Has anyone visited the Savannakhet counsulate (or knows anyone who has) for a tourist visa.

 

I'm just wondering if they've started to relax the rules a bit after becoming a hundred times stricter over the last few months.

 

I've heard a few people say it's getting better.

 

Cheers

A month ago, I had no problems. But I prepared all extra info like flight tickets, bank acc statement (added an extra zero to my balance lol), hotel reservations and so on.
I was worried that they wouldn’t issue me another tourist visa in my fresh passport, but they did no questions asked.
On the other hand, my South African friend, prepared all docs as well, buuuut he had quite w few exemptions in his passport, so the consulate interviewed him and edited his tourist visa sticker to transit.

So if you don’t have a history of long stay on exemptions, or if you hold a new passport, you’ll be ok.




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Two weeks ago was there. They were turning people away left and right, including me... Without any transit visa option (this was at the initial screening phase.) I had only 1 tourist visa (but 4 prior visa exempt land entries and one air entry). The "agency" across the road said only allowing 1 tourist now, but could be random... IDK.

Edited September 22, 20196 yr by happysanook

they are still strict on their own rule " 90 day stay in the past 6 month". 

We do visa run and you can also for info just go through www.thaivisaservice.com. 

You can consider going to HCMC, Vientaine, Yangon, KL, Penang or Kota Bharu.

 

 

Could any one update on situation with student visa here? I want to do student visa here, but got 2 back to back tourist visas in 2016, then 3 back to back in 2018, then none in last 11 months, can it be a problem?

They are a little more relaxed with the 90 day thing, but back to back from the border straight to consulate would be impossible (speaking about people with many tourist visas).