Auto gates?

[proton]

 

If you have a re entry permit do you still go through these new Auto gates on departure at the airport?

[Upnotover]

Yes.

[proton]

Well I went to the auto gate asked the officer can use with a re entry permit she said no go to fast track. People on the fast track waved me back to auto gate, but when I told them re entry permit they stamped me out.

[zmisha]

 

[zmisha]

ME Reentry permit is actually a ME visa.

[zmisha]

3 hours ago, proton said:

Well I went to the auto gate asked the officer can use with a re entry permit she said no go to fast track. People on the fast track waved me back to auto gate, but when I told them re entry permit they stamped me out.

Airport staff are always slow to adopt new rules. In the old COVID times, an airport employee did not let me check in without a test result that had not been needed for entry into Cambodia for a couple of months.

Probably you should just pass through the gates without any questions. 

[Upnotover]

8 hours ago, proton said:

Well I went to the auto gate asked the officer can use with a re entry permit she said no go to fast track. People on the fast track waved me back to auto gate, but when I told them re entry permit they stamped me out.

I have never asked anyone.  Just do it.  Three times now at BKK, re-entered by land once, BKK once and DMK once.  No issues and correctly stamped in according to the re-entry permit date.

[zmisha]

What is this stamper officer for? It is needed to solve non-standard departure problems. When an ordinary employee meets a foreigner who showers him with a bunch of English words he doesn't understand, this is precisely a non-standard departure problem. Therefore, the employee directs the foreigner to the stamper officer.

[proton]

3 hours ago, zmisha said:

What is this stamper officer for? It is needed to solve non-standard departure problems. When an ordinary employee meets a foreigner who showers him with a bunch of English words he doesn't understand, this is precisely a non-standard departure problem. Therefore, the employee directs the foreigner to the stamper officer.

 

Officers are asked simple questions- can use with re entry? that's not showering them with with English they don't understand. It is totally a standard departure question, if they know what they are doing.

[4MyEgo]

On 4/9/2025 at 2:25 PM, proton said:

If you have a re entry permit do you still go through these new Auto gates on departure at the airport?

 

I might be behind the times a little, but last time I left Swampy, it was 2022 with a re-entry, that said, I am off again soon, with a re-entry.

 

can you please advise:

 

1) What are these new Auto gates and what are they used for ?

 

2) Should I go through them ?

 

3) Do they stamp your Passport ?

 

4) I will be travelling with Thai family, so can they also go through these new Auto gates, if I can ?

 

Apologies for all the questions, but trying to stay relevant as I age and the world keeps turning, faster than I can keep up with it.

[Upnotover]

45 minutes ago, proton said:

"if they know what they are doing."

.... which it appears that not all of them do.

[Upnotover]

34 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

 

I might be behind the times a little, but last time I left Swampy, it was 2022 with a re-entry, that said, I am off again soon, with a re-entry.

 

can you please advise:

 

1) What are these new Auto gates and what are they used for ?

 

2) Should I go through them ?

 

3) Do they stamp your Passport ?

 

4) I will be travelling with Thai family, so can they also go through these new Auto gates, if I can ?

 

Apologies for all the questions, but trying to stay relevant as I age and the world keeps turning, faster than I can keep up with it.

1) What are these new Auto gates and what are they used for ?

 

Use on departure at BKK.

 

2) Should I go through them ?

 

Yes 

 

3) Do they stamp your Passport ?

 

No 

 

4) I will be travelling with Thai family, so can they also go through these new Auto gates, if I can ?

 

Yes.

[treetops]

15 hours ago, zmisha said:

ME Reentry permit is actually a ME visa.

 

🤡🤡🤡🤡

[zmisha]

1 hour ago, treetops said:

 

🤡🤡🤡🤡

It has visa number and registered as visa in the system. So if anyone from the airline staff wanted to see your visa you should show your reentry permit. I did not know this and tried to explain to a Chinese airline staff that I had “reentry permit”. But only when I said that it is my visa, they checked its number and allowed me to check in.

[Upnotover]

54 minutes ago, zmisha said:

But only when I said that it is my visa, they checked its number and allowed me to check in.

I don't believe Chinese check in staff have any way to check your visa number.  I think they may have just believed you.

[zmisha]

2 minutes ago, Upnotover said:

I don't believe Chinese check in staff have any way to check your visa number.  I think they may have just believed you.

Maybe but at least one time in my life I saw that airport staff did check the visa number somehow. It was in airport of Shiraz. Thai officer placed wrong “expired” stamp on my ME visa before. So the airline staff did check somehow that visa was not expired and allowed me to check in.

 

[4MyEgo]

21 hours ago, Upnotover said:

4) I will be travelling with Thai family, so can they also go through these new Auto gates, if I can ?

 

Yes.

 

I should have been more specific, i.e. travelling with kids and the Mrs, but thanks anyways. The same applies at my destination when entering, as I recall our last trip in 2022.

 

We all had to go to the counter with the kids, although if it were just me and the Mrs with our E-Passports, straight through after using the machine. 

 

Leaving the country, we had to scan our Passports and get our photo taken, but still had to stop at the counter to get the exit stamp in our Passports.

 

Foreigners with ordinary passports, and children and the disabled, although holding e-passports, would still be required to go through the ordinary channels manned by officials.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2703086/auto-checkout-at-suvarnabhumi-for-foreigners-from-friday

 

[Upnotover]

15 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

 

I should have been more specific, i.e. travelling with kids and the Mrs, but thanks anyways. The same applies at my destination when entering, as I recall our last trip in 2022.

 

We all had to go to the counter with the kids, although if it were just me and the Mrs with our E-Passports, straight through after using the machine. 

 

Leaving the country, we had to scan our Passports and get our photo taken, but still had to stop at the counter to get the exit stamp in our Passports.

 

Foreigners with ordinary passports, and children and the disabled, although holding e-passports, would still be required to go through the ordinary channels manned by officials.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2703086/auto-checkout-at-suvarnabhumi-for-foreigners-from-friday

 

Aha, must be a kids thing. Something I'm thankfully long past.  Anyway, now you can use the auto gate yourself and meet the family after😅

[zmisha]

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Foreigners with ordinary passports, and children and the disabled, although holding e-passports, would still be required to go through the ordinary channels manned by officials.

What is interesting is that nowhere in the Airport is it written that holders of ME visas and reentry permits should not use e-gates. If Thais really wanted this, they would write about it. Or at least the e-gates would show a red light to anyone with visa registered in the system. They do neither. This suggests that even if there is a forbiddance on the use of e-gates for ME visa holders or Reentry Permit holders, it is RECOMMENDATIONARY and not mandatory.