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double entry visa is up, but want to stay longer

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Hello All,

My double entry tourist visa -the second entry- is up February 28th, I'm planning to extend this 30 days to March 28th. I have a flight to Cambodia the end of March, but I want to come back into Thailand just for 3 weeks to be here for Songkran and other events. Could I come back into Thailand say April 1st and be exempt from a visa if I have a return home to the states flight for April 21? or do I need to apply for another 30 day tourist visa once in Cambodia?

More details:

The first of my double entry visa started october 5, expired December 5 but extended 30 days to January 4, 2015

Left Thailand for Malaysia and returned December 30 which activated my second entry, my new expire date is February 28th

I am 25 and U.S. citizen.

Thank you for the help!

No problem returning for 3 weeks or 30 days.

If you want you could even get a new double entry in Laos.

do I need to apply for another 30 day tourist visa once in Cambodia?

Tourist visas, as I think you already know, give you a 60 day entry, extendable for another 30 days. The 30 day permission to stay is what you get at the border as a visa exempt entry. No visa, you just get the permission to stay stamp.

According to the Thai Embassy in Cambodia

Nationals of the United States of America and 41 other countries are eligible

to travel to Thailand, for tourism purpose, with the exemption of visa and

are permitted to stay in the Kingdom for a period of not exceeding 30 days.

Therefore, you do not need a visa.

However, please make sure that you are in possession of a passport valid for

at least 6 months, a round-trip air ticket, and adequate finances equivalent to

at least 10,000 Baht per person or 20,000 Baht per family. Otherwise, you may be

inconvenienced upon entry into the country.

Edited by Suradit69

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Thank you! My only concern with coming in to Thailand again for 3 weeks with a visa exemption would be that they would see I've been here for 6 months prior and might not grant me entry as a tourist again. Thoughts??

(I've been to other countries where the same rules are stated on their visa website but they thought me staying long blocks of time was suspicious in that I was possibly looking for work illegally so only granted me 1 week in a similar situation as this.)

Which makes me wonder, is it legal then to enter as a tourist with a visa exemption and do border runs every 30 days, essentially staying here in Thailand as long as you want?

If you come in and out using the visa exception entry ( visa on arrival ) you will be marked "in-out" and eventually denied. I wouldn't use the visa on arrival option too many times in a row. They are very strict about it these days.

If you come in and out using the visa exception entry ( visa on arrival )

You mean "visa exempt". Not "visa exception", not visa on arrival.

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