Best place to avoid red stamp

[Freed1948]

I currently have 7 tourist visas plus 2 land border [this year]

1 from home country, 1 Penang , 2 Savannakhet and 3 Vientiane.

Where would it be best to go and avoid a red stamp?

Thanks

[overherebc]

Home for an METV?????

[sanemax]

Vientiane and Savanakhet should both be OK for one more , BUT a risk

[elviajero]

Your home country.

 

If applying in SEA it would be best to avoid Loas. 

[jenny2017]

Better fly home and come back. 

[Freed1948]

5 hours ago, sanemax said:

Vientiane and Savanakhet should both be OK for one more , BUT a risk

Thanks! What's the risk?

[sanemax]

5 minutes ago, Freed1948 said:

Thanks! What's the risk?

You might get a red stamp

[Freed1948]

21 minutes ago, sanemax said:

You might get a red stamp

Thanks! I was under the impression that Savannakhet did not issue red stamps.

I was more worried about rejection at the border.

[darrendsd]

14 minutes ago, Freed1948 said:

Thanks! I was under the impression that Savannakhet did not issue red stamps.

I was more worried about rejection at the border.

This has been advised on this forum however nobody can be certain, your PP must be close to full with all those stamps? Personally I would go to Vientiane, I got 4 from there before the red stamp (which is actually black nowadays)  if you do get one it's time to get a new PP

 

With your history I would avoid everywhere else apart from Laos and I would certainly avoid coming in through either BKK Airport on a International flight, with your history you could certainly encounter problems, the land borders at Laos are more friendly 

[BritTim]

If you want to avoid a "red stamp", Penang and Phnom Penh are definitely out at this stage.

 

Savannakhet is safe. You would also almost certainly be OK (as far as getting the visa is concerned without a red stamp) in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Yangon and Hong Kong. The last of these is more expensive, but best of all.

 

When returning through an airport with your long history of tourist entries, there is definitely the prospect of some questioning. When you have a visa (as opposed to entering visa exempt) the risk of being denied entry is actually very low, as long as you have 20,000 baht cash equivalent and a good explanation for wanting to stay so much in Thailand.

[chrisinth]

As you have already used two land crossings this year, that may screw with your options further.

[3421abc]

Time to change passports. A passport full is visas and stamps will put you under scrutiny. I made this mistake and had to bribe my way in. Now I change passports every other year. 

[Freed1948]

11 hours ago, BritTim said:

If you want to avoid a "red stamp", Penang and Phnom Penh are definitely out at this stage.

 

Savannakhet is safe. You would also almost certainly be OK (as far as getting the visa is concerned without a red stamp) in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Yangon and Hong Kong. The last of these is more expensive, but best of all.

 

When returning through an airport with your long history of tourist entries, there is definitely the prospect of some questioning. When you have a visa (as opposed to entering visa exempt) the risk of being denied entry is actually very low, as long as you have 20,000 baht cash equivalent and a good explanation for wanting to stay so much in Thailand.

Thank you!!

[ThaiWai]

57 minutes ago, 3421abc said:

Time to change passports. A passport full is visas and stamps will put you under scrutiny. I made this mistake and had to bribe my way in. Now I change passports every other year. 

This is gonna be a problem one day

[overherebc]

45 minutes ago, ThaiWai said:

This is gonna be a problem one day

Agree.

New passport will help to get the visa but it will be linked to your old one in the Imm' computer so all your previous 'ins' 'outs'  will show.

[steve73]

Question to the OP...  Just out of interest, have you made use of 30 day extensions to any or all of these?

 

Question to others who may know... Would extensions increase the scrutiny at either consulates issuing TV's or arrival Immigration offices at borders?

[Geordie Boy]

17 hours ago, sanemax said:

You might get a red stamp

Classic hahaha 

[darrendsd]

17 minutes ago, steve73 said:

Question to the OP...  Just out of interest, have you made use of 30 day extensions to any or all of these?

 

Question to others who may know... Would extensions increase the scrutiny at either consulates issuing TV's or arrival Immigration offices at borders?

At consulates no, At borders yes

[Lungstib]

2 hours ago, 3421abc said:

Time to change passports. A passport full is visas and stamps will put you under scrutiny. I made this mistake and had to bribe my way in. Now I change passports every other year. 

Which for some countries may be easy but for a Brit........ Oh dear.

[darrendsd]

1 hour ago, Lungstib said:

Which for some countries may be easy but for a Brit........ Oh dear.

So easy to do for a Brit, why would you think otherwise?

[Freed1948]

7 hours ago, steve73 said:

Question to the OP...  Just out of interest, have you made use of 30 day extensions to any or all of these?

 

Question to others who may know... Would extensions increase the scrutiny at either consulates issuing TV's or arrival Immigration offices at borders?

All of them!

[Freed1948]

To the poster who sent me a Personal Message, sorry I missed it, could you send it again?

[afm171]

On 4/8/2018 at 11:05 PM, BritTim said:

If you want to avoid a "red stamp", Penang and Phnom Penh are definitely out at this stage.

 

Savannakhet is safe. You would also almost certainly be OK (as far as getting the visa is concerned without a red stamp) in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Yangon and Hong Kong. The last of these is more expensive, but best of all.

 

I'm confused. There are no land crossings in Penang, Hanoi, Hong Kong, etc. and no Thai immigration at any of those places airports, so how does it make a difference?  

[juice777]

Savannakhet Savannakhet Savannakhet Savannakhet.Don't Even think about going anywhere else.If you got them in the Order you wrote them in then Vientiane is now a high risk.Play it safe and go to Savannakhet, this is mine

 

Tripple from London

Double from Vientiane

2 singles from Vientiane

7 singles from Savannakhet

 

No red stamp

 

Make sure you have a Bank Statement and a flight out you will be OK

 

I am getting a new passport soon then I will be getting 2 in Cambodia

2 in Vientiane

Then back to Savannakhet

 

Unless the Rules or my circumstances change.

 

Unfortunately I will have to avoid Vietnam because I don't want to take the risk flying but I might go over land coming back through Cambodia.And I am not even thinking about Malaysia.

 

 

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[elviajero]

3 hours ago, afm171 said:

 

I'm confused. There are no land crossings in Penang, Hanoi, Hong Kong, etc. and no Thai immigration at any of those places airports, so how does it make a difference?  

The “red stamps” being discussed are issued by the embassy/consulate, not at borders. They are a message saying the person may be refused more visas in the future.

[Swimman]

Not necessarily - Some Embassies/Consulates are known to count all visas, regardless of where they were obtained.

[pearciderman]

20 minutes ago, Swimman said:

Not necessarily - Some Embassies/Consulates are known to count all visas, regardless of where they were obtained.

 

Which?

[ubonjoe]

2 minutes ago, pearciderman said:

Which?

Penang and Phenom Penh are 2 that do.

[Freed1948]

Just to update: I went to Vientiane and was given a new Visa with no questions asked there and at the border.

Did notice that the visa was just a stamp rather than the stick on one with typed details of name and PP number etc.

Assumed this was just time/cost saving by the Consulate..

 

 

[NanLaew]

13 minutes ago, Freed1948 said:

Just to update: I went to Vientiane and was given a new Visa with no questions asked there and at the border.

Did notice that the visa was just a stamp rather than the stick on one with typed details of name and PP number etc.

Assumed this was just time/cost saving by the Consulate..

 

Or they've run out of blank stickers (again).