No Time Or Space To Renew Passport

[Tony Stark]

Hi everyone, I was hoping someone else here has been in the same predicament as me and can give some advice.

I have 1 1/2 pages left in my British passport and my tourist visa which I have already extended expires in just over 2 weeks.

I need to get a new passport but understand it will take about a month. Is this correct?

If I apply now, my visa will expire before I get my new passport.

If I do a tourist visa run to cambodia then I won't have enough space for both full page visas and stamps. (2+ pages)

I could fly back into Thailand from cambodia to get a 30 day stamp and immediately apply for a new passport but that would be cutting things too close.

The only solution I can think of that may work is going to a country that just gives me a small stamp on arrival like Malaysia and get a 60 day tourist visa there. I guess I would have to make very sure the stamp doesn't go on the sole empty page. (1+ page)

Does anyone have a better idea?

Many thanks!

[BrianCR]

Sounds to me like you have the best idea and, don't trust the time schedule given for renewing a British passport, last time I renewed mine it took two weeks longer than the date promised - the reason? The young lady who made the promise to make sure I got it back on time went on holiday and forgot to tell someone! Lucky her, I paid the overstay fine!

[1huahin]

Make sure no stamps can be put onto your free pages by stapling two pages together; this worked for me as no immigration officer can be bothered to take the staple out just to get a blank page.

[BrianCR]

Make sure no stamps can be put onto your free pages by stapling two pages together; this worked for me as no immigration officer can be bothered to take the staple out just to get a blank page.

Pages are not allowed to be added in a British passport

[Dork]

If you apply for a Cambodian evisa online you just print it on an A4 sheet, it isn't stamped into your passport. That would save one page.

[Dork]

Also I think if you ask politely for the immigration officers to squeeze the exit/entry stamps between some old stamps, they will. I've done that in the past.

[lemonjelly]

Take a break in Malaysia.... you get a free 90 day visa that takes half a page. Then get the forms you need from the UK Embassy website. Get an International Bankers Draught (not possible in Penang unless you have an account with a bank there but elsewhere you can buy tthem over the counter)send it with your passport to Hong Kong... takes around 2 weeks to process.

[Tony Stark]

I'm so glad I finally joined this forum. Excellent replies. Thank you everyone.

Although a break in KL is tempting, I guess the best thing to do is to go to cambodia with the evisa after stapling that free page together, get the tourist visa there, and beg passport control to put the stamps snugly between others.

[Maestro]

I removed an off-topic post and the reply to it.

[1huahin]

Make sure no stamps can be put onto your free pages by stapling two pages together; this worked for me as no immigration officer can be bothered to take the staple out just to get a blank page.

Pages are not allowed to be added in a British passport

I said nothing about adding pages!

[BrianCR]

Sorry miss read - however British passport holders should note that unlike many other countries no pages can be added only a new passport issued