Thai e visa impossible

[supersomchai]

I have applied a few times and got my thai e visa 60 day tourist visa 

(to visit family).length of stay will be 58 days this time.

But this time the e visa site refused

to accept my upload of my passport

page ,i have tried scan from printer photo from phone (all under 3 mb size ).

flying mid may any suggestions would be very very welcome .

[theoldgit]

Let's try this in the correct forum

[supersomchai]

Sorry which is the correct forum ?

[supersomchai]

More to the point are there any issues with the e visa site at present

with so many people applying 

is it working correctly never had this problem before.

 

[Upnotover]

Just for fun (I am easily amused) I went through an application.  No problem uploading the passport photo (1.5MB jpeg).  The one error message that did occur was that it could not read the data and it needed manually entering - I am sure in the past the data has been automatically read and inserted in the form.

[supersomchai]

I used the old passport scan which i used for my last application 6 months ago and it was rejected.

when you say manually entered 

is that the drag and drop option

i tried that too.

ill keep trying ☹️

 

[Upnotover]

1 minute ago, supersomchai said:

when you say manually entered 

I was referring to the machine readable section of the passport which the form reads and self populates.  The photo uploaded without any problems.

[supersomchai]

19 minutes ago, Upnotover said:

I was referring to the machine readable section of the passport which the form reads and self populates.  The photo uploaded without any problems.

When i upload the passport it does appear in the box where its supposed to go but a message appears top right saying its not correct (not exact words).

i try to complete the whole page and see if it accepts me pressing next ?

[Upnotover]

27 minutes ago, supersomchai said:

When i upload the passport it does appear in the box where its supposed to go but a message appears top right saying its not correct (not exact words).

i try to complete the whole page and see if it accepts me pressing next ?

That message is the machine readable message.  If you enter everything manually you can progress to the next page, sounds like it's working fine to me.

 

"Biodata Page of Passport

We were unable to retrieve data from the MRZ. Please enter your passport’s biographic information manually."

[supersomchai]

Away from pc at work ,will try tomorrow see if i can get to next page .

its such a pity you cant get the visa in person at the thai embassy itself or the consulates (hull and Cardiff closed now ).used to be so pain free ..

[chris carre]

Why apply for a tourist visa at all.Just fly in visa excempt 30 day,s then apply for a 30 day extension a week before your excempt entry permission to stay end,s.That will give you 60 day,s in the kingdom.Total cost 1900 baht

[supersomchai]

40 minutes ago, chris carre said:

Why apply for a tourist visa at all.Just fly in visa excempt 30 day,s then apply for a 30 day extension a week before your excempt entry permission to stay end,s.That will give you 60 day,s in the kingdom.Total cost 1900 baht

Thats a good option but i heard many immigration offices ramo at 

present so i wanted to avoid them.

I guess there is no word yet if they are keeping the 45 day visa on arrival (up for review 31st march ?

[JimTripper]

Forget scanning things.

 

Take a color picture with your phone. Turn the photo on your phone under edit, save it as landscape orientation so it uploads and fills the whole entire space.

 

You don’t want ratty pics up there. Take photo’s of documents.

Edited March 31, 2023 by JimTripper

[JayClay]

6 hours ago, supersomchai said:

top right saying its not correct (not exact words).

If you can provide the exact words it may make it easier for somebody to assist you.

[sandyf]

1 hour ago, JimTripper said:

Forget scanning things.

 

Take a color picture with your phone. Turn the photo on your phone under edit, save it as landscape orientation so it uploads and fills the whole entire space.

 

You don’t want ratty pics up there. Take photo’s of documents.

Wrong to say things like that.

I have only ever used scanned images and never had a problem.

[supersomchai]

2 hours ago, JayClay said:

If you can provide the exact words it may make it easier for somebody to assist you.

Will do ????????????

[geisha]

8 hours ago, supersomchai said:

Away from pc at work ,will try tomorrow see if i can get to next page .

its such a pity you cant get the visa in person at the thai embassy itself or the consulates (hull and Cardiff closed now ).used to be so pain free ..

I gave up on evisas since they began. My home is in France, it was so easy before to apply directly at the consulats, Monaco, Marseille, Paris , Lyon. I get online visas to loads of counties from,Australia to Burma to Cambodia and the americas. Never had a problem. The Thai embassy in Paris is a disaster and so unfriendly you wouldn’t believe. So no help there. If I really  needed the visa I would apply through one of two good Paris agents and pay the price. It’s bad publicity for Thailand that they can’t arrange a good visa process,

 

[ian carman]

I used my iPhone and all my photos were accepted .The ones that were to big I emailed them and changed the size and I think did something with idrive to upload them 

[Lemsta69]

10 hours ago, supersomchai said:

I used the old passport scan which i used for my last application 6 months ago

Take new photo?

[ian carman]

5 hours ago, supersomchai said:

Thats a good option but i heard many immigration offices ramo at 

present so i wanted to avoid them.

I guess there is no word yet if they are keeping the 45 day visa on arrival (up for review 31st march ?

You won’t be allowed on the plane at Heathrow 

[Lemsta69]

5 hours ago, supersomchai said:

Thats a good option but i heard many immigration offices ramo at 

present so i wanted to avoid them.

I guess there is no word yet if they are keeping the 45 day visa on arrival (up for review 31st march ?

it's a Visa Exemption not a VOA and yes it's been confirmed that the 45 days has reverted to 30 days today, 1st April 2023, as expected...

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1290889-45-day-visa-exempt-entry-program-officially-over/#comment-17991077

[supersomchai]

Depressing news i dont have the option to get a visa on arrival that makes getting this damm passport upload more pressured.

iam worried my passport photo may have faded .

Anyway will keep trying no other

options now ☹️

[ian carman]

7 minutes ago, supersomchai said:

Depressing news i dont have the option to get a visa on arrival that makes getting this damm passport upload more pressured.

iam worried my passport photo may have faded .

Anyway will keep trying no other

options now ☹️

You have the throwaway ticket option which some of the experts on here can explain to you .Basically you buy a cheap ticket out of Thailand within the 30 day VOA period so it looks like you are not staying the full 58 days in Thailand 

[Lemsta69]

28 minutes ago, supersomchai said:

i dont have the option to get a visa on arrival

Of course you don't, VOA is only available to 17 or so countries and the UK is not one of them. You are, however, entitled to a 30 day visa-free stay under the Visa Exemption Scheme. This is extendable once for an additional 30 days.

Edited April 1, 2023 by Lemsta69

[DrJack54]

2 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

additional 39 days.

Typo....30 days. 

[supersomchai]

2 hours ago, Lemsta69 said:

Of course you don't, VOA is only available to 17 or so countries and the UK is not one of them. You are, however, entitled to a 30 day visa-free stay under the Visa Exemption Scheme. This is extendable once for an additional 30 days.

So i wont be refused boarding the flight to thailand (Eva air) if i tell them i have no visa but that iam going to get a visa exempt when i arrive ??

[ian carman]

7 minutes ago, supersomchai said:

So i wont be refused boarding the flight to thailand (Eva air) if i tell them i have no visa but that iam going to get a visa exempt when i arrive ??

As long as your return flight is within 30 days .If not you have to get Evisa or explore the throughaway ticket option 

[ian carman]

11 minutes ago, supersomchai said:

So i wont be refused boarding the flight to thailand (Eva air) if i tell them i have no visa but that iam going to get a visa exempt when i arrive ??

I’m here for 58 days flew in with EVA and the first thing they checked at booking in was my e visa 

[Salerno]

16 minutes ago, supersomchai said:

So i wont be refused boarding the flight to thailand (Eva air) if i tell them i have no visa but that iam going to get a visa exempt when i arrive ??

Airlines don't care about a visa per se, they know you will get 30 day visa exempt on arrival (assuming you're flying on a UK passport). They do care if you have an outward flight within that timeframe (the fact you can get a 30 day extension to the visa exempt is irrelevant). So ...

 

2 hours ago, ian carman said:

You have the throwaway ticket option which some of the experts on here can explain to you .Basically you buy a cheap ticket out of Thailand within the 30 day VOA period so it looks like you are not staying the full 58 days in Thailand 

i.e. if your flight isn't flexible, you can buy a throwaway ticket for approx US$10-15 or, just have it set up on your phone ready to buy if asked for at check-in (not 100% guaranteed you will be, depends on airline and airport but a very good chance you will be).

 

For example:

 

https://onward.flights/

https://bestonwardticket.com/

https://onwardticket.com/

https://onewayfly.com/

etc.

 

 

Edited April 1, 2023 by Salerno

[ian carman]

7 minutes ago, Salerno said:

Airlines don't care about a visa per se, they know you will get 30 day visa exempt on arrival (assuming you're flying on a UK passport). They do care if you have an outward flight within that timeframe (the fact you can get a 30 day extension to the visa exempt is irrelevant). So ...

 

i.e. if your flight isn't flexible, you can buy a throwaway ticket for approx US$10-15 or, just have it set up on your phone ready to buy if asked for at check-in (not 100% guaranteed you will be, depends on airline and airport but a very good chance you will be).

 

For example:

 

https://onward.flights/

https://bestonwardticket.com/

https://onwardticket.com/

https://onewayfly.com/

etc.

 

 

The OPs return flight will be after 58 days in Thailand.I think he believes he can just turn up at Heathrow and say that he will get an extension and they will let him board but they won’t