Advice Needed

[trigger38]

hello im a 38 year old englishmen .who is goin to thailand monday lack of time has made it so i dont have a visa this time..i have been back in the uk since jan18thfrom thailand, on my 1st trip to thailand i was granted a 30 day tourist visa which i had again after a 2 week trip to cambodia and laos i didnt use all the 2nd 30 days as i come back to england before the expiry

my main question is 1.what sort of visa will i be granted this visit and how can i extend it to a O visa etc as i want to stay in asia for 6 months this time .just travelling around

what the best advice u can offer?

money is real np i can and will pay for the visa

[lopburi3]

You will receive a 30 day visa exempt entry if they allow you on board the aircraft. You will not obtain a non immigrant O visa anywhere in the area unless you have Thai family or other reasons (money is not one of them). Tourist visas, perhaps from Vientiane, will probably be your best bet.

[trigger38]

You will receive a 30 day visa exempt entry if they allow you on board the aircraft. You will not obtain a non immigrant O visa anywhere in the area unless you have Thai family or other reasons (money is not one of them). Tourist visas, perhaps from Vientiane, will probably be your best bet.

thank u for your prompt reply ..but my view is that i have only used up around 50 days of my tourist visas during this 6 month period .i was alwas under the impression u could have up to 90 days in a 6 month period on a tourist visa

[beechguy]

I think you are confusing "visa exempt enrtry" with an actual tourist visa.

[Mahout Angrit]

30 days is what you get with a visa free entry stamp, a tourist visa on a British passport will give you an initial 60days on entry but has to be obtained from a consulate outside Thailand.

If you have 50 days of your 90 left counting up your total visa free entry time (the day you enter and the day you leave count as a day) then you will be given another 30 day visa free entry on arrival, however check with the airline if they will allow you to board if you don't have a ticket out of Thailand within the 30 days.

As for the remaining time of the 6 months you want to spend in Thailand you will have to get a visa from a consulate in the region until 6 months has elapsed and you can get 30 day visa free entries again.

[gunnyd]

money is real np i can and will pay for the visa

Go here:

http://www.siam-legal.com/UK-Citizens/thai...ear-visa-uk.php

They got the job done for me. Some on this board don't seem to approve of them, yet they bemoan the current Thai immigration law . Check them out for yourself and then decide, and trust me you wont be disappointed .

Edited February 10, 2008 by gunnyd

[Lite Beer]

money is real np i can and will pay for the visa

Go here:

http://www.siam-legal.com/UK-Citizens/thai...ear-visa-uk.php

They got the job done for me. Some on this board don't seem to approve of them, yet they bemoan the current Thai immigration law . Check them out for yourself and then decide, and trust me you wont be disappointed .

1 Why would any one pay 300 pounds for a Visa you can easily get yourself for 100 pounds?

2 He is coming on Monday so does not have the time.

3 If you are talking about applying while you are in Thailand, this is illegal and the Visa would not be valid and you would probably end up in jail.

You do not make it clear as to what you are suggesting. No offence intended.

[gunnyd]

1 Why would any one pay 300 pounds for a Visa you can easily get yourself for 100 pounds?

2 He is coming on Monday so does not have the time.

3 If you are talking about applying while you are in Thailand, this is illegal and the Visa would not be valid and you would probably end up in jail.

You do not make it clear as to what you are suggesting. No offence intended.

1. Why? To save travel to Consulate and the time dealing with the paperwork and waiting at the Consulate.

2. That is why I suggested he check it out for himself. Things being easy is very subjective. He did say that money was no prob.

3. I applied and got my visa before I will leave the US, and the Thai Consulate is 430 miles from where I live.

I have been to Thailand 11 times in the last 2 years and am very aware of the current flux that the immigration laws are in. I wouldn't do anything illegal or suggest anyone else do so either.

No offence taken. I am not a fan of Trolls or Flamers .

As with anything do your homework before you spend you hard earned cash for anything. You should take all advice you get here with a grain of salt and then check it out for yourself.

[Lite Beer]

1. Why? To save travel to Consulate and the time dealing with the paperwork and waiting at the Consulate.

Not having a dig at you but most people apply by post and get their passport back within a week. Easy.

Anyway , whatever works for you.

[jstumbo]

They got the job done for me. Some on this board don't seem to approve of them, yet they bemoan the current Thai immigration law . Check them out for yourself and then decide, and trust me you wont be disappointed .

What was your basis for receiving the Non Immigrant visa? Do you have Thai family? Are you doing business in Thailand? Over 50?

The problem I have with some people that use legal firms in Thailand to get the Non O visa is that they get a letter from a law firm that invites them to do business with a company in Thailand. They then use that as the basis for their Non-B visa. Even though they are not in business, and are not planning on doing any business in Thailand. They just use it to get the Non-b so that they can live in Thailand. People complain about long stayers on Tourist visas, but at least they are not resorting to what would be considered visa fraud in the US and probably wind you up in Jail.

[gunnyd]

They got the job done for me. Some on this board don't seem to approve of them, yet they bemoan the current Thai immigration law . Check them out for yourself and then decide, and trust me you wont be disappointed .

What was your basis for receiving the Non Immigrant visa? Do you have Thai family? Are you doing business in Thailand? Over 50?

The problem I have with some people that use legal firms in Thailand to get the Non O visa is that they get a letter from a law firm that invites them to do business with a company in Thailand. They then use that as the basis for their Non-B visa. Even though they are not in business, and are not planning on doing any business in Thailand. They just use it to get the Non-b so that they can live in Thailand. People complain about long stayers on Tourist visas, but at least they are not resorting to what would be considered visa fraud in the US and probably wind you up in Jail.

Strange that I found out about Siam Legal's service right here on ThaiVisa.com, and senior members of the site seem to hate what they do.... They are a sponsor here, not that it matters, and I am sure they would not be sending people into Thailand to be jailed. I guarantee they would be out of business in a heartbeat if that happened just once.

You seem to hate what these guys do. What is your problem with them? On another thread I recommended them to someone and you went on about the same B.S.

And as for what I am doing in Thailand, It's none of your dam_n business...

I saw the same attacks on Walden for helping people learn Thai and stay legally in Thailand at the same time. It's easy to flame. Do your research before attacking a sponsor of this site.

[Lite Beer]

Strange that I found out about Siam Legal's service right here on ThaiVisa.com, and senior members of the site seem to hate what they do.... They are a sponsor here, not that it matters, and I am sure they would not be sending people into Thailand to be jailed. I guarantee they would be out of business in a heartbeat if that happened just once.

I do not recall anyone saying they hated what they do.

I had a couple of things I did not understand that you kindly cleared up for me.

As for companies running illegal operations. There is a well known Visa Company in Bangkok quite openly offering illegal visa services to Penang. Maybe one of the reasons that Penang has now tightened right up in issuing visas. This company is still in business.

[Lite Beer]

Trigger . Have you contacted the airline yet?

There really is a chance that they will not let you board without a ticket out of Thailand within 30 days of arrival.

If they will not , you could always book a cheap flight with Air Asia to Malaysia or somewhere . You can then either throw it away or use it to visit a consulate and get a visa.

[gunnyd]

I do not recall anyone saying they hated what they do.

I had a couple of things I did not understand that you kindly cleared up for me.

As for companies running illegal operations. There is a well known Visa Company in Bangkok quite openly offering illegal visa services to Penang. Maybe one of the reasons that Penang has now tightened right up in issuing visas. This company is still in business.

I got the distinct impression from some members that they do "hate" companies that help Westerners obtain Multi Non-B visas. Not in so many words, but someone suggesting that using a TV sponsor's visa service will end up in jail, gives me the impression that they have a problem with them. I'm just reading between the lines. I am sure there are plenty of illegal operations out there willing to take a persons money and give false promises. Just because "bad apples" exist doesnt mean that all companies that offer visa services are breaking the law. I'll leave it at that. Buddha Time (for those familiar with Apocalypse Now you know what I mean) I'm not much for flame wars.

Edited February 10, 2008 by gunnyd

[uzbekistan]

Hi to All!

i'm coming to thailand on a single entry tourist visa.

thai ambassy here in belgium diden't want to give me a dubbel entry tourist visa.

iff i buy my ticket to thailand and instaid off a return ticket a buy a ticket to another country is that possible to?

Uzbek

[gunnyd]

Hi to All!

i'm coming to thailand on a single entry tourist visa.

thai ambassy here in belgium diden't want to give me a dubbel entry tourist visa.

iff i buy my ticket to thailand and instaid off a return ticket a buy a ticket to another country is that possible to?

Uzbek

Single Entry Tourist Visa gets you 60 days extendable to 90 for 1900 baht. Then you can do 3 30 day entry stamps at any border crossing. As for you plane ticket I would recommend getting a ticket that can be changed without a service charge. When you do a "visa run" you may be asked for proof that you have passage out of Thailand before the stamp expires (ie 30 days later) Although at the Poipet border crossing with Camboadia I have never been asked for it. But that was Nov 2007 and the visa situation in Thailand is very fluid.

Do a search of the site, if you do not get a reply from one of the visa run vets in this thread. The Mods and Admins can give you a better more current answer on the subject.

[pleasure4me2]

Hi to all,

I am from the Philippines and mariied with Thai female citizen since 1999, got 1 child holding a philippine passport and her visa is non immgrant type 'O'. Mine is a type B working visa. Just want to ask how to change the citizenship, how is it? the financial, procedure and everything. thanks

[jstumbo]

I got the distinct impression from some members that they do "hate" companies that help Westerners obtain Multi Non-B visas. Not in so many words, but someone suggesting that using a TV sponsor's visa service will end up in jail, gives me the impression that they have a problem with them. I'm just reading between the lines. I am sure there are plenty of illegal operations out there willing to take a persons money and give false promises. Just because "bad apples" exist doesnt mean that all companies that offer visa services are breaking the law. I'll leave it at that. Buddha Time (for those familiar with Apocalypse Now you know what I mean) I'm not much for flame wars.

I do not hate anyone. I just find it strange that some people will complain that people should not be using a tourist visa and visa exempt entries to stay in Thailand. They tell the long stayers that they need to get a real visa. Then then go on to tell how they got a B visa, which is for either working or doing business in Thailand under the pretense that they want to "investigate" doing business in Thailand. When they have no desire to do business in Thailand and that they are only getting a letter from a legal firm in Thailand that invites them to investigate it. Like I said, if this happened in the US, it would be considered visa fraud and the people may go to jail if they did this in the US. If a company in the US is sending out invitation letters to people to get business visas to the US, when they know that they are really just selling the letters to the people so that they can get a business visa to the US (because they would not qualify for say a tourist visa) that would be considered visa fraud.

I don't know that the sponsors on this forum do that. I did see a post from Sunbelt that stated that they really do not do this anymore because of that very reason. That they look very closely at any customer that wants this type of service because they want to make sure that they are legit and want to do business, not just get a b visa to live in Thailand.

I am currently here on a B visa. I do business in Thailand and our company imports around 100K m2 of flooring a year from factories in Thailand. If people abuse the B visa, they will change the procedures and make it more difficult for the legit people that are conducting business. It is already crazy the amount of information they want from the company that you do business with.

Edited February 10, 2008 by jstumbo

[jstumbo]

Hi to All!

i'm coming to thailand on a single entry tourist visa.

thai ambassy here in belgium diden't want to give me a dubbel entry tourist visa.

iff i buy my ticket to thailand and instaid off a return ticket a buy a ticket to another country is that possible to?

Uzbek

yes

[lopburi3]

You did not provide your passport information - if it is Uzbekistan a tourist visa will not provide more than a 30 day entry and you will not have visa exempt 30 day entry privileges.

If you have Uzbekistan passport you will have to also have travel documents for that next location (visa if required).

[gunnyd]

That is true I missed that, I assumed he was Belgium since he went to the Thai embassy in Belgium.

and @jstumbo I see where your coming from. I just got irritated by your post when I first saw it. There will always be criminals at work if there is money to be made. I guess I just have too much time on my hands.