You can now apply online for a 15 day visa on arrival for Thailand

[Jonathan Fairfield]

You can now apply online for a 15 day visa on arrival for Thailand

BANGKOK:-- Thailand's Immigration Bureau has announced that visitors from 19 countries can now apply online for a 15 day visa on arrival.

The 15 day visa on arrival is available to visitors arriving at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Some of the nationalities entitled to apply for the visa include China, Kazakhstan, Romania and Saudi Arabia.

A full list of those eligible for the visa on arrival can be found here: http://www.consular.go.th/main/contents/filemanager/VISA/Visa%20on%20Arrival/VOA_25_08_58.pdf

Applicants are required to apply online prior to travel, print out and then present the completed application form to Immigration at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

You can find out more on the 15 day visa on arrival by watching the video below

Source: Thailand Immigration

-- 2015-10-12

[puukao]

I just applied FIVE times.

Hold on, I'm American....

[TheAppletons]

Funny, this is nothing more than a way to push the Immigration data entry process for visitors onto the visitors themselves, instead of the Immigration officers. Note that you don't get approval for a visa on arrival, you've just entered the information into the database so that the Immigration officials don't have to do it when you get there. Might save some time, I suppose - though if the online VOA application process works as well as the 90 day reporting online process....

[jacko45k]

Funny, this is nothing more than a way to push the Immigration data entry process for visitors onto the visitors themselves, instead of the Immigration officers. Note that you don't get approval for a visa on arrival, you've just entered the information into the database so that the Immigration officials don't have to do it when you get there. Might save some time, I suppose - though if the online VOA application process works as well as the 90 day reporting online process....

That is the point I suppose, to save time at immigration.

Useful for countries where they are sufficiently educated to have a grasp of English and access to the internet.

Not sure it helps wrt the Chinese visitors and the huge influx being predicted, they always look clueless.

[Gutterboy]

OMG has anyone actually watched that video? It is apparently designed for retarded children rather than adults.

But at least the information is as clear as ever: "Print the form when you're finished. Or don't print the form, that's also ok"

On a separate note, what's the deal with "the 5Ss of immigration" in that complicated logo at the end of the video. Has anyone else noticed that at the airport? "Sagacity?" Find me one Thai that knows what sagacity means. (Find me one farang for that matter).

Thanks Thailand for supplying my daily dose of humour!

[carter1882]

Sagacity? Come on that is easy....it's like Bangkok, the city with the most tales.

[phantomfiddler]

Why oh why do they keep changing things I thought you get a fee 30 days on arrival without filling in ANY forms !

[AlQaholic]

I watched the video. The part in the end when the happy tourist goes away in a Taxi....one part is missing.....the part where the happy tourist get ripped off by the taxi driver and thrown out of the car and stranded on the motorway.

[Pib]

Why oh why do they keep changing things I thought you get a fee 30 days on arrival without filling in ANY forms !

Read the opening post again to include opening the weblink...you'll figure it out.

[pinkpanther99]

I guess this is good news if you are from one of the 19 countries.

It's also more favouritism towards the Chinese.

Interesting Saudi Arabia is on the list given the political history between the two.

For the rest of us, maybe this new online application will also be available for other visa types in the future.

90 day reporting online, now this, looks like immigration is finally moving online.

[dageurreotype]

Some of the nationalities entitled to apply for the visa include China, Kazakhstan, Romania and Saudi Arabia.

Christ, scraping the barrel or wot ..

[momtaz]

Good news, ...

I hope the 90 days report will be done online too,

will save time for many people indeed,

[oncearugge]

Good news, ...

I hope the 90 days report will be done online too,

will save time for many people indeed,

Where have you been hiding?

90 day online reports can be made!

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/812263-online-90-day-reporting-available-from-april-1st/

[casualbiker]

Good news, ...

I hope the 90 days report will be done online too,

will save time for many people indeed,

Where have you been hiding?

90 day online reports can be made!

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/812263-online-90-day-reporting-available-from-april-1st/

Have you Actually succeeded in doing an online report?

[Monkeyrobot]

Why oh why do they keep changing things I thought you get a fee 30 days on arrival without filling in ANY forms !

It's for the camel jockeys not all countries get 30 days.

[NanLaew]

Good news, ...

I hope the 90 days report will be done online too,

will save time for many people indeed,

Where have you been hiding?

90 day online reports can be made!

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/812263-online-90-day-reporting-available-from-april-1st/

Have you Actually succeeded in doing an online report?

Many have successfully done it but then they don't post and whine about it That's reserved for those that have computer literacy issues and dodgy internet and it only takes one report of a failed online extension attempt for the usual suspects to grind their Thai-hating axes.

[Suradit69]

Why oh why do they keep changing things I thought you get a fee 30 days on arrival without filling in ANY forms !

You're confusing a visa exempt entry with a visa on arrival. Not the same thing.

OMG has anyone actually watched that video? It is apparently designed for retarded children rather than adults.

But at least the information is as clear as ever: "Print the form when you're finished. Or don't print the form, that's also ok"

On a separate note, what's the deal with "the 5Ss of immigration" in that complicated logo at the end of the video. Has anyone else noticed that at the airport? "Sagacity?" Find me one Thai that knows what sagacity means. (Find me one farang for that matter).

Thanks Thailand for supplying my daily dose of humour!

"It is apparently designed for retarded children rather than adults."

And yet it appears to have flown over the heads of some people. Maybe they've read some of the threads on TV and figured that was the way to go.

Edited October 13, 2015 by Suradit69

[louse1953]

I watched the video. The part in the end when the happy tourist goes away in a Taxi....one part is missing.....the part where the happy tourist get ripped off by the taxi driver and thrown out of the car and stranded on the motorway.

Back to the bar for you Alco,the DT's have set in.

[flyingdoc]

Clarity akin to a thick foggy day!

[Arandora]

On the application page it says that the passport needs only be valid for more than 30 days. Unless IATA officially updates its database for airlines that are supposed to check eligibility for passengers travelling on passports from the 19 VOA countries and which is 6 months for all at the moment I see trouble ahead. Left hand and right hand not talking to each other - again!

[englishoak]

So the passenger ends up doing most of the immigrations job and fills everything in online, then no doubt immigration will fill or check it all with said passengers passport anyway as carefully and slowly as they always do

Fail to see how theres any benefit to doing immigrations job, especially when they are just going to waste just as much time as normal checking everything is filled out correctly before issuing a visa anyway.

Its for the 15 day stayers too which goes to show how much importance they give it. If it were really such a great and fantastic benefit to visitors how come first class and business dosnt have this express super efficient process or the nations who all get 30 days and spend a lot more tourist dollar accordingly ? Usually any added benefit goes there first..

Thai immigration has to be one of the most miserable sour puss faced in the region, never smile, never say much which ive always thought Ironic and very telling in the supposed LOS, probably because theres not a lot of extra tea money to be had or fleecing to be done, poor babies...bet they are all on the transfer waiting list for customs and import duty dept.

Edited October 13, 2015 by englishoak

[phuketrichard]

Good news, ...

I hope the 90 days report will be done online too,

will save time for many people indeed,

Where have you been hiding?

90 day online reports can be made!

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/812263-online-90-day-reporting-available-from-april-1st/

Have you Actually succeeded in doing an online report?

Yes,did mine 4 days ago here in PHuket,

[Jaggg88]

Why oh why do they keep changing things I thought you get a fee 30 days on arrival without filling in ANY forms !

Read the opening post again to include opening the weblink...you'll figure it out.

Oh its for countries that don't qualify for 30 day visa exempt - why didn't they state that in post? Poor journalism - shouldn't require the reader to have to work it out.

[Pib]

Good news, ...

I hope the 90 days report will be done online too,

will save time for many people indeed,

Where have you been hiding?

90 day online reports can be made!

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/812263-online-90-day-reporting-available-from-april-1st/

Have you Actually succeeded in doing an online report?

Many have successfully done it but then they don't post and whine about it That's reserved for those that have computer literacy issues and dodgy internet and it only takes one report of a failed online extension attempt for the usual suspects to grind their Thai-hating axes.

Well, actually it don't work for anyone arriving "before 2013" and not exiting/reentering the country since then.

Immigration's 90 day "database" for online reporting started from that 2013 point....not to be confused with their separate master database which shows entries before and after 2013...and not to be confused when they started the online 90 day reporting in 2015.

So in order to do a 90 day report online a person needs to have entered in 2013 or later in order to be in their online reporting database. Pre-2013 entry folks must still do it by mail or in person. This is talked about numerous times in the thread on discussing 90 day online reporting. Basically a pre-2013 entry person needs to exit and reenter in order to get into the 90 day online reporting database.

A pre-2013 entry person can still go to the online 90 day reporting website, enter Page 1 of the required info, but when hitting continue with the additional steps a window pops up saying to visit your local immigration office. The message pops up because a person is not in the 90 day online reporting database.

Edited October 14, 2015 by Pib