Mae sai visa situation - latest

[Chiengmaijoe]

I heard tonight that they are knocking back repeat visitors at Maesai, and apparently refusing visas at Vientiane to people with multiple Maesai stamps. Anyone else heard this. It doesn't affect me of course, but forewarned ...... and all that.

[anto]

Thats old news .Its for people doing 2 week stamps .They can only get 3 or 4 in a row at MaiSai for about a year now .

[heybruce]

I had no problems with my one year non-immigrant visa two weeks ago, and I have accumulated many Mae Sai stamps over the past few years. I hope this is only happening to long-term tourists; if they are causing some kind of problems for people with legitimate one year visas it is a new development, and I'm sure many people would like more information.

[Chiengmaijoe]

Sorry to confuse, it applies to multiple two week visas. I know they have clamped down in the past, but I got the impression, maybe wrongly, that they had relaxed the rules for a while, and now they are enforcing it again.

[rene123]

Although I think Thailand could streamline the visa stamp process and keep the money in Thailand, I do believe Thailand is a lot more helpful to tourists than say Canada or the USA. A tourist certainly can't stay indefinitely in Canada with just a Quick trip across a border. Of course, if you were a Thai tourist in Canada and over stayed your visit by ONE day, and you attempted to cross into the USA for an hour. it is an absolute certainty you would be detained in jail until you were deported and never allowed to return.

[CMKiwi]

I had in the past done several quick trips to Mae Sae, until I decided what I was going to do for the future...ie stay in Thailand or move to Cambodia. I found CM to be a great place so decided to stay in Thailand. Vientiane provided a double entry visa and coupled with the 1 month extension from CM Immigration means I can manage 6 months in country.

All very good and better than fortnightly trips to MS..... which I must admit I did for about 4 months!

I am now looking at applying for retirement visa and shall likely do that after my first break from working overseas.

I can already hear those grumpy old longtime expats saying: Bloody freeloaders!

Hey Ive stayed completely legal albeit not necessarily in the general frame of a tourist visa. But I dont work here and pay my way. It is a great place to be.

[RaysFan]

Although I think Thailand could streamline the visa stamp process and keep the money in Thailand, I do believe Thailand is a lot more helpful to tourists than say Canada or the USA. A tourist certainly can't stay indefinitely in Canada with just a Quick trip across a border. Of course, if you were a Thai tourist in Canada and over stayed your visit by ONE day, and you attempted to cross into the USA for an hour. it is an absolute certainty you would be detained in jail until you were deported and never allowed to return.

Lol where did you get this info????? Over stay your visa or enter America illegally.... the only thing that will happen to you is you will become American!!!! Look at how many illegal mexicans and cubans there are. .. I think that alone proves my point...

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[hellodolly]

Although I think Thailand could streamline the visa stamp process and keep the money in Thailand, I do believe Thailand is a lot more helpful to tourists than say Canada or the USA. A tourist certainly can't stay indefinitely in Canada with just a Quick trip across a border. Of course, if you were a Thai tourist in Canada and over stayed your visit by ONE day, and you attempted to cross into the USA for an hour. it is an absolute certainty you would be detained in jail until you were deported and never allowed to return.

Hard as it is to believe but Canada is even more Paranoid than the states. I know I have tried to get my wife into both I hold legal residence in both. Sunny Surrey just a hop skip and a jump away from Seattle and even closer to rainy Vancouver Island.

Just to get a tourist visa into either one of them requires all kinds of nonsense. Unlike Thailand get on an air plane get off in Thailand and Oh here let me welcome you here is a 30 day visa and if you want more you can get more by going to Lao, Cambodia or Malaysia some up to 270 days. Or if only a couple of weeks just hop across the border into Myanmar.

As far as sneaking across the border from Mexico if they catch you they send you back. I don't know exactly how you would get them into Mexico in the first place. I checked there is no flights from Thailand to Mexico that do not stop in the US. Probably go to Europe and then into Mexico. But I am reasonably sure Mexico would not impress my wife. After living here for 7 years I know it would not impress me. Not that it did the three times I was there before. Then it was just a novelty.

[heybruce]

Although I think Thailand could streamline the visa stamp process and keep the money in Thailand, I do believe Thailand is a lot more helpful to tourists than say Canada or the USA. A tourist certainly can't stay indefinitely in Canada with just a Quick trip across a border. Of course, if you were a Thai tourist in Canada and over stayed your visit by ONE day, and you attempted to cross into the USA for an hour. it is an absolute certainty you would be detained in jail until you were deported and never allowed to return.

Lol where did you get this info????? Over stay your visa or enter America illegally.... the only thing that will happen to you is you will become American!!!! Look at how many illegal mexicans and cubans there are. .. I think that alone proves my point...

Sent from my GT-I9500

Because of the history and politics of the situation, any Cuban who can set foot in the U.S. can claim political refugee status and stay indefinitely.

[limegreenpatato]

Although I think Thailand could streamline the visa stamp process and keep the money in Thailand, I do believe Thailand is a lot more helpful to tourists than say Canada or the USA. A tourist certainly can't stay indefinitely in Canada with just a Quick trip across a border. Of course, if you were a Thai tourist in Canada and over stayed your visit by ONE day, and you attempted to cross into the USA for an hour. it is an absolute certainty you would be detained in jail until you were deported and never allowed to return.

And that's why our country isn't filled with other countries criminals. Except all the Somalians and Jamaicans, i don't know how they keep managing to get in.

[LawrenceChee]

Although I think Thailand could streamline the visa stamp process and keep the money in Thailand, I do believe Thailand is a lot more helpful to tourists than say Canada or the USA. A tourist certainly can't stay indefinitely in Canada with just a Quick trip across a border. Of course, if you were a Thai tourist in Canada and over stayed your visit by ONE day, and you attempted to cross into the USA for an hour. it is an absolute certainty you would be detained in jail until you were deported and never allowed to return.

And that's why our country isn't filled with other countries criminals. Except all the Somalians and Jamaicans, i don't know how they keep managing to get in.

Cruise ships ?