Tourist Visa For Several Months

[Mary33]

I am from Germany.

I received a tourist visa in October 2011 for 3 months. Now I plan to go to Laos for the next tourist visa.

What is the cheapest visa for several months concerning all the fees?? Multy entry for 6 months?? or Single entry for 3 months and do all the procedure again??

My visa is valid until 23.01.2012.

Am I am to late when I pass the border at 23.01.2012?

Thank you

[lopburi3]

If you are 'permitted to stay' (the stamp you received on arrival) until the 23rd you can leave that day. Visa expiration has nothing to do with permitted to stay time and is just the date on your visa before which you must enter.

Tourist visa is 1,000 baht each entry.

[LuckyLew]

If you are going out of the country to get a tourist visa

and you do not know exactly how long you will be staying in Thailand

for, it would be best to apply for a double entry tourist visa.

Single tourist visa costs 1000

Double tourist visa costs 2000

[Mary33]

Thank you so far but I am not familiar with all the different words.

How long is a double visa valid?

What do I have axactly to do?

E.g. when I applied for a single entry for 3 months, I did not know that after 2 months I had to go to a Thai embassy to extend my stay for another 30 days and pay another 1900 Baht.

What about this for the double entry?

[lopburi3]

I hope you have not tried to do that as you go to Immigration inside Thailand and submit a TM.7 form and pay 1,900 baht if you desire the extra 30 days. There is no requirement to use this extension however. You can obtain a new visa and use that for entry. A two entry visa would allow two entries during the (usually 3 months) it remains valid for entry. You would request a 2 entry tourist visa and pay twice the fee. To use second entry you just exit country and return.

[Mary33]

Yes – you are right – of course it was the immigration.

"You can obtain a new visa and use that for entry. "

How long valid is that then??

"A two entry visa would allow two entries during the (usually 3 months) it remains valid for entry. You would request a 2 entry tourist visa and pay twice the fee."

Means 1 x 2000 Baht??

"To use second entry you just exit country and return."

No payment ?

How long valid then?

Thank you so much because I could not find any answer in the internet.

[lopburi3]

As I said the normal validity of a visa is 3 months and that is also what most two entry are from local Consulates. Once you enter Thailand the visa validity does not matter as you then have a permitted to stay time that can extend well beyond visa validity.

There is no payment for return to Thailand on a second entry but if you travel to a country that requires a visa for entry you will have to pay for that. You must exit Thailand, enter another country and then return.

[TerryLH]

OP, each entry will allow a permission to stay for 60 days, just like the one you came here on did.

[wayned]

If you get a double entry tourist visa - 2000 baht - that is valid for 3 months, when you enter Thailand the first time you will get 60 days permission to stay. Toward the end of the 60 days you can go to immigration and extend for another 30 days - cost 1900 baht. Near the end of the 30 day extension you must leave and re-enter. BUT YOU MUST LEAVE AND RE-ENTER BEFORE THE "MUST ENTER BY" DATE ON YOUR VISA, NOT THE "PERMISSION TO STAY DATE STAMPED IN YOUR PASSPORT! When you re-enter you will get 60 days permission to stay which can be entended for another 30 days.- cost 1900 baht. So the total cost for approximately 189 days is 2000 + 19000 + 190 = 5800 baht.

The visa is a ticket to enter Thailand, just like a bus pass, and you must use both entries before the "must enter by" date on your VISA!

[dan249ster]

If you get a double entry tourist visa - 2000 baht - that is valid for 3 months, when you enter Thailand the first time you will get 60 days permission to stay. Toward the end of the 60 days you can go to immigration and extend for another 30 days - cost 1900 baht. Near the end of the 30 day extension you must leave and re-enter. BUT YOU MUST LEAVE AND RE-ENTER BEFORE THE "MUST ENTER BY" DATE ON YOUR VISA, NOT THE "PERMISSION TO STAY DATE STAMPED IN YOUR PASSPORT! When you re-enter you will get 60 days permission to stay which can be entended for another 30 days.- cost 1900 baht. So the total cost for approximately 189 days is 2000 + 19000 + 190 = 5800 baht.

The visa is a ticket to enter Thailand, just like a bus pass, and you must use both entries before the "must enter by" date on your VISA!

I'm sorry but i don't quite understand the structure of your post.

I'm going out on a 90 day single entry visa. If i want to stay in Thailand past 90 days what is the best way to do that? I'm doing a diving course at Buddha View on Koh Tao in february and one of the guys there mentioned going to Laos to extend to a tourist visa?

[wayned]

If you get a double entry tourist visa - 2000 baht - that is valid for 3 months, when you enter Thailand the first time you will get 60 days permission to stay. Toward the end of the 60 days you can go to immigration and extend for another 30 days - cost 1900 baht. Near the end of the 30 day extension you must leave and re-enter. BUT YOU MUST LEAVE AND RE-ENTER BEFORE THE "MUST ENTER BY" DATE ON YOUR VISA, NOT THE "PERMISSION TO STAY DATE STAMPED IN YOUR PASSPORT! When you re-enter you will get 60 days permission to stay which can be entended for another 30 days.- cost 1900 baht. So the total cost for approximately 189 days is 2000 + 19000 + 190 = 5800 baht. The visa is a ticket to enter Thailand, just like a bus pass, and you must use both entries before the "must enter by" date on your VISA!

I'm sorry but i don't quite understand the structure of your post. I'm going out on a 90 day single entry visa. If i want to stay in Thailand past 90 days what is the best way to do that? I'm doing a diving course at Buddha View on Koh Tao in february and one of the guys there mentioned going to Laos to extend to a tourist visa?

The structure of my post was aimed at telling Mary33, the OP, how to get the most out of a double entry 3 month tourist visa and the costs. If you are coming to Thailand on a 3 month single entry tourist visa, when you enter thailand you will get 60 days permission to stay. That can be extended for another 30 days at, in your case, immigration on Koh Samui and then you nust go to a consulate in a neighboring country and apply for a new visa. If you are taking a course at a certified diving school why don't you apply for an ED visa? You would need paperwork from the school to apply for it showing that you have registered, upon entry into Thailand you would get 90 days permission to stay and at the end of the 90 days you could extend the permission to stay for another 90 days ar Samui with the paperwork from the diving school.-cost 1900 baht. You wouldn't have to go to a neighboring country to apply for another visa.