Hi,

Both my girlfriend and I are on Non-O Education visas (extension of stay). They both run out next week however we only have flights back to the UK at the end of July.

Therefore we thought we could do a visa run up to Mae Sai and get a 30 days (I have a UK passport and she has a German one). Today we went to immigration to cancel our education visas.

After they had cancelled our Education visas from the 5th July (the day we have booked tickets for a bus to Mae Sai) we double checked whether we could get 30 days by going out-in.... we assumed we could as this would be our first visa run and heard that G7 countries get 30 days at land crossings. The staff seemed very sketchy about this, like it might not be such a good idea to go to Mae Sai and were hinting that we should go to Laos and get a tourist visa.

We have the plane tickets to the UK all printed out - do you think we'll have problems trying to get 30 days at Mae Sai?

Many thanks in advance!

T

You will have no problem getting a 30 day visa exempt entry since you are not on one now.

They do not take being on visa entries or extensions of stay into consideration when you enter to get a visa exempt entry.

Thanks UbonJoe, thats what we thought. Just seems weird that both CM immigration and our language school were dubious about this.

It was only the other day that we remembered that we had to cancel our ed visas - so since then we thought we were taking all the correct steps to make this whole process as easy as possible.