How Many Successive 15 Days/30 Days Visa On Arrival Are Possible

[uncle2011]

I am moving from Chiang Mai (where I stayed for one year on two successive double entry Tourist Visa) to Fang.

As Fang is not far from Maessai and as I want to avoid a red stamp in my passport at all costs I have the following

idea:

I am from the Netherlands and I will return there temporarily coming january 2012. . So for the coming 4 months it would be easy for me to go every 15 days to Maessai; cross the border and get a new 15 days Visa on arrival there. It would be easier, less risky and also cheaper then to apply for a new third Tourist Visa in Vientiane ( I got the previous two double entry-tourist visa there) .

My question is:: can I cross the Maessai border every 15 days to get a new 15 day stamp until january 2012 or is there a max to the crossings?

I will come back in april 2012 with a new passport so think (but correct me if I am wrong please) that then I can apply for a new tourist visa with little risk.

Hope you can help me with this. Thanks

[jdinasia]

Officially there is not a limit. But that border has been known to be arbitrary in the past.

[lopburi3]

As said your passport indicates to even a casual observer that you are living in Thailand rather than a traveling tourist (and thus perhaps an illegal worker) and it is possible they will tell you not to return.

[uncle2011]

As said your passport indicates to even a casual observer that you are living in Thailand rather than a traveling tourist (and thus perhaps an illegal worker) and it is possible they will tell you not to return.

As the answers I got (thanks for them) were not too encouraging I deceided not to extend my second double entry with 30 days at Immigration in Chiang Mai but to cross Maessai now (yesterday) and see what would happen.

I got my 15 days and it went very smoothly. Hopefully it stays that way. But I realize there is a risk so I made one change. Will go back to NL in november and return in december instead of the three months in 2012 (found cheap flight through Kuala Lumpur and London Gatwick and then to Amsterdam with Air Asia). I will get me a brand new passport in NL (with no Visa history). Think I then can do the tourist visa in Vientiane for 2012.

Do you agree that with my new passport there is little risk ?

Like I said in my previous post I want to avoid red stamps in my passport at any costs.