None. But thats probably because most people applying for these visas can't prove their income and so go elsewhere.

Could you post the link to that report. I'd be interested to read it. But regardless one report or ten doesn't mean everyone will be denied. If the proof is inadequate they will deny the visa.

If 3 or 4 were the limit then the stamp would say sorry mate you've had you're lot so don't reapply. It doesn't. It asks for proof of income and residency when next applying.

Here you are http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/823134-proof-of-residence-financial-income-in-vientiane/

There were a case when Vientiane did actually said "sorry mate you've had you're lot so don't reapply."

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/832416-third-tourist-visa-got-a-remark-in-my-passport/

And I have a feeling the new 6 months tourist visa won't be renewable like they did in India. It's no coincidence that they start saying "no more than 6 months"

Cheers!

They obviously didn't like the documents given by the first guy. It's proof of income from abroad thats important and a Thai bank book on it's own doesn't do that. The second guy seems to have got a stamp saying "may" not get another.

I believe that these stamps are used as a deterrent. But at the same time they are giving people that can genuinely fund their stay, and can prove it, a chance to do so. The onus is on the applicant to satisfy the embassy that they have the funds coming in from abroad.

It's got be hard for the embassy because there are so many people applying there that are illegally working. My experience of visa runs to Vientiane is over 8 years old but I know first hand that many people on 3 or 4 are working.

Section 12: 2. of the immigration act says that people are excluded that have no appropriate means of living following entrance in to Thailand. IMO this is the part of the act that Vientiane want satisfied when people live here so long on Tourist visas. Anyone over 50 or married should be on Non 'O's and satisfy income that way. There can't be that many under 50's that can afford to live here for nearly two years without working. So Vientiane's genuine problem is how to weed out or at least make life hard for these workers.

I don't know if Vientiane have the authority to limit the number of visas from them. I doubt it. But they do have the authority to deny visas if the applicant can't prove their income source.

The first guy said the officer did not even want to LOOK AT his documents.

So "not liking his documents" is not an option, since he had not seen them.

It's the ED visa "Let's crackdown on fake students who don't go to school" all over again. When they were left with genuine students who spoke Thai and went to school, they still extort/harass them, with in their face, on each immigration desk a brochure presenting them with all the advantages of the Elite Visa.

They could not care less about who is a real student or who is working illegally here. If they would they would aim the sanction at the employers that hires foreigners without giving them a work permit, and that would be the end of it, but they never do, only the foreigner is in trouble. The Thai employer walks out free and ready to recruit a new batch of Euro/US suckers who will work for 25K a month and jump in every loop immigration throws at them,until they get jailed and deported.

No one in his right mind will pay 500K if they don't make tourist/ED visas a huge hassle. And that exactly what they are doing.

I'm over 50 (recently), but I remember a few hot days in Vientianne. If I were 10 years younger, I would be in Cambodia.

Edited August 15, 201510 yr by bangmai