Circling around the friendship bridge at Nong Kai / Vientiane?

[Hal65]

Is there any concern with doing a quick exit / reentry from Nongkai into Vientiane and back? I will be exiting with an old passport and letter from my school, and coming back in with a new passport and 30 day tourist stamp.

[Wang Lalker]

if you exit on the new passport exit wont be quick. doubt they will let you exit on the old. need a letter from your embassy too. there is a bank along the wall at laos entry where you can change your baht into dollars dont pay in baht dont go too early or the bank wont be open. make sure your dollars dont have any tears , taxi scammers will be at you even before you get your laos visa. catch the big green bus in the car park if you need to go into vientiane

[elviajero]

You shouldn’t have a problem re-entering with visa exemption.

 

Hand over both passports on exit and the IO will transfer your stamps from old to new passport, and stamp you out in the new passport.

[elviajero]

33 minutes ago, Wang Lalker said:

if you exit on the new passport exit wont be quick. doubt they will let you exit on the old. need a letter from your embassy too.

You exit using both passports.

 

No letter from an embassy is required.

[Wang Lalker]

21 minutes ago, elviajero said:

You exit using both passports.

 

No letter from an embassy is required.

yeah but i have actually done it with in the past 12months

[Hal65]

Hmm, school told me not to transfer the current stamp to the new passport. I will ask him about the letter he plans to give me to handle this.

[ubonjoe]

6 hours ago, Wang Lalker said:

yeah but i have actually done it with in the past 12months

The letter is only needed if doing the transfer at a immigration office. Not needed when departing from the country.

[ubonjoe]

28 minutes ago, Hal65 said:

Hmm, school told me not to transfer the current stamp to the new passport. I will ask him about the letter he plans to give me to handle this.

You current extension stamp that has your permit to stay has to be transferred to the new passport for you to leave the country you cannot depart with a canceled passport. After it is transferred they will stamp you out of the country in the new one.

At Nong Khai they will probably send you to the nearby immigration office to get the stamps transferred.

[Wang Lalker]

2 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

The letter is only needed if doing the transfer at a immigration office. Not needed when departing from the country.

i asked at the chaeng wattana immigration office and they spun the address confirmation from landlord BS in addition to the embassy letter, SO I DID IT AT THE BORDER, where they delayed me for what seemed like hours and pointedly ask me for the embassy letter, from where they actually rang the embassy in my presence from the ph no. on the letter. they only did this after they had pissed around for ages "checking their records". one would think if your embassy was required to supply a letter ,they would have given the letter to you when they gave you the new passport.

 

i vaguely recall something about the british embassy asserting that their shit dont stink and refusing to supply this letter. immigration accedes to this holier-than-thou attitude and lets british pass unmolested. everyone else has to show a embassy letter where ever.

 

 

[ubonjoe]

8 minutes ago, Wang Lalker said:

i asked at the immigration office and they spun the address confirmation from landlord BS in addition to the embassy letter, SO I DID IT AT THE BORDER,

Not sure what you needed to have transferred. If a long term extension of stay it should of been done at a immigration office. Or what border crossing you were using.

A the Nong Khai crossing they do not ask for the letter.

 

[BritTim]

9 hours ago, Wang Lalker said:

yeah but i have actually done it with in the past 12months

Where did you exit? If you left via an airport or the Friendship Bridge at Nong Khai, no embassy letter should be needed, and it should not take that much time (though you, I think, are directed to a different desk for the transfer of the last entry stamp from old to new passport before stamping you out).

[BritTim]

1 hour ago, Wang Lalker said:

i asked at the chaeng wattana immigration office and they spun the address confirmation from landlord BS in addition to the embassy letter, SO I DID IT AT THE BORDER, where they delayed me for what seemed like hours and pointedly ask me for the embassy letter, from where they actually rang the embassy in my presence from the ph no. on the letter. they only did this after they had pissed around for ages "checking their records". one would think if your embassy was required to supply a letter ,they would have given the letter to you when they gave you the new passport.

Which border crossing? Did you have an extension of stay of a Non Imm visa?

 

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i vaguely recall something about the british embassy asserting that their shit dont stink and refusing to supply this letter. immigration accedes to this holier-than-thou attitude and lets british pass unmolested. everyone else has to show a embassy letter where ever

When you pick up a new UK passport from VFS in Trendy, you are routinely provided with the embassy letter. 

[sanemax]

Did this last year on a UK PP and on tourist visas .

When you receive your new UK PP at Trendy house , they will invalidate the old one by cutting a corner off .

   They will also give you a letter to give to Thai immigration , ( I think that the letter stated that the new PP is genuine and could the Thai immigration transfer the invalid old PP details to the new one , something like that )

    You need to show this letter to the I.O. for them to transfer the PP details .

The process takes about 45 minutes , filling out numerous forms , photocopies and the transfer on info on their computer .

   Although the transfer of your Ed/working visa may be a separate issue  , I dont now

[Wang Lalker]

5 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

Not sure what you needed to have transferred. If a long term extension of stay it should of been done at a immigration office. Or what border crossing you were using.

A the Nong Khai crossing they do not ask for the letter.

 

mine was the 30 day visa exemption and that exit wasnt at nong khai.

you could be right about long term visas needing to be transferred across at an immigration office not at the border.

if you do the transfer across at an immigration office with an embassy letter which they take away from you, then you wouldnt have/need that embassy letter to exit at the border