I don't have a visa. At least not in my passport. 

I got an e-visa in the data bank of immigration,  but no proof of it.

I did print it out and keep the print-out with my passport, but it's really just a pdf that anybody could have produced. 

I have always worried a bit about this. 

 

An Yu Ching claims, police said her visa was unacceptable and must be printed in her passport with an offical emblem. 

If I were police, I would think so, too.  If I were police,  I would never have heard of so-called "e-visa".

So my worries about my visa just got a bit bigger.

 

How can I prove that I do have a visa? Is this really  not necessary?

 

 

 

 

My LTR Visa is just a stamp in my passport and the quality leaves much to be desired.  The digital work permit is another issue as well, and now you can have a digital license for driving by using the DLT App so you do not need to carry the license with you.....whats next retinal scans.

1 hour ago, Lorry said:

How can I prove that I do have a visa? Is this really  not necessary?

You won't need to.

Stop worrying. 

 

Plenty of folk get eVisa everyday. 

In fact I'm going to Vietnam with one this week.

Have screenshot of the evisa on your phone and email of confirmation if you have any concerns. 

You've got an eVisa in the database and a print off.  That's needed for immigration when you land.  The IO will put a stamp in your passport with an "admitted until" date.

 

The police in country may check your passport, they will look for this stamp indicating how long you can legally remain in Thailand.  I don't believe they have any need to see your eVisa, but you will of course keep it with your passport.

 

The lady on instagram was extortionated for 27,000 baht.  She had a valid visa-on-arrival that the police claimed was not official.  They lied.

 

18 hours ago, Lorry said:

How can I prove that I do have a visa? Is this really  not necessary?

No, it is not necessary. When you enter the country the visa gets you a stamp in your passport stating how long you can stay in the country, this is general, I have just been to Laos on an E-visa. The police should only check if your permission to be in the country is valid. It would however be prudent to keep a copy of the visa on your phone.

When I went to Vietnam I entered visa exempt but my friend had an E-visa, immigration kept that and we both had the same stamp in passport without any indication of visa.  Laos marked my entry as Tr-B3(Tourist Visa) and Thailand marked my entry as being a Non-O E-visa.

Unless your visa is multi entry it effectively becomes invalid on entry.   Previously they would stamp the visa in your passport as "USED", bit pointless with an E-visa as it can be reprinted.

The only time you should need to show a copy of the visa is when applying for extension at immigration, that may depend on office but mine did get checked.

Any police officer who genuinely wants to check a foreigner's immigration status would know how to do so, or know to contact a colleague at immigration if unsure.

 

Any police officer who's just looking for an excuse to extract money from a foreigner, on the other hand, would be flexible enough to make up an excuse no matter what's in the passport.

First , you should always have printed copies of important documents, and on your phone / email address. Secondly, you are on the immigration arrivals data base . Even the Thai police are capable of checking this if they have a doubt/ or you have committed an infraction. The lady from Taiwan was accused , correctly or not, of using e Cigarettes, which are forbidden in Thailand . She accuses them of extortion. 

You were stamped in when admitted, that's all you need.

 

Removed an off-topic post and the replies to it.

On 1/30/2023 at 8:55 AM, sandyf said:

The only time you should need to show a copy of the visa is when applying for extension at immigration, that may depend on office but mine did get checked.

Yes. I produced my printout of the e-visa at Suvarnabhumi Immigration. My passport was stamped with 90 days and manuscript note ' e-visa '. I was asked for a printout when I applied for 1 year extension. That has been the only time.

On 1/29/2023 at 1:39 PM, Lorry said:

I don't have a visa. At least not in my passport. 

I got an e-visa in the data bank of immigration,  but no proof of it.

I did print it out and keep the print-out with my passport, but it's really just a pdf that anybody could have produced. 

I have always worried a bit about this. 

 

An Yu Ching claims, police said her visa was unacceptable and must be printed in her passport with an offical emblem. 

If I were police, I would think so, too.  If I were police,  I would never have heard of so-called "e-visa".

So my worries about my visa just got a bit bigger.

 

How can I prove that I do have a visa? Is this really  not necessary?

Your e-visa should have a QR code on it. Scanning the QR code should take any interested party directly to the record of the e-Visa in an official data base.  I don't see how this could be faked.  Just keep a copy of the e-Visa with you - paper copy in passport, and/or a photo on your phone or other device. 

15 hours ago, Kalasin Jo said:

I produced my printout of the e-visa at Suvarnabhumi Immigration

What do you mean with printout of the e-visa ?

A Copy of the approval email ?

1 minute ago, Sato said:

What do you mean with printout of the e-visa ?

A Copy of the approval email ?

Yes.

With my recent one the approval email had a link and that opened the actual evisa.

I then took screenshot and printed it. 

Note that was eVisa for Vietnam. 

Imagine similar steps for eVisa to Thailand. 

My Thai e-Visa was a pdf file attached to their mail.

I printed this pdf file out.

Seems to be the way the world is heading - my wife recently came to the states, they checked her through immi, scanned her passport and sent her on her way to the domestic terminal. I checked her PP and found her exit stamp from Thai but NO entry stamp for the states. Found out later you had to open a form I-90 and print your recent travel history to see she was checked into the states.

Thailand likes to follow 'good' ideas w/o admitting it wasn't their idea so expect to see this type of form soon if not already in place.