triple entry

[rickthailand]

when i go to holland and the embassy gives me a triple enty tourist visa does that mean that

every 2moths i can extend at immigration or is there expire date for the visa.

my question is a triple entry good for 9 months?(sometimes i wish i was 50!!)

thanx

rick

[ubonjoe]

A tourist visa gives you a 60 day permit to stay on your first entry that can be extended for 30 days at immigration. Then you must leave the country and return to use the next entry of your visa and get a new 60 day entry that can also be extended for 30 days.

Your visa will have a enter before date on it which is when the visa expires 6 months from the date of issue. You must use all 3 entries prior to that date.

If you do the 3rd entry just before the enter before date you can get almost 9 months of total stay.

[wayned]

I thought that the Embassy in Holland was very strict on the issuance of triple entry tourist visas and required tickets, or at least an itinerary that showed entrance and exit to/from Thailand for all three entrances during the visa validity period..

[IMA_FARANG]

No.

A triple entry tourist visa is issued for a specific period of time.

Usually (in most European Thai consulates or embassies and in the U.S.A. that is 180 days. but in some other countries is only 90 days.

The triple entry tourist visa therefore expires after that period.... usually shown on the visa as a "must enter before" date.

That "must enter before" period starts the day the triple entry visa tourist visa is ISSUED and NOT the date you enter Thailand.

So. in effect, a triple entry tourist visa is often valid for 180 days from the date of issue by the Thai consulate or embassy that issues it.

In that 180 day period you must use all three entries in that triple entry visa.

Each entry is good for a 60 day stay with a possible 30 day extension on that 60 day stay for a fee of 1900 baht for each extension.

By careful use of your entry dates, you can extend that 180 day period to close to 270 days.

You will probably never get exactly 270 days.

The logic for giving you 180 days before the visa expires is that it has a "permitted to stay" entry stamp of 60 days for each entry and 3 times 60 days per entry is a total of 180 days stay.

By making your 3rd entry on day 180 .... before the visa expires .... you can get another 60 days permitted to stay stamp and another 30 day extension on that stamp ..... or nearly 180 day plus (60 plus 30) or a total if nearly 270 days.

Thus about the best you can do, by careful management of the dates of your entries and extensions is about 270 days.

It is NOT 9 months in most cases.

A triple entry tourist visa requires careful management of the days available and the entries and extensions made to stretch it to around 270 days time in country.

And you have to be careful to take care that a triple entry tourist visa starts when it is issued in your home country and NOT from the date you enter Thailand.

[rickthailand]

thanks for the info now i know i will go get the visa at the end of my 5 week holiday so i can stretch

it as long as possible.

rick

[riclag]

Another thing is to look at a Thai Calendar to make sure your immigration visits don't conflict with Thai and buda holiday's ,the office is usually closed for observance.

http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/thailand/