Hello,

I wonder if you knowledgable travellers can help me. The issue does not involve Thailand per se but it is about travelling through Asia and I will need to make a stop in Bangkok anyway.

I've just come back from a Myanmar meditation retreat and I want to go again, this time applying for a meditation visa as opposed to staying on a tourist visa as before. I have valid British and Croatian passports.

The complication is this, it may take up to 6 months to get this visa and I simply don't want to wait that long, I am happy to stay in the UK for a maximum of 3.

Is it legal to apply for the visa with the British passport (for example, it could be other way around) and travel to Thailand on the Croatian passport, then when the British passport is stamped with the Myanmar meditation visa, I have it sent over to me and use it to enter Myanmar. I assume as the Croatian passport has the IN stamp for Thailand I would have to use it for exiting and then present the other (British) passport when arriving in Myanmar.

Does anyone see any legal problems with this, i.e. in the case of landing cards or having passports sent overseas by mail. I was told it was illegal to send the British one overseas, is this true? I want to do everything correctly to avoid being roughed up by the regime

I was told it was illegal to send the British one overseas, is this true? I want to do everything correctly to avoid being roughed up by the regime

courier services do not accept passports or IDs since a few years. sending a passport by other means i deem too dangerous.

As long as you use the same passport to leave a country as you did to enter it then you will not have a problem. Nor will you be doing anything illegal, provided you are entitled to both passports, of course.

However, having a passport 'sent over' to you! Are you mad?!

As long as you use the same passport to leave a country as you did to enter it then you will not have a problem. Nor will you be doing anything illegal, provided you are entitled to both passports, of course.

However, having a passport 'sent over' to you! Are you mad?!

Ok that takes a lot of worry off. By the way, I phoned DHL (in the UK) and asked them about sending passports. They said its legal, safe and they do it all the time. I asked three times just to be sure.