What Is Considered A Back-To-Back Tourist Visa

[Itookthebluepill]

I have a few tourist visa questions due to the issues being seen with back-to-back tourist visas being denied.

What time out of the country would make a 60-day tourist visa not back-to-back?

Does it matter if you returned for 12 days to your home country (does that make it not back-to-back)?

If you have a 30-day (exempt) visa at entry before getting a 60-day visa soes that make it not back-to-back?

Thanks for all your help!

[thailandbluegrass]

I'm no expert but I do know this much. If you have ANY type of visa in between tourist visas that would make them NOT back to back. For instance one time I was on my tourist visa but upgraded to a Non "B' due to a job. After that job was over I went out of the country to get another Tourist visa so that was concidered not back to back.

I know they tried to say that you need to leave the country for 90 days in order to get a new tourist visa before but that was a couple of years back when they were trying to "rid Thailand of it's reprobates" so to speak. It is so hard to follow the laws these days here as they don't change day to day but actually change from minute to minute.

Anyways there is a half of an answer to your question.

[phuketrichard]

Be lucky ur not travelling in and out of India. New regulations state that whenever one is on a tourist visa ( u can get a ten year multi entry one) you need stay out of the country 2 months before u can re enter.

Can u imagine if Thailand started this??

[Itookthebluepill]

Thanks and let me clarify.

I had a 60-day double entry tourist visa with one, not two, extensions, I then left the country for my home country and was there for 12 days before returning to Thailand. I returned to Thailand without a 60-day tourist visa and was issued a 30-day exempt tourist entry permit. After that 30 days I left to Laos and received a new double entry 60-day tourist visa and now have recveived my first 30-day extension.

I just need to know if the 12 days out of the country plus the 30-day exempt entry permit was enough to stop it from being considered back-to-back.

What do you think?

[lopburi3]

Not likely as it is not defined as back to back as much as too many.

[tropo]

Thanks and let me clarify.

I had a 60-day double entry tourist visa with one, not two, extensions, I then left the country for my home country and was there for 12 days before returning to Thailand. I returned to Thailand without a 60-day tourist visa and was issued a 30-day exempt tourist entry permit. After that 30 days I left to Laos and received a new double entry 60-day tourist visa and now have recveived my first 30-day extension.

I just need to know if the 12 days out of the country plus the 30-day exempt entry permit was enough to stop it from being considered back-to-back.

What do you think?

Back-to-back is an informal term used amongst people on this forum. In neighboring counsulates (Vientiane, Penang) I don't think they care if there's a gap or not between subsequent tourist visas as they seem to just count entries or stickers in an effort to make a quick on the spot assessment. If a person has an old passport with many tourist visa stickers they may be knocked back even with 6 month periods in between some of them. In Vientiane where they are faced with hundreds of applicants everyday they don't have time (and probably the inclination) to determine intervals.