6 Months Tourist Visa?

[BKKGIRL95]

Hello~ I am South Korean and I am wondering whether I can apply 6 months Tourist Visa or not?..and If I can, What should I prepare?

Thank you!

[Mahout Angrit]

Hello~ I am South Korean and I am wondering whether I can apply 6 months Tourist Visa or not?..and If I can, What should I prepare?

Thank you!

You can apply for visa to visit Thailand. A tourist visa is valid for 2 months but is extendable in country for another 30 days. If you can get a double entry tourist visa that will give you two visits to Thailand. Each visit will give you 60 days + 30 days extension. You must just leave via a neighbouring country and re-enter Thailand when the first entry expires to get your next 90 days. That gives you the 6 months you require

You apply for the extension at any immigration office within Thailand at a cost of B1900 + passport photo.

Edited March 4, 2007 by Mahout Angrit

[Mahout Angrit]

From the information posted at the beginning of this forum South Korean passport holders can get a visa free entry and will be given 90 days on entry to Thailand. So you could get a single entry tourist visa and do a border run when it expires and re-enter with a 90day visa free entry stamp.

Current regulations prevent you remaining in Thailand for more than 90 days in any 180 days using visa free entries.

[visarunner]

Wrong info by Mahout Angrit , as a South Korean you do not require a Visa to enter Thailand.

Each time you come you are granted a 90day stay , unlimited.

http://www.mfa.go.th/web/2482.php?id=2490

[Krub]

Wrong info by Mahout Angrit , as a South Korean you do not require a Visa to enter Thailand.

Each time you come you are granted a 90day stay , unlimited.

http://www.mfa.go.th/web/2482.php?id=2490

The question was to stay 6 months as a toutist.

Since october 1 you are only allowed 90 days in any 180 days period with a visa free entry.

He will need a visa if he wants to stay more than 90 days within 180 days

[Maestro]

Each time you come you are granted a 90day stay , unlimited. http://www.mfa.go.th/web/2482.php?id=2490

The question was to stay 6 months as a toutist.

Just so that we all know what we are talking about, this is the relevant section of the Royal Thai Police Order 606/2549 (listed in the topic “Thai Immigration Laws, Regulations, Police Orders” at the top of this forum):

3. Passport holder or travel document holder who is the nationality of a foreign

country's government which has been agreed by the Minister and with cabinet approval

and enters into the Kingdom for temporary stay in the purpose of tourism, in accordance

with the Ministerial Regulations: terms and conditions of inspection and visa exemption

and visa types changing, BE 2545, dated 16 August 2545 (2002) under section 13 (3),

shall be permitted for multiple entry into Thailand, by permission of which must not

exceed thirty days per entry with a total period of stay not exceeding ninety days

within six months from the date of the first entry into the Kingdom.

.

Then there is this text on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA):

TOURIST VISA EXEMPTION

- According to the Interior Ministerial Announcements dated 1 October B.E. 2545 (2002), 20 December B.E. 2545 (2002), 18 October B.E. 2547 (2004) and 6 May B.E. 2548 (2005), passport holders from 40 countries and 1 special administrative region – Hong Kong SAR – are not required to obtain a visa when entering Thailand for tourism purposes and will be permitted to stay in the Kingdom for a period of not exceeding 30 days on each visit. Foreigners who enter the Kingdom under the Tourist Visa Exemption category may re-enter and stay in Thailand for a cumulative duration of stay of not exceeding 90 days within any 6-month period from the date of first entry.

...

1. Australia : Commonwealth of Australia

...

20. Korea : Republic of Korea (****)

...

41. Vietnam : Socialist Republic of Vietnam

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(****)Thailand holds bilateral agreements on visa exemption for holders of diplomatic, official and ordinary passports for a visit of not exceeding 90 days with Brazil, the Republic of Korea and Peru. Therefore, nationals of these 3 countries are exempted from visa requirements and are permitted to enter and stay in Thailand for a period of not exceeding 90 days.

Regrettably, I have neither the four Ministerial Announcements mentioned on the MFA web site nor the Ministerial Regulations on which these four announcements were based. If anyone has the links, please post them here.

From the context, I assume that

– the list of countries whose nationals are allowed visa-exempt entry is in the Ministerial Regulation dated 16 August B.E. 2545 (2002), and the Ministerial Announcements dated 1 October B.E. 2545 (2002) and 20 December B.E. 2545 (2002) are based on this Regulation;

– the provision that nationals of Brazil, South Korea and Peru are entitled to 90 days visa-exempt entry is in later Ministerial Regulations, and the Ministerial Announcements dated 18 October B.E. 2547 (2004) and 6 May B.E. 2548 (2005) are based on these later Regulations.

Now, what is an Immigration officer going to do with a South Korean entering without a visa for the second time within 6 months? At best, the officer has a copy of Police Order 606/2549 in his hands. He does not have the Ministerial Regulation mentioned in that Police Order, nor is it his job to double-check whether the information in the Police Order correctly reflects the information of the Ministerial Order. He has no knowledge of the MFA website or Ministerial Announcements mentioned on that website.

What will the officer do with the South Korean? Answer: it is anybody’s guess. On my part, I think most officers will not allow him a second visa-exempt entry for 90 days.

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Maestro

[visarunner]

South Koreans will be allowed unlimited entries and each time they will receive 90days.

The update list for 90days visa free entries is in my hands and include Brazil ,Chile ,Peru , South Korea , Costa Rica and Argentina .

[Krub]

South Koreans will be allowed unlimited entries and each time they will receive 90days.

The update list for 90days visa free entries is in my hands and include Brazil ,Chile ,Peru , South Korea , Costa Rica and Argentina .

Are you sure it allows unlimited back to back visa free 90 days entries ?

Bear in mind the OP wants to stay 6 months in Thailand.

[visarunner]

YES .

BTW, it was the Koreans who invented VisaRun's for their Nationals to Cambodia.

There are still 2 companies who ferry ONLY Koreans daily to the Border.

In case you still doubt enquiry with the Embassy.

All the best.

[Maestro]

YES .

I believe Visarunner knows what he is talking about and I am changing my thinking accordingly.

So here’s an opportunity for unmarried people below the age of 50: get a passport of Brazil, Chile, Peru or South Korea. Just kidding; it can’t be easy to acquire the nationality of one of these countries.

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Maestro

[Mahout Angrit]

I believe Visarunner knows what he is talking about and I am changing my thinking accordingly.

You have more faith than I do after his comment in this thread

[Krub]

YES .

BTW, it was the Koreans who invented VisaRun's for their Nationals to Cambodia.

There are still 2 companies who ferry ONLY Koreans daily to the Border.

In case you still doubt enquiry with the Embassy.

All the best.

The rule of maximum 90 days in 180 does not apply to Koreans, Brazilians, Peruvians ?

Maybe true but I doubt it

[Maestro]

I have the impression that Visarunner has inside knowledge of the business of ferrying visa-exempt runners across the border and back, and he may have had some Koreans on their second run since October 1.

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Maestro