Help! Visa Confusion

[sparkkle]

Hi

I have read a lot of the visa queries on this forum and i have also spoken to the Thai consulate in Birmingham and i am still unsure which visa i need to get...!!!

Me and my sister are British citizens. We are flying into Bangkok on Wednesday 2 July. We have a return flight booked from Bangkok to Uk on 9 September.

We want to spend a couple of weeks in Northern Thailand then cross over to Laos/Vietnam/Cambodia and then return to Thailand for the last 2 weeks before getting my flight back to London.

I thought we could just enter Thailand on the 30 day permission to stay stamp, stay for a couple of weeks then leave to go to Laos etc and then come back in using another permission to stay stamp.

Tha woman at the thai consulate told me to be able to do the above, i need to buy a single entry visa. My sister called back to double check and was told that we would actually need to be a double entry visa????

I am so confused and also, time is running to get a visa sorted out - if we need one that is........

Please could someone help us out!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for your help

[Maestro]

Because you do not have a confirmed onward flight out of Thailand within 30 days from your arrival the airline will probably not let you check in at the UK airport without a visa. Therefore, based on your travel schedule, you should get a single-entry tourist visa for your first entry into Thailand and you will be given permission to stay for 60 days.

For your second entry, after your excursion to Laos/Cambodia/Vietnam, you can arrive without a visa and receive permission to stay for 30 days, which more than covers your intended stay in Thailand until your return flight to the UK.

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Maestro

[sparkkle]

Hi Maestro

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!!!

Can you just clarify something for me?

So, if we booked a flight from Thailand to Laos before we go, could we enter thailand on a permission to stay stamp, fly out and travel for elsewhere for a few weeks and then re-enter Thailand a second time on a permission to stay stamp?

Sorry to be a pain!!

Thanks

[Maestro]

In this case the airline should let you board without a visa.

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Maestro

[funfun]

Hi

I have read a lot of the visa queries on this forum and i have also spoken to the Thai consulate in Birmingham and i am still unsure which visa i need to get...!!!

Me and my sister are British citizens. We are flying into Bangkok on Wednesday 2 July. We have a return flight booked from Bangkok to Uk on 9 September.

We want to spend a couple of weeks in Northern Thailand then cross over to Laos/Vietnam/Cambodia and then return to Thailand for the last 2 weeks before getting my flight back to London.

I thought we could just enter Thailand on the 30 day permission to stay stamp, stay for a couple of weeks then leave to go to Laos etc and then come back in using another permission to stay stamp.

Tha woman at the thai consulate told me to be able to do the above, i need to buy a single entry visa. My sister called back to double check and was told that we would actually need to be a double entry visa????

I am so confused and also, time is running to get a visa sorted out - if we need one that is........

Please could someone help us out!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for your help

to cover yourselfe, can you get a multi entry from consulte, it can be isseued there and then, cost is approx 100 pounds for a years one, that would take care of all your probs, ie you come, bangkok 1st entry, you go up north thailand, then say go laos then maybe you come back in thailand before your travel to cambodia, that would be 2nd entry, then you go cambodia then return is three entrys!!

hull are ment to be the best, but birmingham may issue same day, they also post service and i think from you posting it to hull its returned in about 4 working days.

http://www.thaiconsul-uk.com/visas1.asp

http://map.longdo.com/?lat=16.5459375&...0&locale=en

that would save you booking any unnessasry flights, give you no probs getting in or around, and maybe if you come back later in the year ya covered again!

good luck and have a good holiday

chris