Is it legal to courier a passport from the UK to Thailand?

[Jay Sata]

If it is a passport that has not been used to enter Thailand or one you will plan to exit the country with then there is no problem.

I've got a couple of passports and due to the amount of travel I've done over the last 20 years I have often had to have a new one sent by Fed Ex.

Unless there is some obvious scam such as trying to rip of the UK social services then there is no problem.

Always keep the old one with you unless like me you've been to countries where certain passports and stamps are not acceptable.

In the old days of hi jacking I never travelled with my British passport.

Just curious why you didn't want to travel with a British passport during the highjacking days.

A British or American passport was a liability as was an Israeli passport. More chance to be held as a hostage.

I've still got two British passports as Israeli stamps in a passport can cause problems in some parts of the world.

In certain occupations it is quite normal to hold two UK passports with the same expiry date.

[Jay Sata]

You can post anything you want including passports. Just make sure you send it by secure DHL or FEDEX.

Correct. UK banks often refuse to post debit and credit cards to Thailand which is on a list of countries where

mail is not secure.

[stament]

You can post anything you want including passports. Just make sure you send it by secure DHL or FEDEX.

Correct. UK banks often refuse to post debit and credit cards to Thailand which is on a list of countries where

mail is not secure.

Thanks all, documents arrived securely

[SteveB2]

The reason for sending the paspsort is important.

If a person sends a passport to the UK to obtain a visa for Thailand while he is in Thailand on a different passport it is not allowed and immigration will not be amused.

That's definitely not true. I entered Thailand without a visa and got my 30 days. During these 30 days I have somebody send my other passport with a one year multiple entry non-B visa to Thailand. This Monday I went to the immigration office and presented both passports and told them that I will exit on one passport and reenter on the other passport. They checked both passports and told me to go ahead. I exit Thailand by land crossing, got my Cambodian visa in the same passport, u-turn, exit Cambodia and went to Thai immigration. There I presented the passport with the multiple entry visa and reenter Thailand. No issues at all. Both passports are the same nationality, no double citizenship.

Fatfather

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I am not sure about this process...crossing by land or by crossing air appears to be important, since in my experience, different rules may apply.

I have two legal British passport for travel purposes to mutually inhospitable countries in the Middle East - the second passport (not the one I originally used to enter Thailand) had a nice new 1 year multi-entry that I wanted to now use. When I exited Thailand via the Thailand/Malaysia Sadao crossing, the following happened:-

Each LAND border crossing (Thailand to Malaysia, Malaysia to Singapore) stated that one of the international customs rules was that after leaving a country by its land crossing, passing through 'no mans land' from the previous land country, and entering into another bordering country, was that customs MUST stamp the entry visa into the same passport that contained the previous country's exit visa... and check that an exit visa stamp from the previous country is affixed to the passport. 'dam_n' I thought!

Eventually, on reaching Singapore by land from Malaysia, I asked to see the customs manager to try and get myself 'stamped' into Singapore on the new passport. It took many hours to sort out - but in the end, Singapore customs placed their entry stamp into the new passport, and I was able to return back to Malaysia and subsequently Thailand accordingly and use my new passport with new 1 year multi-entry.

I don't know what the issue was - perhaps other TV members may be able to explain.

Apparently, arriving by air into Singapore and using the brand new passport would have been no problem at all

[10120]

Well it's certainly easy to be in a position to carry 2 UK/EU passports. Having worked in Israel and neighbouring countries, it's pretty much the norm.

To answer the OP's original question: "...is it legal to courier a passport to Thailand". Yes, definitively.