Second Entry On A Double Entry Tourist Visa

[cjharnett]

Hello,

I have a double entry tourist visa, obtained from the Thai consulate in Vientiane. I want to get the second entry for another 60 days, so need to leave Thailand and re-enter. Was thinking of doing this at the Myanmar border near Mae Sot, but was told this is not a proper border station for doing this (that my tourist visa would be cancelled and I'd get 15 days instead). Does anyone know if I can get another 60 days at the border at Ranong, or if not, then at which border crossings I can?

I've got a UK passport.

Cheers,

Chris.

[Ayutthaya69]

Hi you have to go before the date on your visa . this visa must be utilized before you can go every where and the custom stamp you for another 60 days

[sanook2me]

Good question...and hopefully some nice kind mod or someone else can answer this one..

I need to do the same in a months time and a friend told me about a border to Burma that sounds great...nice and quiet and a little market town inside Burma..Would fancy that more than doing another Cambodian trip and turn around same day..

So to add to the OP..

Can the second entry on a tourist visa be used at any land border crossing and still get the 60 days?

[Lite Beer]

Can the second entry on a tourist visa be used at any land border crossing and still get the 60 days?

Yes, any border crossing.

The 60 days can also be extended for a further 30 days at Immigration in Thailand. 1,900 Baht fee.

[cjharnett]

Thanks for the replies.

Hi Lite Beer,

Are you sure that I will get another 60 days at any border crossing? The info I got was that the border crossing near Mae Sot, (Myawaddy I believe on the Myanmar side), was not an official border crossing, or some such terminology, and therefore the second 60 days isn't given there. The person who told me this lives in Mae Sot and seemed to know what he was talking about.

Any thoughts?

[ozzieovaseas]

Some border crossings like one near Hua Hin for example,(whos name i cant remember right now) do not process foriegners as they are basically a crossing for native workers transporting timber and other goods between countries. Luckily in my case i found this out before i left HuaHin but opted for a VERY long sight seeing trip south to the crossing at Ranong.

You are best to check by making a phone call direct to the immigration office although im sure you will find info on just about every crossing available if you were to put it to the TV search engine.

From your wording it seems like you might be wondering if the extension rules may differ between ALL of the foriener friendly crossings, in which case NO, as lite beer has said, they are all work under the same rules.

[Lite Beer]

List of official Northern Checkpoints from Immigration Website.

http://www.immigration.go.th/nov2004/en/base.php?page=north

[cjharnett]

Sounds like I can get another 60 days at the Mae Sot crossing after all. Thanks for all the help you guys.

[munns]

Good question...and hopefully some nice kind mod or someone else can answer this one..

I need to do the same in a months time and a friend told me about a border to Burma that sounds great...nice and quiet and a little market town inside Burma..Would fancy that more than doing another Cambodian trip and turn around same day..

So to add to the OP..

Can the second entry on a tourist visa be used at any land border crossing and still get the 60 days?

go to thai immagration and get a 30 day extension 1900 baht and then do your visa rum and get your 60 day second visaa Dave

[Lite Beer]

go to thai immagration and get a 30 day extension 1900 baht and then do your visa rum and get your 60 day second visaa Dave

But make sure that your Visa is still valid.

[phuketrichard]

any offical border u will get 60 days for your second tourist visa entry. In effect u can make a double entry visa last for 180 days!!

Juts make sure you check the dates the visa is valid for and make sure ur second entry ios BEFORE it expires.

[plaloma]

I am on a triple entry tourist visa and went everytime in Ranong by the Andanan pier and no problem at all. Have to go again end of feb. for the last entry.

[jb5music]

Good question...and hopefully some nice kind mod or someone else can answer this one..

I need to do the same in a months time and a friend told me about a border to Burma that sounds great...nice and quiet and a little market town inside Burma..Would fancy that more than doing another Cambodian trip and turn around same day..

So to add to the OP..

Can the second entry on a tourist visa be used at any land border crossing and still get the 60 days?

go to thai immagration and get a 30 day extension 1900 baht and then do your visa rum and get your 60 day second visaa Dave

I don't think so Munns -All entries have to be used within 60 days of the first entry.

You enter - you do 60 days - you pay 1900 at immigration for 30 days more- you go to border

for your second entry, Sorry Jack your visa expired 30 days ago.

You just paid 1900 baht for 30 days instead of going to the border and getting 60

days for free (that you paid 1000 baht for already).

So you lose 2900 baht total for thirty days LESS.

great suggestion.

[jb5music]

Good question...and hopefully some nice kind mod or someone else can answer this one..

I need to do the same in a months time and a friend told me about a border to Burma that sounds great...nice and quiet and a little market town inside Burma..Would fancy that more than doing another Cambodian trip and turn around same day..

So to add to the OP..

Can the second entry on a tourist visa be used at any land border crossing and still get the 60 days?

go to thai immagration and get a 30 day extension 1900 baht and then do your visa rum and get your 60 day second visaa Dave

I don't think so Munns -All entries have to be used within 60 days of the first entry.

You enter - you do 60 days - you pay 1900 at immigration for 30 days more- you go to border

for your second entry, Sorry Jack your visa expired 30 days ago.

You just paid 1900 baht for 30 days instead of going to the border and getting 60

days for free (that you paid 1000 baht for already).

So you lose 2900 baht total for thirty days LESS.

great suggestion.

AAAANnnnnd - They'll let you walk out like that and not say a word.

You turn around to comeback in and it's "Sorry Jack your visa is expired.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaand YOU STILL HAVE 30 DAYS LEFT TILL

YOU CAN COME BACK IN.

So that was a really great suggestion.

[SeanMoran]

I don't think so Munns -All entries have to be used within 60 days of the first entry.

You enter - you do 60 days - you pay 1900 at immigration for 30 days more- you go to border

for your second entry, Sorry Jack your visa expired 30 days ago.

You just paid 1900 baht for 30 days instead of going to the border and getting 60

days for free (that you paid 1000 baht for already).

So you lose 2900 baht total for thirty days LESS.

great suggestion.

I'm confused. It might be the difference between the double- and triple-entry tourist visa, and I can only speak of the triple-entry I obtained in Perth on November 19th last year. It's marked as being valid until the 19th of May this year, for three entries.

I'm on my second quota of 60 days right now, with the second ride to Cambodia planned for March 29th, to activate the final span of 60 days to somewhere around May 27th or 28th, I guesstimate.

However, if I'd extended the first two 60 day visas by an extra 30 days each, January 29th would have become March February 28th (excuse estimates on exact dates), of which 89 or 90 days from then would indeed have seen me exceed the May 19th validity expiry date by 11 days- due to the fact that I was granted the visa 11 days before entering Thailand - but if I was to arrive at a land border on that day., May 19th, would that not enable the activation of that final third span of 60 days, with the option of a third extension of 30 days to finish off somewhere around the middle of August?

I am under the impression that the 60 days should be activated before the validity of the visa expires, but I'm not sure if the double-entry visa is valid for six months like the triple-entry, or four months (pro-rata) or two months, as you mention.

[Lite Beer]

Every entry can be extended at Immigration for a further 30 days for a fee of 1,900 Baht.

However you may lose a few days as you have to make your final entry before the expiry date of the Visa.

That is why we always say that a Double Entry Tourist Visa gives a stay of almost 6 months.

[jb5music]

I don't think so Munns -All entries have to be used within 60 days of the first entry.

You enter - you do 60 days - you pay 1900 at immigration for 30 days more- you go to border

for your second entry, Sorry Jack your visa expired 30 days ago.

You just paid 1900 baht for 30 days instead of going to the border and getting 60

days for free (that you paid 1000 baht for already).

So you lose 2900 baht total for thirty days LESS.

great suggestion.

I'm confused. It might be the difference between the double- and triple-entry tourist visa, and I can only speak of the triple-entry I obtained in Perth on November 19th last year. It's marked as being valid until the 19th of May this year, for three entries.

I'm on my second quota of 60 days right now, with the second ride to Cambodia planned for March 29th, to activate the final span of 60 days to somewhere around May 27th or 28th, I guesstimate.

However, if I'd extended the first two 60 day visas by an extra 30 days each, January 29th would have become March February 28th (excuse estimates on exact dates), of which 89 or 90 days from then would indeed have seen me exceed the May 19th validity expiry date by 11 days- due to the fact that I was granted the visa 11 days before entering Thailand - but if I was to arrive at a land border on that day., May 19th, would that not enable the activation of that final third span of 60 days, with the option of a third extension of 30 days to finish off somewhere around the middle of August?

I am under the impression that the 60 days should be activated before the validity of the visa expires, but I'm not sure if the double-entry visa is valid for six months like the triple-entry, or four months (pro-rata) or two months, as you mention.

That's the point I've made on other posts on other threads of this same topic.

You cannot extend the first entry at immigration. It's about to expire.

You must go to the border and activate the second entry. It's written somewhere

in fine print on the visa that all entries must be used within sixty days of the first entry.

-----untrue. you can re-enter on your visa as long as it is BEFORE the "use before" date stamped on the visa. Added by Monty-------------

even the third entry must be consumed within sixty days of the first entry.

Which means (unexplained to you of course when they sold you the triple instead of the double)

..which means that the third entry is for if you are traveling and want to

see several countries and go in and out several times in that 60 day time frame.

I see now my math was incorrect though before on my other reply.

You would have spanned the 90 day requirement to be out

of Thailand 90 days within 180 days if you extended the first

entry at immigration.

You would still lose the second (and third if applicable) entry though by extending the first entry.

You extend the SECOND entry after the whole show is over.

[Lite Beer]

I don't think so Munns -All entries have to be used within 60 days of the first entry.

That is not correct.

If obtained at Vientienne . The final entry has to be made within 90 days from the day it was issued.

Copied from the Visa Application Form on the Vientienne Embassy Website.

3 The visas which are issued by the Embassy or Consulates entitle visa applicants to ENTER

Thailand and must be used within 3 months from date of issue.

[jas007]

I thought I knew what I was doing until I read this thread. Now, I'm not sure.

I have a double entry tourist visa, obtained at a US consulate. I entered Thailand on January 11th, and they stamped me in until March 11th. My intention was to extend the visa at immigration before March 11th so as to get another 30 days. Then, right before the expiration oft he 30 days, I was going to due a visa run by leaving Thailand and then returning. At that point, I'd be stamped in for another 60 days. At the end of that period, I'd extend again for 30 days and leave the country at the end of the 30 days.

Will that not work? And if not, how do I get 180 days out of my double entry tourist visa?

[lopburi3]

It will work as long as your last entry is before your visa expiration date. Locally that is ofter 3 months from issue but at other places can be 6 months from issue - it is the use before date on the actual visa.

[jas007]

It will work as long as your last entry is before your visa expiration date. Locally that is ofter 3 months from issue but at other places can be 6 months from issue - it is the use before date on the actual visa.

Thanks. I just got out my passport and it says "use by" June 13th. My second entry into Thailand will be before that date, so, with extension of the second entry, I can make it to July 2nd, when I leave Bangkok. Makes sense.

[THAIFRENCHY]

Sounds like I can get another 60 days at the Mae Sot crossing after all. Thanks for all the help you guys.

Mae Sot is an official border crossing. I made my second entry at Mae Sot 2 or 3 times in the last years, and once more 2 months ago. No probleme at all, very quick, no queue.

Claude

[tracer5050]

Thanks cleared up alot of things

[Gimbo]

Here is how it works:

With a double entry 60 day visa. Both entries have to be used within 90 days from they are issued. The "use by" date will be stamped on the visa sticker.

So if you enter Thailand the same day as your visa was issued, you can stay for 60 days. Before this 60 day period you go to immigration and apply for a 30 day extension.

After no more than 30 days, but BEFORE the 90 day "use by" date" of your original visa, you cross the border and come back. You will be given another 60 days. And then you go to immigration again and apply for another 30 day extension on your final 60 days.

I was actually given a 60 day extensions twice, courtesy of the immigration officer, becouse I was polite, made them all luagh and was married with a thai they said.

Anyway, this has worked fine for me.

[thaiphoon]

Just to clarify ... Double entry visas issued within the region have a 90 day use by date for both entries, the day of issue and the day of expiry counting. You have to leave the country before the "enter before" date on the visa. Reality is that for double entry visa issued within the region that around day 88. Double entry tourist visas issued outside the region normally have a 180 day use by date, giving you full days.