Visa For Poles

[LukiLab]

Hey!!!

I`m planing arrive to Thailand on 2 July and I have a questions.

Poles have tourist visa for 60 days (everytime when i arrive at the airport i get 59 days) When I arrive to Thailand on 2.07 my visa will finish on 29or30.08.  What i should to do If i would like to stay 2 or 3 weeks more and comeback on September?  Meanwhile I go to Indonesia for volcanoes trekk. Which type of visa should I to do in my country?

-Normal tourist visa?

-tourist visa with re-entry and after being, for example, in Pattaya extend my visa?

-or normal tourist visa and when i will in Jakarta at the Thai embassy get another one?

please help me

Second thing! 

Last year on December i came from Cambodia and i took Aranyaprathet border.  Mr customs official told me that in next year will not operate Thai visa for Poles because many tourists forgot re-entry visias. It is true? Somebody know something about that situation? Hmmm? very interesting for me

[ubonjoe]

You get 60 days on entry but the day you arrive is counted so that makes it seem like 59 days.

With your schedule I suggest you get a 2 entry tourist visa. You can extend the first entry for 30 days at immigration (1900 baht) to give you more time.

Then wjen you return from Indonesia use the 2nd entry.

I don't quite understand your last statement.

Since you are from Poland if you don't have a visa from a conuslate you have to get a visa on arrival. That is not available at the Aranyaprathet border crossing. Perhaps he was talking about that.

There is no such thing as a re-entry visa. A re-entry permit can be obtained from immigration if for instance you wanted to leave for a few days and did not want to loose your first entry of a tourist visa. It does not extend your entry it just keeps it valid.

[lopburi3]

I am not sure how you get 60 days on arrival unless there has been a recent change in your country status. Poland was a list B country and should only receive a 30 day entry on tourist visa arrival (which can be extended another 30 days). But they are allowed 15 day visa on arrival (which would be what Aranyaprathet border would probably have been talking about) as they do not provide Visa on Arrival.

[LukiLab]

You get 60 days on entry but the day you arrive is counted so that makes it seem like 59 days.

With your schedule I suggest you get a 2 entry tourist visa. You can extend the first entry for 30 days at immigration (1900 baht) to give you more time.

Then wjen you return from Indonesia use the 2nd entry.

I don't quite understand your last statement.

Since you are from Poland if you don't have a visa from a conuslate you have to get a visa on arrival. That is not available at the Aranyaprathet border crossing. Perhaps he was talking about that.

There is no such thing as a re-entry visa. A re-entry permit can be obtained from immigration if for instance you wanted to leave for a few days and did not want to loose your first entry of a tourist visa. It does not extend your entry it just keeps it valid.

I`ve got a Thai Visa and i did also re-entry in Pattaya office, last time on December. I started my trip from Thailand-Cambodia-Thailand. And Mr very nice customs official toldme about this and many tourist he had to return back to Cambodia to get re-entry somwhere.... they had only one way visa.

Thank you so much for information but on Polish Thai embassy webside is something strange. "Tourists can extend tourist visa ONLY  when is natural cataclysm or if tourist need medical treatment in hospital"  http://www.thai-embassy.pl/?visa-consular-affairs,1 Hmmmm then can i or not extend visa?  

[ubonjoe]

That is for a visa on arrival. You can get a 30 day extension since you have a visa from the embassy.

[LukiLab]

That is for a visa on arrival. You can get a 30 day extension since you have a visa from the embassy.

aaaa OK I understan now. ThankYou

[LukiLab]

You get 60 days on entry but the day you arrive is counted so that makes it seem like 59 days.

With your schedule I suggest you get a 2 entry tourist visa. You can extend the first entry for 30 days at immigration (1900 baht) to give you more time.

Then wjen you return from Indonesia use the 2nd entry.

Another question

When I should to extend my visa? When I come back from Indonesia (on 2nd entry) or in first week when i arrive to Thailannd?

 

[lopburi3]

Believe you are talking about Visa on Arrival - not tourist visa:

Polish passport holders can apply for a visa after arrival in Thailand. Length of stay may not exceed 15 days. One entry cost 1.000 Baht. Possibility to extend the visa for 30 days only in case there is a hospital or a natural disaster.

For tourist visa it seems you get 60 days. But suspect that is the old 30 days plus 30 day extension combined - so there would not be a further extension as for list A countries.

[ubonjoe]

You can extend either entry if you need more thatn 60 days in the country. You should extend it about 2 weeks before your permit to stay ends. You will still get the 30 days added to your permit to stay no matter how early you extend it,

[LukiLab]

Believe you are talking about Visa on Arrival - not tourist visa:

Polish passport holders can apply for a visa after arrival in Thailand. Length of stay may not exceed 15 days. One entry cost 1.000 Baht. Possibility to extend the visa for 30 days only in case there is a hospital or a natural disaster.

For tourist visa it seems you get 60 days. But suspect that is the old 30 days plus 30 day extension combined - so there would not be a further extension as for list A countries.

List A and B ? Hmmm on which List my country is? and which list is better? :D wherei can check that list?

[ubonjoe]

Believe you are talking about Visa on Arrival - not tourist visa:

Polish passport holders can apply for a visa after arrival in Thailand. Length of stay may not exceed 15 days. One entry cost 1.000 Baht. Possibility to extend the visa for 30 days only in case there is a hospital or a natural disaster.

For tourist visa it seems you get 60 days. But suspect that is the old 30 days plus 30 day extension combined - so there would not be a further extension as for list A countries.

They have changed the rules some time or the other because India even gets 60 days now and can get an extension.

Since he has been getting 60 days in his previous trips he should get 60 this time and can get the extension.

[lopburi3]

The list I have never seen on-line - but list A countries are those on the 30 day visa exempt entry list. List B are those allowed the Visa on Arrival service. Immigration keeps the list so that know what period of stay to stamp you in for.

[LukiLab]

The list I have never seen on-line - but list A countries are those on the 30 day visa exempt entry list. List B are those allowed the Visa on Arrival service. Immigration keeps the list so that know what period of stay to stamp you in for.

mmhmm I see... By the way On 29-31 May will be in Warsaw THAILAND EXPO 2009 http://www.tajlandiaexpo.pl/en/index.php . So happy that Thailand promote your self in Poland  but i`m sad also no straight connection with Bangkok by THAIAIR. Always via Frankfurt and always to see Lufthansa boring people blee. THAIAIR should teach people in Luthansa  how to take care customers.  

[ubonjoe]

The list I have never seen on-line - but list A countries are those on the 30 day visa exempt entry list. List B are those allowed the Visa on Arrival service. Immigration keeps the list so that know what period of stay to stamp you in for.

Here is a list from the MFA website. That is a summary of all types of entries and countries.

http://www.mfa.go.th/internet/document/ChartVisa.pdf

I think they may have dropped the rule that said everybody on the VOA list only get 30 days. Or perhaps have come out with 2 lists for VOA countries those that get 30 and those that get 60.

[lopburi3]

This would be an Immigration list that someone was able to obtain from an immigration officer and posted as a jpg some time ago so expect there is a newer version - mine does reflect the 500 baht a day overstay charge, but only lists 36 visa exempt countries; so old.

[ubonjoe]

Just came across this on immigration website under extension for tourist.

Foreigners applying for the first time for an extension of stay are given a 30 day extension from the date of expiry of the original admission, except for citizens of Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Iran, Bangladesh, Nepal, Nigeria, Togo, and Uganda, whose application for extension of stay will not be approved and the applicants are ordered to leave the kingdom within seven days.

I know that India has been dropped from the list.

[chrissamui]

Hey!!!

I`m planing arrive to Thailand on 2 July and I have a questions.

Poles have tourist visa for 60 days (everytime when i arrive at the airport i get 59 days) When I arrive to Thailand on 2.07 my visa will finish on 29or30.08. What i should to do If i would like to stay 2 or 3 weeks more and comeback on September? Meanwhile I go to Indonesia for volcanoes trekk. Which type of visa should I to do in my country?

-Normal tourist visa?

-tourist visa with re-entry and after being, for example, in Pattaya extend my visa?

-or normal tourist visa and when i will in Jakarta at the Thai embassy get another one?

please help me

Second thing!

Last year on December i came from Cambodia and i took Aranyaprathet border. Mr customs official told me that in next year will not operate Thai visa for Poles because many tourists forgot re-entry visias. It is true? Somebody know something about that situation? Hmmm? very interesting for me

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