry permits and extensions of stay from Thai immigration authorities or a Thai Embassy or Consulate.

Avoid individuals advertising visa extension services, as they may stamp passports with fake or illegally obtained exit and entry stamps. Australians with illegal stamps in their passports can be arrested and jailed for up to ten years. Thai authorities have said they will vigorously prosecute these criminal offences.

Overstaying your visa in Thailand is considered a very serious offence and may result in prolonged arrest and detention. Travellers who overstay entry permits may not be allowed to leave Thailand until a fine is paid. The fine is currently 500 Baht per day, up to a maximum of 20,000 baht. If you can not afford to pay the overstay fine you may be arrested, taken to court, charged with a visa offence, and required to serve a lengthy prison sentence in lieu of the fine. Travellers who have overstayed their visas may be imprisoned, deported and placed on an immigration blacklist to prevent from them returning to Thailand.

It is illegal to work without a work permit. In the past, some employers (particularly schools, fitness centres, securities telemarketers and currency traders, and also other businesses) have promised to arrange work permits but have not and their employees have consequently been arrested, jailed and deported from Thailand.

Before boarding a departure flight at Bangkok international airport, you will be required to pay an airport terminal fee of 500 Baht. Payment is only accepted in cash.

Good information but do you have a link to view this document? Am concerned with the following as in my understanding of English it is wrong:

unless they obtain a valid visa entry at a Thai Embassy of Consulate in another country outside Thailand.

You obtain a "visa entry" at a port of entry into Thailand - not at an Embassy or Consulate.

Good information but do you have a link to view this document? Am concerned with the following as in my understanding of English it is wrong:

unless they obtain a valid visa entry at a Thai Embassy of Consulate in another country outside Thailand.

You obtain a "visa entry" at a port of entry into Thailand - not at an Embassy or Consulate.

Maybe it should read "valid entry visa".

That would be much better and is why wanted to see the original document. Hard to believe any proof reader would have missed that.

That would be much better and is why wanted to see the original document. Hard to believe any proof reader would have missed that.

http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/Thailand

That would be much better and is why wanted to see the original document. Hard to believe any proof reader would have missed that.

http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/Thailand

Ah, and another bit of confusion gets stirred into the pot!

It would be nice if the autorities, at least, used the corect terminology.

That would be much better and is why wanted to see the original document. Hard to believe any proof reader would have missed that.

http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/Thailand

Thanks. Suspect this, and a bottle of wine, may explain the error.

This Advice was issued on Monday, 01 January 2007

A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing dont you think?

It is illegal to work without a work permit. In the past, some employers (particularly schools, fitness centres, securities telemarketers and currency traders, and also other businesses) have promised to arrange work permits but have not and their employees have consequently been arrested, jailed and deported from Thailand.

Never hurts to repeat this section, particularly for those that doubt it ever occurs.