I have entered and re entered thailand now at a total of 3 times so have left the country to go to cambodia. I was looking into fed exing my passport home to the consulate but now read its unlikely you'll get a non immigrant o multiple visa whilst being outside your home country, anyone know the restrictions on this???

anyway now posting my passport seems a bad idea however the consulate told me if i was granted a three months visa i could re enter thailand asap upon recieval of the visa??

I have heard you can get a two month visa from Kuala lumpor?? does anyone know if this is true and if so, would it matter that ive already been in thailand for 3 months and entered 3 times or would my visa make me now exempt from this???

any info would be great as i need to get back to thailand asap and this is driving me a bit mad,

thanks in advance!!!

Matt

What matters is 90 days. If you have been in Thailand for 90 days with visa exempt entry since end of October you will not be allowed to return to Thailand without a visa. You can obtain a tourist visa in either Laos or Malaysia easily. But if you are really in Cambodia you may have to request a visa there and that is not likely to be as easy.

Sending your passport overseas for a visa is very dodgy and could land you in serious trouble.

I had also used my 3 times up and went last Wednesday to Penang. Applied on that day and received the next day without any problem a 60 day

tourist visa. This can be extended for another 30 days.

After the 90 days have been used up, the following options remain:

- do another 3 times VOA

- apply for a non-immigrant B in Bangkok (conditions!)

- get sponsor documents from Sunbelt and apply for a 1 year multiple entry O outside South East Asia

Edited January 27, 200719 yr by sniffdog

You could mail your passport and it should work because before the consulate issues your visa, they will look for the last exit stamp from Thailand, which you will have. But you would need to mail your passport to a family member or friend first and then they would put it in a local envelope and mail it to the consulate (they might get suspicous if the passport arrives from overseas, all though you are out of thailand) After your passport is returned to you family/ friend's address, they can mail it back to you in Cambodia. However, you risk getting busted for not having you passport in Camdobia or you risk loosing it in the mail, so Fed Ex it. You also risk spending alot of money in mailing costs, accom and wasting time if the visa were to be refused. If they embassy will give you a 1 year Non O for sure, id go for it, if not, just go to another Thai embasy to get a tourist visa.

If you are married to a Thai, take your marriage cert to the consulate/ embassy in Phnom Phen, i know they wont issue you a tourist visa but they do issue Single entry non O visas if its your first time there and you are married, good luck.

When you enter Cambodia you are stamped in, when you exit you are stamped out. If you obtain a Thai visa from another country during that time it was not properly issued and will not be accepted when immigration officers take a normal look at your passport.

Lop, you mean to say that Thailand would be checking your passport stamps after exiting Thailand? This seems unusual

They will check his passport on entry and if he tries to use a visa issued in farangland while his passport stamps clearly show him in Cambodia that visa is not going to be honored; if noticed. With the new checks I believe that chance is much greater than in the past.