Student Visa Then 30 Days Tourist Visa, What Next?

[sevenfortyfive]

Hi All,

I'm struggling to get information on this topic, so hopefully one of your guys can give me some information.

I have an Italian passport, I was studing thai and got a 6 months student visa, after that I did a visa run to Singapore and got a 30 days tourist Visa. I been travelling a lot to Thailand from 2007 and have 10 entry stamps on my passport.

I can't afford to pay for a student visa right now, is there anyways to get a 30 days tourist extension from immigration in Bangkok? or any other way to get a tourist visa?

Thanks for the help.

[lopburi3]

You seem to have only a 30 day visa exempt stamp and all you can get on top of that is 7 days at a cost of 1,900 baht. A border crossing would get you only 15 days by land. You could probably obtain a two entry tourist visa from Vientiane but risk getting a red stamp that any more may not be provided.

[thaiphoon]

You can obtain a 30 day extension from Thai immigration if you currently have tourist visa, but suspect you are on visa exempt entry.

You can only obtain a tourist visa from embassy/consulate abroad.

You could apply for double entry tourist visa at Thai embassy in Vientiane. With extensions and a border run in the middle that would give you nearly 6 months stay. Red warning stamp is a possibility.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Red-Warning-...ne-t300805.html

[sevenfortyfive]

Hi all,

Thanks for the replies. I have just checked my passport and the visa that I am on is the usual stamp with visa class being "W.30", which is the same as my other 30 day tourist stamps.

How can I tell if I am on a "visa exempt entry" or regular tourist visa? If it is a regular tourist visa does that mean I can get a 30 day extension at immigration in Bangkok?

Thanks again.

[PoorSucker]

Hi all,

Thanks for the replies. I have just checked my passport and the visa that I am on is the usual stamp with visa class being "W.30", which is the same as my other 30 day tourist stamps.

How can I tell if I am on a "visa exempt entry" or regular tourist visa? If it is a regular tourist visa does that mean I can get a 30 day extension at immigration in Bangkok?

Thanks again.

You are on a visa exempt stamp.

Get a tourist visa at any consulate abroad.

How different stamps and visas look like, go here:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Current-stam...-album1006.html

[lopburi3]

If you only got a 30 day stay stamp at the airport on an Italian passport it would not seem to be a visa.

A visa you obtain from a Consulate outside Thailand and is a stamp or decal placed in your passport. Normally you apply one day and pick up the next. When you enter Thailand you put that information on your arrival card and Immigration puts a permitted to stay until stamp for 60 days in your passport. That entry can then be extended 30 days for 1,900 baht if you do before the permitted to stay until date.

[thaiphoon]

A visa is obtained from Thai embassy/consulate, and you would have received a 60 day permission to stay on entry which can be extended for 30 days. Looks like you do not have and are on 30 day permission to stay obtained at Thai immigration by arrival by air (which is not a visa).

[sevenfortyfive]

A visa is obtained from Thai embassy/consulate, and you would have received a 60 day permission to stay on entry which can be extended for 30 days. Looks like you do not have and are on 30 day permission to stay obtained at Thai immigration by arrival by air (which is not a visa).

Thanks for the replies, I was wondering if I do a Visa run to Cambodia and get the infamous red stamp, will they still allow me to have 15 days in Thailand? Will I be able to get any other visas (business or eduction) after that?

Thanks

[thaiphoon]

The red stamp is being given on some visa applications (by the embassy in Vientiane and consulate in Penang) and not at border crossings. You will only get single entry (60 day) tourist visa at Phnom Penh which as said can be extended for 30 days at Thai immigration. Apart from one Filipina, nobody else has reported being declined a visa (at Vientiane), but some are getting the red stamp at the same time as visa issue. As to the future … no one yet knows of the implications of the red stamp until their visas come up for renewal which is probably in 3-4 months time.

Alternatively, if you want to stay here longer term, fly to Perth and obtain 12 month multi-entry Non-O visa on basis of visiting friends. You will have to do border runs every 90 days. Do a border hop just before your visa expires and obtain new 90 day permission to stay stretching your visa to 15 months. Recent reports indicate signed copy of Thai gf ID card/passport is now required by consulate.