Need Visa Transfered to New Passport — Major Suksawat or Imperial World Lad Phrao?

[jackspade]

Absolutely must get this done as quickly as possible. Can anyone recommend Major Suksuwat or Imperial World Lad Phrao as being a better place to get my visa transfered? I will be leaving work in 1 hour. Ideally I don't want to wait in line for 4 hours or something.

I am much closer to Lad Phrao but heard the lines were long...

Thank you

[ubonjoe]

If you have a visa you do not need to go to immigration because visas are not transfered.

If you have an extension of stay you obtained at immigration then you need to go to immigration.

Later in the day Lad Phrao would probably not be so crowded. They are open until 6:30.

[Wonka]

If you are leaving the country with a new passport, you can get the visa transferred at most borders posts (if not all).

The transferred visa will no be valid for reentry.

[ubonjoe]

If you are leaving the country with a new passport, you can get the visa transferred at most borders posts (if not all).

The transferred visa will no be valid for reentry.

They do not transfer the visa. They make an annotation of the visa entry and permit to stay date in the new passport. If the visa is still valid you must use both passports for when entering the country to show the visa in old passport.

If you have an extension of stay you must have it transferred at the immigration office where it was issued.

[jackspade]

Thanks for the advice, but what you're all saying is still unclear to me. If the transferred visa isn't valid for reentry, what's the point?

So if I present my old, expired passport with visa, AND my new, blank passport, then they will let me do the Ventiane run no problem?

I'm still going to the immigration office because 2 months ago I got turned away at the Laos border for red tape and I'm not letting that happen to me again.

So... Anyone know if Major Suksawat has less of a line than Imperial World?

[MikeandDow]

Thanks for the advice, but what you're all saying is still unclear to me. If the transferred visa isn't valid for reentry, what's the point?

So if I present my old, expired passport with visa, AND my new, blank passport, then they will let me do the Ventiane run no problem?

I'm still going to the immigration office because 2 months ago I got turned away at the Laos border for red tape and I'm not letting that happen to me again.

So... Anyone know if Major Suksawat has less of a line than Imperial World?

Ubonjoe is correct

to start off do you know what you have, is it a visa if so what , or do you have an extension of stay if so based on what, or do you just have a permmision to stay stamp. google will show you the diffrence

Visa's can not be tranferd the rest can

if you only have a visa you will have to show both passport untill the visa runs out no problems at border or airport

[ubonjoe]

I don't understand the red tape you mention. At the Nong Kai crossing it has been reported that they often send people to the immigration office for their stamps transfer if it is open otherwise they do it at the bridge.

If you have a visa in your old passport that is still valid you will use your old passport to show your visa and they will stamp your entry in the new one.

You might get turned away by immigration because they normally will only transfer stamps associated with an extension of stay.

[MikeandDow]

I don't understand the red tape you mention. At the Nong Kai crossing it has been reported that they often send people to the immigration office for their stamps transfer if it is open otherwise they do it at the bridge.

If you have a visa in your old passport that is still valid you will use your old passport to show your visa and they will stamp your entry in the new one.

You might get turned away by immigration because they normally will only transfer stamps associated with an extension of stay.

maybe this will help

Visa.docx

[jackspade]

Thanks for the help comrades. MikeandDow thanks for the doc, it helps to see that kind of information on the screen.

So I guess what I have isn't a visa after all, just a permission to stay stamp. It's the purple stamp shaped like a rectangle with the thick border with the letters B38 repeating. I think.

So what they did at immigration, I just got back, was put that full page "note" stamp and fill it out and then stamp the note with a blue rectangle that looks like a visa stamp but without the thick border. I'm good to go.

The red tape I ran into last time I went to Laos was that I had 4 months left on my passport. If you have less than 6, they will turn you away. UNLESS you're with a tour company that is able to work a little magic with the border patrol officers. OR you have the gift of negotiating—which I wasn't so good at at the time.

[ubonjoe]

That wasn't exactly red tape. Laos requires 6 months passport validity for entry which is the same for all neighbouring countries (also all of ASEAN).

[jackspade]

That wasn't exactly red tape. Laos requires 6 months passport validity for entry which is the same for all neighbouring countries (also all of ASEAN).

Good to know that all of ASEAN adheres to this same law. Hopefully I won't have to worry about it again until 2023.

For a newbie like me, red tape is the euphemism I use to make myself feel better about not being more aware of border regulations...

[ubonjoe]

I did a little research looking for countries nearby that allowed entry with less than 6 months and found that for a UK citizen (a member with a problem) the nearest location was Hong Kong.