Would be grateful if someone can confirm, am I right in thinking you need to submit just the one photo when applying for a Laos visa on arrival at land border crossings?

Cheers

I found this:-

Requirements

(application for a tourist visa on arrival)

Download Lao visa on arrival application form

1. Your original passport with at least 6 months of remaining validity and a blank page for a visa stamp
   
2. A Visa application form, filled and signed by the applicant (available at visa booth at Lao ports of entry or download it here (in the box).
   
3. Two(2) recent passport-type photographs.
   
4. Visa fee (cash)
   

OK, thanks.

Maybe I was wrong then.

One (1), I was just up to Vientiane last week via the Friendship Bridge at Nong Khai-Thannaleng.

Mac

One (1), I was just up to Vientiane last week via the Friendship Bridge at Nong Khai-Thannaleng.

Mac

That's good.

It'll probably be the Mukdahan / Savannakhet crossing though, but I'm guessing they'll have the same policy.

FYI, I just carry several photos of different sizes clipped in the back of my passport, at least that way no worry to forget to take some.

Mac

In Nong Khai sometimes one and sometime two. Better you take a 6 set (as most issue in Thailand are 6 sets) and carry them.

One (1), I was just up to Vientiane last week via the Friendship Bridge at Nong Khai-Thannaleng.

Mac

Same, I was up there at the start of the month and only needed one.

I was at Chong Mek/Vang Tau last week and just handed over one photo.

An American friend didn't hand any photos in, and wasn't asked for one either.

I found this:-

Requirements

(application for a tourist visa on arrival)

Download Lao visa on arrival application form

1. Your original passport with at least 6 months of remaining validity and a blank page for a visa stamp
   
2. A Visa application form, filled and signed by the applicant (available at visa booth at Lao ports of entry or download it here (in the box).
   
3. Two(2) recent passport-type photographs.
   
4. Visa fee (cash)
   

Having posted the above, I now have a visa application form in my hands (ahead of a trip next week) and there is just one space for a photo. Prudent to always take a spare.

Can anyone tell me if the Thai embassy in Ventaine issue extensions of non emigrant multiple entry O visas based on marriage.

Do the Chong Nek border run every 3 months, one photo if just a turn around 2 if staying in Lao. Have forgotten the photo once, no problem as I was just doing the visa run. Jim

For Possum1931

Posted Today, 16:38

Can anyone tell me if the Thai embassy in Ventaine issue extensions of non emigrant multiple entry O visas based on marriage.

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Visa "extensions" for marriage or retirement are done at a Thai Immigration office in Thailand, not at their Embassy in Vientiane.

Or, are you perhaps asking about obtaining another Non-O visa there in Vientiane??

Mac

Khun Cardholder, and others, Sawasdee Khrup,

fyi: last time, November, 2011, I made the crossing from Nongkhai into Laos, I used the Laos form I had downloaded, which I had already prepared: I was told by the Immigration intake-person on the Laos side of the bridge, that she would accept my form "this time," but she said they would not accept that form in the future. And they had a different looking, smaller form they were passing out.

I have the form I downloaded last year, and compared it to the one you linked to: they are the exact same size, created with the same version of Acrobat, and, visually, appear to be the same.

Hopefully we'll hear on this forum from someone who may have recently used that downloadable form, and what their experience was: meanwhile: you might not want to glue the picture on the downloadable form until you are sure you can use it.

best, ~o:37;

Edited May 20, 201214 yr by orang37

I read in the "Visa on arrival" that the elderly aged over 65 can enter Laos visa free.

Have anyone over 65 tried this and did not pay the visa fee? and did you have to fill out the visa-form?

I am from Denmark

Perconrad

FYI, I've got that 65 year mark beat by a few years, and I paid my $35 on 8 May at Thannaleng for my Lao VOA.

Mac

I just came over the Friendship Bridge today. One passport sized photo needed, and the cost was 1,300 baht for an Australian for a 30 day visa.

I will return on Tuesday, after getting a non-imi O single entry visa, and promise to send a report to update everyone on my Vientienne experience.

So far so good, and I am enjoying my first ever Beer Lao!