Tourist Visa - one way ticket or what?

[thaimag]

Hello,

I am currently in Thailand on my ED Visa, going to end this Dec. however, I am planning to visit Indonesia or Malaysia for a week or two, but most of the embassies websites say for a Tourist visa, Round trip tickets are required.

What If I want to visit the mentioned country but then come back to my home country and not Thailand?

Am I forced to buy round trip tickets?

[7by7]

Surely as long as you have a ticket to leave the country within the required time, i.e. either a return ticket or an onward one, this would suffice?

[Donutz]

Indeed, a reservation or option to an other country were you will have legal access to should be perfectly allright. If you are a Philipine national who resides in Thailand it should be perfectly okay to head from Thaiand to Europe (UK, Schengen, ...) and back to the Philipines for a short holiday there. Add a letter in which you explain your plans and offer to show the ticket upon issueing of the visa.

They just simplify the things to "show a return booking" since nearly all visitors will (must) return home. but if say you would head onward to the US, Russia, name any country it would make no sense to demand a return ticket. Though I do assume if you would head onward to a third country that you do not have automatic access to, they'd like to see a visa for that country or some other evidence that makes it likely that you will depart their country (UK, Schengen area, ...) in time.

[thaimag]

Thank you guys!