I am pretty sure I have read on this forum that if a Thai person has a US visa that is valid for several more years but is in an expired Thai passport that both the expired passport with the valid US visa and a current valid passport can be presented at immigration without any problems. I would like to confirm this before traveling. Thanks.

Moved to visas for other countries forum.

You are correct.

For as long a the visa remains valid in the old passport you can use it by showing both passport when traveling to the US.

Thanks, much appreciated!

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Yes, I can verify this personally. Wife has ten year, pp expired. We used visa in old pp and her new pp for entry to US. I think it actually states somewhere on dos or bkk emb website that they do not transf visas and this method is fine. Will get tedious when you need to get yet another pp after five yrs and carry three pps perhaps.

My wife has a 10 year visitor visa in her old expired passport, still valid for 7 more years. However the old passport is in her maiden name, while the new passport has her married (my) surname. The US visa is in her maiden name too. We went to Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Chiang Mai and had them endorse the new passport with a stamp which makes reference to the old passport name and number and confirms that "the visas duly affixed (in the old passport) still remain valid". This is probably useful in cases where there is any significant variation between the old and new passports, ie. name change, spelling, appearance, etc.

Petey

Good idea, thanks, have saved to my HDD for future reference.

Mac

I love the search feature. Answered my question. Thanks.