Tourist Visa

[bobo42]

So I'm getting ready to send off my tourist visa application and had some questions. I'm from the US, I'm planning to use the Houston consulate again.

What I want to do is to get a one-way ticket to Thailand, and also purchase a ticket to Phnom Pehn to use as my "departing Thailand" ticket. Is this possible? Anybody know if they accept it? Last time, I showed a return ticket scheduled for 60 days from my arrival, and was granted a 3 entry tourist visa - but I ended up staying so long, that I had to buy a new return ticket rather because my original return expired.

Thanks for any info.

[moe666]

Does Houston require outbound ticket. You could buy a one year open ticket and that way you are covered for one year. The airline should allow you to board without a on going ticket with the tourist visa. I would check with houston about the need for onward bound ticket.Also you could check with Portland as well.

[CharlieH]

If you have a Consulate issued tourist visa you shouldnt need proof of onward travel, and if asked tell them you are going to Malaysia by bus at some point.

[lopburi3]

Although Consulate will often have ticket as part of documents listed they normally only require from third country applicants.

[DocW]

I have said this before but sometimes it's not the matter of having the return or onward ticket to show but it's the airlines that can be sticky. I live here in Thailand and just did a 2 month job in Kuwait, my company bought me my departure ticket from Bkk along with the return ticket for after the job was finished. When I went to get on the plane (Qatar airways) to return, they would not let me on the plane and told me I need to buy an onward ticket. Even though my Passport was issued in Bkk, my drivers licenses are Thai, my International Drivers license was issued in Bkk etc I had to buy a return ticked back to Kuwait before they would let me go (Thank god the company paid>)

moe666 had the best idea really.

[Sateev]

I have said this before but sometimes it's not the matter of having the return or onward ticket to show but it's the airlines that can be sticky. I live here in Thailand and just did a 2 month job in Kuwait, my company bought me my departure ticket from Bkk along with the return ticket for after the job was finished. When I went to get on the plane (Qatar airways) to return, they would not let me on the plane and told me I need to buy an onward ticket. Even though my Passport was issued in Bkk, my drivers licenses are Thai, my International Drivers license was issued in Bkk etc I had to buy a return ticked back to Kuwait before they would let me go (Thank god the company paid>)

moe666 had the best idea really.

If you have a visa, Tourist or otherwise, the airline will NOT prevent you from boarding, return ticket or not, per IATA rules. They are only 'sticky' when you expect to get a visa-exempt entry, and have no return ticket.

moe666 was incorrect. A 60-day Tourist visa is simplest.

[TerryLH]

moe666:

"The airline should allow you to board without a on going ticket with the tourist visa."

Sateev:

"If you have a visa, Tourist or otherwise, the airline will NOT prevent you from boarding, return ticket or not..."

"moe666 was incorrect."

Other than the wording, that looks the same to me. ???