Totally confused by current changes in regs.

After August 12, can UK passport holders still get 30 days at land borders??? I have no entries or exits in/out of Thailand in this passport for over 6 months

I should add that I want to exit on my Australian passport holding double entry tourist visa which finishes August 17 and re-enter the SAME day on my UK passport which has no stamps in or out since over 6 months. I have a ticket to UK Sept 15.

I read one cannot switch passports at a land border though I have done it in the past. But given new regs and new crackdown after August 12 I am now a little nervous about doing this at a land border.

Thanks in advance for any info and recent experiences.

Edited July 25, 201412 yr by huahin hinny

Nobody knows exactly what the new regulations will be after 12 August. You should be able to fly out and come back in on a different passport but, usually they check for exit stamps in your passport when you enter by land and will not let you change passports. You said that you did it in the past so you have more experience than I do but the consensus is that you can't change passports on a land entry.

Why do people keep thinking August 12th is such a big deal. It is only the date set to have rules in place to enforce out/in rules at the airport.

Changing passports will not hide your entries and departures from immigration that have a database with all those in it . The can and will do a name and date of birth search for your previous entries on another passport.

If you only have tourist visa entries you can get an exempt entry. They are only counting exempt entries as far as I know.

Where is it in writing by immigration officials that August 12 "is only the date set to have rules in place to enforce out/in rules at the airport"? If it is in writing, I haven't seen it, it just seems to have magically appeared in someone's crystal ball.

The August 29th date for the implementation of 30 day extensions on visa exempt entries has appeared and disappeared.

The rules on overstay have come, gone and come back again with people doing extensions required to sign a document stating that they understand but no official mention of implementation date.

People being turned away at some border crossings with valid visas because they have a history of many visa exempt and tourist visa entries.

If August 12 is not the date then what is the date that immigration will publish the updated rules so that everybody is working from the same page?

The August 12th date was mentioned months ago when the exempt entry crackdown first stared. The August 29th date has not gone away the 30 day extensions will happen. The new overstay rules have not been approved yet the date for that is perhaps sometime in September.

This announcement says it is the date the crackdown on exempt entries will officially start.

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