Tourist Visa

[BrittanyVargas]

Hello...I have a question about the tourist visa. If I get a 60 day visa, am I allowed to leave and re-enter the country? My consulate doesn't issue multiple-entry tourist visas, just seperate entries. I plan on staying in Thailand for around a month, travel elsewhere for a month, and return to Thailand for another month. Not sure if I can just use a 60 day tourist visa and extend if need be.

[Maestro]

When you arrive in Thailand with a single-entry tourist visa you receive permission to stay for 60 days. If you plan to leave Thailand and return again before these 60 days are over you must get a single-entry re-entry permit (fee 1,000 Baht) from an immigration office in Thailand before you leave and then after your return go again to an immigration office and get a 30-day extension of stay (fee 1,900 Baht)

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Maestro

[ubonjoe]

Hello...I have a question about the tourist visa. If I get a 60 day visa, am I allowed to leave and re-enter the country? My consulate doesn't issue multiple-entry tourist visas, just seperate entries. I plan on staying in Thailand for around a month, travel elsewhere for a month, and return to Thailand for another month. Not sure if I can just use a 60 day tourist visa and extend if need be.

Tourist visas are not issued as multiple entry visas They are issued as a number of entries allowed. You need a 2 entry visa for your planned trip. The price is the local currency equivelant of 1000 baht per entry.

As Maestro said you can get a re-entry permit. But you should try and get a 2 entry tourist visa.

[Maestro]

Some Thai consulates are a bit weird but I should think that if with your visa application you also submit a covering letter with which you give details of you travel itinerary and explain that for this itinerary you need a tourist visa valid for two journeys to Thailand you may be able to get it. Give this explanation in writing, addressed to "His Excellency the Consul", not just verbally, because anything that the consulate gets in writing has to go on file and in this situation it is more difficult for them to deny the application.

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Maestro