Please Some One Help Me

[shawnmeu]

hello everyone i am american and half thai i have been in thailand for 4 years now on a tourist visa but keep on going to renew my visa and report 90 days. but i have a thai passport and id card so what should i do so i dont have to report for 90 days or have to extend my visa for another year..... please can some one give me some info on this please thank you very much.

[Richard4849]

Go out and come back in on your Thai passport. Then you can stay forever if you want.

[InterestedObserver]

Go out and come back in on your Thai passport. Then you can stay forever if you want.

He should leave Thailand by air using this US passport (to cancel the current extension) and then re-enter Thailand using his Thai passport.

[jdinasia]

Go out and come back in on your Thai passport. Then you can stay forever if you want.

I think that will only be sure to work if entering by air.

[sbk]

Yes but be sure to leave on your American passport, get stamped out of the country as you will need to cancel your existing visa. Fly to KL (no visa needed) and enter on your Thai passport. Then fly back to Thailand and enter on your Thai passport.

[shawnmeu]

thank you everyone for helping me now what if i dont extend my visa for my american passport what will happen... i dont plan leaving thailand but just incase i want to go back to the states... so i have to leave on my american passport and cancel my visa how do i do that. then come back on my thai passport ok thank you. last thing so i can go to singapore leave thailand on my american passport and check into singapore on thai passport and come back into thailand on my thai passport.

[jdinasia]

thank you everyone for helping me now what if i dont extend my visa for my american passport what will happen... i dont plan leaving thailand but just incase i want to go back to the states... so i have to leave on my american passport and cancel my visa how do i do that. then come back on my thai passport ok thank you.

Your Thai visa (in your US passport) will not be an issue as long as every time you enter Thailand you do it on your Thai passport. You must leave the country on the passport you enter on. You can "switch" passports when traveling by air. After you have switched from the US passport and enter on the Thai passport -- you will have to leave on that one too, BUT you may enter the next country on whichever passport suits the situation best. (If the country you are going to does not require a visa for a Thai then use that passport, the same for a US passport. Flying back to the US you'd exit Thailand on the Thai passport and enter the USA on a US passport.

[InterestedObserver]

so i have to leave on my american passport and cancel my visa how do i do that. then come back on my thai passport ok thank you. last thing so i can go to singapore leave thailand on my american passport and check into singapore on thai passport and come back into thailand on my thai passport.

YES!

[shawnmeu]

my visa is due in august coming up but i am living here in thailand i have the thai passport and id card but if i let my visa expire can i still leave thailand on my us passport and enter singapore on my thai passport and come back to thailand on my thai passport

[jdinasia]

my visa is due in august coming up but i am living here in thailand i have the thai passport and id card but if i let my visa expire can i still leave thailand on my us passport and enter singapore on my thai passport and come back to thailand on my thai passport

You will be on overstay if you let it expire without leaving. If you leave (any time prior to your permission to stay expiring) tmw and enter back into Thailand on the Thai passport the visa no longer ever matters. Even though you are legally Thai, right now they have you counted as a US citizen and it would be a pain in the butt to try and get immigration to treat you as anything but a US citizen based upon how you entered Thailand. It requires no action on your part about the visa in the US passport. It just expires.

[sbk]

You must leave the country with your US passport on or before your visa expires.

Then, you can re-enter Thailand with your Thai passport.

[Mario2008]

With your Thai IDcard or passport you can get an extension of stay in your US-passport, good for 1 year. You can keep doing this till you leave Thailand and return on the Thai passport.

[Mrjlh]

With your Thai IDcard or passport you can get an extension of stay in your US-passport, good for 1 year. You can keep doing this till you leave Thailand and return on the Thai passport.

My neighbor just asked me the same question. Half American half Thai. Sounds like he has the best of two worlds. I'm jealous! When he re-enters on his Thai passport shouldn't he also show immigration his American Passport so they can make a note of it? Same going the other way but reversed? This was pointed out in another roost a longtime ago.

[Mario2008]

No need to show both passport. You do that only when you check-in at the airport, so the airline sees that no visa is required.

[Mrjlh]

No need to show both passport. You do that only when you check-in at the airport, so the airline sees that no visa is required.

Good info I'll pass that on...thanks :jap:

[jdinasia]

With your Thai IDcard or passport you can get an extension of stay in your US-passport, good for 1 year. You can keep doing this till you leave Thailand and return on the Thai passport.

Cool. Where has this been successful? BKK or just about anywhere? (I have a friend that would probably benefit from this in the coming months)

[InterestedObserver]

With your Thai IDcard or passport you can get an extension of stay in your US-passport, good for 1 year. You can keep doing this till you leave Thailand and return on the Thai passport.

Cool. Where has this been successful? BKK or just about anywhere? (I have a friend that would probably benefit from this in the coming months)

Thai Police Order No.777/2551, 2.23.

[TerryLH]

I know the general consensus here is that you can't swap passports when crossing a border by land.

Why wouldn't this work for the OP crossing into Laos.

He'd exit Thailand using his US passport.

He'd enter Laos using his Thai ID card to get a border pass. Since he's Thai, Laos will have no reason to question him about any other passport.

Cross back into Thailand using his Thai ID card again. He doesn't even have to show his Thai passport.

I understand why it's said it wouldn't work with 2 non Thai passports, but I think this would work for the OP, or anyone in a similar situation.

[JimGant]

With your Thai IDcard or passport you can get an extension of stay in your US-passport, good for 1 year. You can keep doing this till you leave Thailand and return on the Thai passport.

Believe that's what he did four years ago. But he's gotten tired of having to renew his extension annually, plus having to report every 90 days.

You must leave the country with your US passport on or before your visa expires.

Make that "before your permission of stay expires." His visa, which he entered Thailand on 4 years ago -- and on which he began a chain of extensions -- expired several years ago.

[Satcommlee]

Thailand does not accept dual citizenship! Tread carefully!

[vont]

Go out and come back in on your Thai passport. Then you can stay forever if you want.

I think that will only be sure to work if entering by air.

it always works.... leaving thailand with u.s. passport.... returning on thai passport....

by air, sea, train, bus, taxi meter, or walk.... across the border....

did all those.... five years ago....

[Lite Beer]

Thailand does not accept dual citizenship! Tread carefully!

They do not forbid it either.

Plenty of dual nationality Thais around.

[lopburi3]

Thailand does not accept dual citizenship! Tread carefully!

They do not forbid it either.

Plenty of dual nationality Thais around.

The same situation as the USA; but there is no problem having dual nationality as there is no law to prevent it.

[Mrjlh]

This clarifies the issue a bit more from the US State Dept website. Read the whole thing but particularly the last two paragraphs.

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1753.html

It points out the distinction of Nationality and Citizenship. :jap:

[Mario2008]

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[samran]

I know the general consensus here is that you can't swap passports when crossing a border by land.

Why wouldn't this work for the OP crossing into Laos.

He'd exit Thailand using his US passport.

He'd enter Laos using his Thai ID card to get a border pass. Since he's Thai, Laos will have no reason to question him about any other passport.

Cross back into Thailand using his Thai ID card again. He doesn't even have to show his Thai passport.

I understand why it's said it wouldn't work with 2 non Thai passports, but I think this would work for the OP, or anyone in a similar situation.

It won't work as he needs to be stamped out of Thailand on the THAI border pass. He won't be able to enter Laos if there isn't already a stamp in the Thai border pass.

Best advice, as others have said, is simply to to a quick/cheap flight somewhere, and get back on the plane and come straight back. Plenty of cheap deals on Air Asia these days.