E-visas - Please help me understand that one thing :)

[Baron Samedi]

Just had a look at the Thai e-visa website and read the documentation.

The service seems to be incredibly useful but there's one thing that I don't understand.

So you ask for a visa online, you pay for it online, you wait and then you can download it online.

But what then ?

Are you suppose to print your e-visa out and paste it in your passport yourself or do you keep it as a PDF or something on your phone ?

How does it work exactly?

 

[Martin71]

Just print it out and show it at immigration/passport control when you arrive and they will put a stamp in your passport. Also download a copy onto your phone just in case.

[Baron Samedi]

11 minutes ago, Martin71 said:

Just print it out and show it at immigration/passport control when you arrive and they will put a stamp in your passport. Also download a copy onto your phone just in case.

Makes sense. Thank you, Martin ????

[Misty]

11 hours ago, Martin71 said:

Just print it out and show it at immigration/passport control when you arrive and they will put a stamp in your passport. Also download a copy onto your phone just in case.

Just adding to be sure to check carefully the stamp in your passport before you leave the IO's desk at the airport.  Recent experience:  E-visas for two different travellers arriving together, same IO, but two different passport entries - one correct, the other not.  The latter had to be corrected after the fact as a different gov't office wouldn't accept it.

 

On the passport entry that had to be fixed, IO had scribbled an unreadable date for "enter until" (a date that could be interpreted as 3 months expired already) , scribbled an indecipherable type of visa, and did not write "E-visa" at the bottom of the entry . Only the entry stamp date was correct.  Interestingly, the different gov't office ruled that the second person's passport entry was fine.

 

Live and learn. We had actually checked at the time and could read the clear, correct, entry date stamp but that doesn't go far enough apparently.