Hello,

First, I am a dummy in visas. I am French, but staying in Budapest in Hungary right now. I have a flight ticket 24th November 23d February = 3 months. I went to the Thai Embassy twice and they refused me the 60 days tourist visa because I am not Hungarian, that I have no resident permit in Hungary andd they didn't want to hear that I was just staying in Hungary as a tourist. They say I have to go back in France, in Paris to get it. I wrote to Lyon Thai consulat in France where they use to give this visa by shipping your original passport. They have can't do it by post office only in France not in Hungary. I should find someone in France, send him my passport, that he sends to Lyon consulat in France then he would receive back the visa and send me back again. That means a lot of shipping of my original passport with the risk of losing everything at the last moment and not be able to travel if my passport is lost/stolent in these 4 shippings... why the simple way to get a visa in Thai Embassy in the city of Budapest is not possible?

Many Embassies will only issue visas to residents of the countries where they are located.

You could come without a visa and get a 30 day visa exempt entry.

Then you could extend that for 30 days at immigration and when that expires you could do a border run and "hopefully" get another visa exempt entry.

Or you could come and get a 30 day visa exempt entry and then go to Laos, Savannakhet or Vientiane, and get a single entry tourist visa.

The problem that you might have with the above is that you have a ticket exiting Thailand on 23 Feb. The airline that you are using might not let you board the flight to Thailand without a ticket exiting within 30 days. You could buy a cheap one way ticket, say Hat Yai to KL, and use that to get on the flight and then toss it, many do.

Thank you Wayned,

It seems that I could be denied boarding. Has someone already been denied boarding in Istambul with Turkish Airlines?

In any case, around December 20, I should go somewhere visiting/making a 60 days tourist visa in some country around Chiang May. So maybe a cheap ticket (Xmas is good for the cheapest tickets as I saw on Airasia) would make me fly to a city where I can have this visa and I could come back in Chiang Mai where I have already a room booked for three months. I could visite the place I take the visa in during a few days. I was thinking about Laos but the ticket are over 100 € while BKK or Hat Yai as you suggest has some good ticket around 40-50€ to Mayamar or Malaysia... Any suggestion how I could plan this visa one week trip to visit Asia (it's my first time in Asia and above all to have this onward ticket I would need when starting in Budapest or Istambul?

Thank you in advance for your experience sharing and ideas

Cyril

Edited October 15, 201411 yr by Cyril G

From Chiang Mai your choices are limited. Many flights will require connecting through Bangkok.

Nok Air has flights that are a fly/ride service to Vientiane via Udon Thani from CM. I can recall a report of this being accepted as an onward ticket. Info for this service is here: http://www.nokair.com/contents/promotion/vientiane/en-US/index.html

I checked the fare for a trip in at Christmas and it was a little over 3000 baht.