3 Concurrent Tourist Visas With Extensions. Possible?

[blemished75]

Hello all,

I would be greatly appreciative if you could offer me some advice on the following issue.

I want to make three tourist visa runs, concurrently, with a one month extension after each one. This will give me a total of 9 months. Is there any evidence as to whether this is possible. I am perfectly happy to change my destination each time.

I started in Singapore in October, and have just got my first one month extension. I now want to do this twice more to take me up to end of June/ start of July when I will go to the UK to apply for a year visa, Non imm 'O'.

Greatest thanks to anyone who can provide some constructive advice or experiences of having done this before.

Thanks very much.

[lopburi3]

Currently your best bet would be Vientiane and perhaps being able to obtain a two entry tourist visa in one trip.

[hansnl]

Currently your best bet would be Vientiane and perhaps being able to obtain a two entry tourist visa in one trip.

Dear Moderator

Your motto, in the Thai version should be "Per Aspera Ad Astra"

Per Ardua Ad Astra will probably not work over here.

Maybe some pecunia might do the trick?

[blemished75]

Thanks, I was thinking about Vientiene. Would you mind giving me some more info about the two entry tourist visa. Or maybe a link. Thanks. I've got a few tourist visas in my passport already, is that likely to make a difference.

Once again, I greatly appreciate any help you can give me. Best wishes.

[lopburi3]

Write double entry on the application and pay for two tourist visas. It may be accepted and provided. If not they will tell you only one.

[blemished75]

That would add up to four months, and then an extension for five months, and then a transit visa, visa on arrival?

Thanks.

Edited December 10, 2007 by blemished75

[blemished75]

That will add up to four months (2 x tourist visa) plus a one month extension ( is that right) so that is a total of five months, and then I can apply for a transit visa to hit six months. Does this seem like the best idea to you? Thanks.

Edited December 12, 2007 by blemished75

[lopburi3]

Each tourist visa entry can be extended by 30 days (although that may take proof of outbound travel) but you have to watch the visa validity and make second entry before it expires.

[blemished75]

That's great. Thanks very much. I'll give it a try.

[blemished75]

I just heard a rumour that the the Thai Embassy in Laos is no longer issuing tourist visas 'until further notice'. Has anyone else heard anything like this or is it just another rumour? Thanks.

[lopburi3]

We have had recent reports of normal tourist visa issues this week but have also heard some with African passports were being advised to come back next week on at least one day.

[astral]

Currently your best bet would be Vientiane and perhaps being able to obtain a two entry tourist visa in one trip.

Dear Moderator

Your motto, in the Thai version should be "Per Aspera Ad Astra"

Per Ardua Ad Astra will probably not work over here.

Maybe some pecunia might do the trick?

Please do not quote my signature in vain.

I haven't commented on this thread until now.

I am not sure why the poster wants concurrent visas, unless he/she has a medical condition with a split personality.

I believe it should be consecutive............

[ComicBum]

What's the problem?......

Each tourist-visa can be extended for one-month.....but where can you do that?....this extension should not be confused with a transit-visa(one -month) which is free on arrival.

Guess what?...the extension privilage on a tourist visa will cost you approx. 1900 baht....NOT free. In Chiang mai you can get that done at the immigration office near the airport. If you go to the border crossing immigration they will activate your next tourist visa, NOT give you an extension.

Anyways, if you are staying in one area,for example, you can just search out the local immigration office and get the deed done there without making extravagant travel plans.

The people who are still living on the one-month "free-loaders" visa will need to make spider monkey moves in order to stay in little-tittie land.

I recently got back from a Visa run with a mini bus of fellow travellers, two young guys fom Canukal-Land tried to get a third consective tourist visa in Mai-sai, what they got was a 2-day "get out of Thailand" stamp instead! .....ouch!....they were shocked and confused....what to do??? PLAN ahead.

Cheers / Chok-Dee

[astral]

The problem may be that there is no guarantee of a one month extension.

Some members have reported only receiving 7 days........

That makes a total of 6 months and 3 weeks on Triple Tourist Visa.

Your Canadian friends were obviously not using Tourist Visa's.

They were on the Visa Exemption stamps which are for 30 days only

and limited to 90 days in any 180 day period.

This is a totally different scenario.

[hotgeekus]

g/f is no on 7th in a row, all with 90 day extension....

[thaikahuna]

If you have a multiple entry Tourist Visa (2 X 60 days) you make a border run at/near 60 days and get a second 60 days. When that is close to expiration, do a border run and get a VOA for 30 days and repeat that process in another 30 days giving you at/near 6 months. Now you must either leave the country and renew the multiple entry tourist visa or go to immigration and apply for a non-immigrant O or B visa.

[preahko]

g/f is no on 7th in a row, all with 90 day extension....

There is absolutely no reason to believe, given the current Thai visa laws as they have been explained by officials, to think that one can't keep doing tourist visas and extensions indefinitely. When the whole change with the 30-day free stay thing happened a year and a half ago (the 90-day in a six month period limit), the head of Thai Immigration did several interviews, one in Farang Magazine, in which he came right out and said that people who want to stay in Thailand long-term and aren't eligible for another kind of visa can just keep getting tourist visas/extensions indefinitely. There is NO limit on the amount of time you can stay as long as you are purchasing tourist visas and purchasing extensions.

Now, that said, it's very important to understand something else: Thai border police very often are confused about and do not correctly understand the visa laws. Just as farangs often confuse the 30-day stay/90 day limit with using a tourist visa, so do they! They get confused by all sorts of things: I had an immigration officer at Suvanabhumi try to tell me that on the second entry of my double entry tourist visa, I only get 30, and not 60 days (before the extension)! The only way I could convince her was to persist (politely--and this was all done in Thai) in asking other immigration officers until I found one who knew the law. Luckily, that person was the initial officer's superior. But, the whole ordeal was, as we say, "a four Thai job"...it took asking that many people before I found one who knew the correct use of a double entry visa.

So, your girlfriend should have politely persisted, and there's a chance she wouldn't have gotten kicked out/denied another visa. On the other hand, it's possible that that day there were NO Thai immigration employees present who knew the law...!!

preahko

[monkeyofdoom]

Hello all,

I would be greatly appreciative if you could offer me some advice on the following issue.

I want to make three tourist visa runs, concurrently, with a one month extension after each one. This will give me a total of 9 months. Is there any evidence as to whether this is possible. I am perfectly happy to change my destination each time.

I started in Singapore in October, and have just got my first one month extension. I now want to do this twice more to take me up to end of June/ start of July when I will go to the UK to apply for a year visa, Non imm 'O'.

Greatest thanks to anyone who can provide some constructive advice or experiences of having done this before.

Thanks very much.

I did this last year with a triple entry tourist visa issued in Denmark. Three consecutive tourist visas, all with 30 day extensions, for 9 months total. The visa was valid for 6 months, so the last entry was done a week before the validity expired. You are allowed to stay on a visa that is expired, as long as you made the entry before the expiration. You are also allowed to extend a visa that is expired, for the usual extra 30 days.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Currently your best bet would be Vientiane and perhaps being able to obtain a two entry tourist visa in one trip.

Dear Moderator

Your motto, in the Thai version should be "Per Aspera Ad Astra"

Per Ardua Ad Astra will probably not work over here.

Maybe some pecunia might do the trick?

A classic latin scholar here.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

If you have a multiple entry Tourist Visa (2 X 60 days) you make a border run at/near 60 days and get a second 60 days. When that is close to expiration, do a border run and get a VOA for 30 days and repeat that process in another 30 days giving you at/near 6 months. Now you must either leave the country and renew the multiple entry tourist visa or go to immigration and apply for a non-immigrant O or B visa.

or even extend both 60 days tourist visa entries by a further 30 days each ( that does make 6 months and still leaves the option to get up to 3 30 day visa free entries on arrival.

[troy04]

Hi

Could I get a translation to update my latin knowledge?

Per Aspera Ad Astra

Per Ardua Ad Astra

pecunia

thanks!

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Dear Moderator

Your motto, in the Thai version should be "Per Aspera Ad Astra"

Per Ardua Ad Astra will probably not work over here.

Maybe some pecunia might do the trick?

[lannarebirth]

Hello all,

I would be greatly appreciative if you could offer me some advice on the following issue.

I want to make three tourist visa runs, concurrently, with a one month extension after each one. This will give me a total of 9 months. Is there any evidence as to whether this is possible. I am perfectly happy to change my destination each time.

I started in Singapore in October, and have just got my first one month extension. I now want to do this twice more to take me up to end of June/ start of July when I will go to the UK to apply for a year visa, Non imm 'O'.

Greatest thanks to anyone who can provide some constructive advice or experiences of having done this before.

Thanks very much.

You can get 3 x 60 day tourist visas in Xiamen. each extendable by 30 days.