Current situation in Vientiane regarding consecutive TV?

[3stan]

I've got 4 back to back TVs from Vientiane..but still no warning stamp. I was planning to get a last one before i get my new passport..but then there was this notice apparently saying they might get more strict. Im due to go there next week. Does anyone know if people with no warning stamp have been refused a TV so far? If not..i might give it a shot.

 

Thanks

[elviajero]

You could get denied even without a warning stamp. But the odds are that they will issue the visa - almost certainly - with a warning stamp.

[BigT73]

Hey Stan,  if you end up going can you let us know how you went. Cheers!

[3stan]

 

48 minutes ago, BigT73 said: Hey Stan,  if you end up going can you let us know how you went. Cheers! yep, will do.

[3stan]

update: got granted another TV, so thats the 5th in a row from Vientiane on same passport. Got the blue warning stamp though. 

[darrendsd]

Great that you got 5 - despite this notice and then the usual over reaction on here 

 

Also nothing on the TVS site about them restricting TV's which would suggest to me nothing has changed at all

 

https://www.thaivisaservice.com/

 

[3stan]

10 hours ago, darrendsd said:

Great that you got 5 - despite this notice and then the usual over reaction on here 

 

Also nothing on the TVS site about them restricting TV's which would suggest to me nothing has changed at all

 

https://www.thaivisaservice.com/

 

ya, seems business as usual from what i could see. If not, i would be the prime canditate for being denied another TV.

[JackThompson]

13 hours ago, darrendsd said:

Great that you got 5 - despite this notice and then the usual over reaction on here 

 

Also nothing on the TVS site about them restricting TV's which would suggest to me nothing has changed at all

 

https://www.thaivisaservice.com/

 

Interesting how that "notice" appeared and disappeared so quickly.  It seems that there is a behind-the-scenes struggle on frequent-tourist policy.  Perhaps, in this case, a payment for the "more strict" policy was not made.  Given the volume-sales there, it would not be a cheap payment. 

 

More frequent rejections at the airports would be more cost-effective, in terms of the desired-effect - harming Thailand's appeal to Western visitors to reduce their numbers.

[Essecola]

Very fishy indeed how that notice just made a short cameo.

[darrendsd]

13 hours ago, JackThompson said:

Interesting how that "notice" appeared and disappeared so quickly.  It seems that there is a behind-the-scenes struggle on frequent-tourist policy.  Perhaps, in this case, a payment for the "more strict" policy was not made.  Given the volume-sales there, it would not be a cheap payment. 

 

More frequent rejections at the airports would be more cost-effective, in terms of the desired-effect - harming Thailand's appeal to Western visitors to reduce their numbers.

Probably down to the Immigration Officers at Nong Khai who I very much suspect get a nice monthly bonus from the Visa Run companies to be lenient on TV runners - the fact that virtually no one has issues at that border no matter what their history is to me suggests they are the I/Os are being well looked after

[finy]

I thought the notice was at Savannakhet?

[Essecola]

The notice was outside the Vientiane Thai consulate. In Savannakhet at least they are asking to see 20,000b on a bank statement which weeds out at least some riffraff. That and the fact it is an extremely inconvenient city to travel to.

[Metapod]

I remember the days of easy double entry tourist visas in Las. It was the way to go when I first moved to Thailand.

 

Vientiane must have lost a TON of money based on the tightening of tourist visas