Hi,

Here are my situation, I train in Muay Thai and I stay at Bangkok 4 months from March to July 2014 with 4 visa exemption in a row at Aranyaprathet border. Then I go back to France from 8 July to 4 August and come back the 5 August in Bangkok with a single entry tourist visa valid until the 3 October.

I want to stay until 18 December 2014, then I fly in other country and come back for 3 January 2015 and I want to stay until the end of the month before going back to France.

So I have already spent 6 months in Thailand, what is the best way to do? I was thinking of going to immigration office on beginning of October for making 1 month extension until end of October and then go To Ventiane or Phnom Penh for apply for a new single tourist visa for November and December. Then in January as I will enter by plane I didn't know if I will obtain the 30 days visa exemption or not?

If you have any other idea or solution it will be great, don't hesitate to propose any other alternative.

Thanks in advance for your help

You should get your 30 day extension then go out for a tourist visa as you mentioned.

There is no 6 month limit if that is what you are thinking.

You will be able to enter In January and get a 30 day exempt entry without a problem. Only doing back to back visa exempt entries is restricted.

Thanks for your help, it sounds good, I was afraid about the fact of cumuling 2 tourist visa with my past history of 4 visa exemption back to back but if you say that's not a problem I don't need to worry anymore

Ubonjoe, are these two sentences saying the same thing? Or is "recent ones" a different matter than "back to Back?"

Here you write:

You will be able to enter In January and get a 30 day exempt entry without a problem. Only doing back to back visa exempt entries is restricted.

On Aug 29 you wrote:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/755854-ed-visa-extension-update-definitive-from-chaengwattana-immigration-today/

You should have no problem getting a visa exempt entry at a border crossing since you have had no recent ones.

For me the main question is, "Do several back to back visa exemptions this calendar year prejudice granting another one? (In my case, since the most recent visa exempt entry, there was a tourist visa and then an absence of 2 months.) Also, if "recent ones" is important, what is the definition of "recent?" Does anyone know?

Thanks.

Recent would really be being on one already. I wrote recent because he did not have one already.

Immigration guidelines are that the limitation of visa exempt entries is staying for the entire 30 or 15 day entry and then going out and immediately coming back for another entry.

Recent would really be being on one already. I wrote recent because he did not have one already.

Immigration guidelines are that the limitation of visa exempt entries is staying for the entire 30 or 15 day entry and then going out and immediately coming back for another entry.

So if someone comes in for 2 weeks, and then leaves Thailand for a 4 night trip to another country, and then re-enters Thailand, there will be no problems getting a 2nd tourist visa?

Recent would really be being on one already. I wrote recent because he did not have one already.

Immigration guidelines are that the limitation of visa exempt entries is staying for the entire 30 or 15 day entry and then going out and immediately coming back for another entry.

So if someone comes in for 2 weeks, and then leaves Thailand for a 4 night trip to another country, and then re-enters Thailand, there will be no problems getting a 2nd tourist visa?

They are not tourist visas they are visa exempt entries.

Yes a person can enter on a visa exempt entry stay for a coulee of weeks and go out for 4 days return and get another exempt entry.

Recent would really be being on one already. I wrote recent because he did not have one already.

Immigration guidelines are that the limitation of visa exempt entries is staying for the entire 30 or 15 day entry and then going out and immediately coming back for another entry.

So if someone comes in for 2 weeks, and then leaves Thailand for a 4 night trip to another country, and then re-enters Thailand, there will be no problems getting a 2nd tourist visa?

They are not tourist visas they are visa exempt entries.

Yes a person can enter on a visa exempt entry stay for a coulee of weeks and go out for 4 days return and get another exempt entry.

Thanks

Thanks for your help, it sounds good, I was afraid about the fact of cumuling 2 tourist visa with my past history of 4 visa exemption back to back but if you say that's not a problem I don't need to worry anymore

You sound familiar.

Recent would really be being on one already. I wrote recent because he did not have one already.

Immigration guidelines are that the limitation of visa exempt entries is staying for the entire 30 or 15 day entry and then going out and immediately coming back for another entry.

So if someone comes in for 2 weeks, and then leaves Thailand for a 4 night trip to another country, and then re-enters Thailand, there will be no problems getting a 2nd tourist visa?

They are not tourist visas they are visa exempt entries.

Yes a person can enter on a visa exempt entry stay for a coulee of weeks and go out for 4 days return and get another exempt entry.

Had a friend do it 6 weeks or so back. In and out of Thailand to various locations in SE Asia by land entries using Bangkok as the hub. Never had an issue and was not asked for any supporting documents.

What I do is I get a double entry 60 day tourist visa. After 60 days, I get the 30 day extension. Then at the 90 day mark, I leave the country and come back in on the same visa. After 60 more days I get another 30 day extension. This gives you 6 months in Thailand on one regular 60 day tourist visa.

The fees are $80 (2300 baht) for the visa (in the USA), 1900 baht for each extension, so it adds up a bit, but not so bad for 6 months.