Bad Experiences

[h90]

I came to Austria (my homecountry) and hoped to get a 3 month tourist visa valid for 1 year. But they gave me just 2 month (can get one more in Bangkok) but it can only be used once so not 3+3+3+3 months...

Is that normal?

Alternative would have been single entry marriage visa.

Maybe wrong embassy, any other embassy better?

[tropo]

I came to Austria (my homecountry) and hoped to get a 3 month tourist visa valid for 1 year. But they gave me just 2 month (can get one more in Bangkok) but it can only be used once so not 3+3+3+3 months...

Is that normal?

Alternative would have been single entry marriage visa.

Maybe wrong embassy, any other embassy better?

Would that be a single-entry tourist visa that they gave you?

That would indeed be valid for only 90 days. When you enter, they give you a 60 day stamp and you can renew that once for a further 30 days at the Immigration Office in Thailand...giving you a total stay of 90 days. Thereafter you can still do 3 consecutive visa runs for a further 90 days.

It seems that your Embassy are being a little strict with you. I've heard guys are easily getting 3-entry tourist visas over in England.

[Thaiquila]

I came to Austria (my homecountry) and hoped to get a 3 month tourist visa valid for 1 year. But they gave me just 2 month (can get one more in Bangkok) but it can only be used once so not 3+3+3+3 months...

Is that normal?

Alternative would have been single entry marriage visa.

Maybe wrong embassy, any other embassy better?

Sounds totally normal.

A tourist visa is good for a 60 day stay in Thailand and is valid to begin to be used for 90 days from date of issue.

You probably should have asked for a double or triple entry tourist visa, or maybe you did, but asking for a single entry 3 month tourist visa good to be used for one year is basically NOT POSSIBLE.

[rcm]

I came to Austria (my homecountry) and hoped to get a 3 month tourist visa valid for 1 year. But they gave me just 2 month (can get one more in Bangkok) but it can only be used once so not 3+3+3+3 months...

Is that normal?

Alternative would have been single entry marriage visa.

Maybe wrong embassy, any other embassy better?

Had good experience with the Thai Consulate in Salzburg....however , the Visa i was doing there was a Type O non immigrant based on marriage ,not sure what your Visa was. As you described it it was supposed to be a multi Entry visa...but then you wrote Tourist Visa and i am not really sure if ther is a one year valid multi Entry Tourist Visa. Is it perhaps a mistype? Or can you tell us which type of Visa you applied ? was it perhaps a Non Immigrant Type O?

rcm

[h90]

I came to Austria (my homecountry) and hoped to get a 3 month tourist visa valid for 1 year. But they gave me just 2 month (can get one more in Bangkok) but it can only be used once so not 3+3+3+3 months...

Is that normal?

Alternative would have been single entry marriage visa.

Maybe wrong embassy, any other embassy better?

Would that be a single-entry tourist visa that they gave you?

That would indeed be valid for only 90 days. When you enter, they give you a 60 day stamp and you can renew that once for a further 30 days at the Immigration Office in Thailand...giving you a total stay of 90 days. Thereafter you can still do 3 consecutive visa runs for a further 90 days.

It seems that your Embassy are being a little strict with you. I've heard guys are easily getting 3-entry tourist visas over in England.

I don´t have it in my hands yet, but they told me the visa is 3-entry but valid just 3 month and not 1 year so I can not do the visa runs. Maybe it was just a language problem but it sounded in very good german that it is a 2 month visa valid 3 month.......

[tropo]

I don´t have it in my hands yet, but they told me the visa is 3-entry but valid just 3 month and not 1 year so I can not do the visa runs. Maybe it was just a language problem but it sounded in very good german that it is a 2 month visa valid 3 month.......

There must have been a serious communication/language problem. If you did indeed obtain a 3-entry tourist visa, it sould be valid for exactly 6 months from the date you applied. This would give you a potential 9 months in Thailand.

The 9 months would be organised in the following way:

1. Enter with a 60-day stamp.

2. Extend by 30-days at the Immigration Office at the end of your 60-days (cost = 1,900 baht)

3. Do a quick visa hop over a land border to get another 60-day stamp.

4. Extend by 30-days again at the Immigration Office.

5. Do another visa hop on the last day of your visa validity period to get another 60-day stamp.

6. One more 30-day extension at the Immigration Office.

Total approximately 9 months.

Your visa should be valid for 6 months from the date of issue, so it depends when you get to Thailand as to exactly how long you can stay. For example if you arrive in Thailand a month after it was issued, of course your total maximum possible stay will be a month less.

[Thaiquila]

Some embassies/consulates do this. It happened to me. Issue multi-entry tourist visas but specify that ALL entries must be used within the SAME 90 days. It can work with a double entry, but absurd with a triple entry.

If you are trying to figure out if your tourist visa entries are like this, have a look at the visa. If there is only one expiry date shown (in your case it would be 90 days from visa issuance), I think that applies to all the entries. I had a double entry tourist visa like this and confirmed this with an officer at the airport.

It is true many embassies/consulates operate in a world unto themselves.

Edited October 9, 2006 by Thaiquila

[h90]

I don´t have it in my hands yet, but they told me the visa is 3-entry but valid just 3 month and not 1 year so I can not do the visa runs. Maybe it was just a language problem but it sounded in very good german that it is a 2 month visa valid 3 month.......

There must have been a serious communication/language problem. If you did indeed obtain a 3-entry tourist visa, it sould be valid for exactly 6 months from the date you applied. This would give you a potential 9 months in Thailand.

The 9 months would be organised in the following way:

1. Enter with a 60-day stamp.

2. Extend by 30-days at the Immigration Office at the end of your 60-days (cost = 1,900 baht)

3. Do a quick visa hop over a land border to get another 60-day stamp.

4. Extend by 30-days again at the Immigration Office.

5. Do another visa hop on the last day of your visa validity period to get another 60-day stamp.

6. One more 30-day extension at the Immigration Office.

Total approximately 9 months.

Your visa should be valid for 6 months from the date of issue, so it depends when you get to Thailand as to exactly how long you can stay. For example if you arrive in Thailand a month after it was issued, of course your total maximum possible stay will be a month less.

It seems you are right, enter before 5.Jan. But I got it explained total different, maybe they just don`t know......

They told me it is just 3 month and within these 3 months I can enter 3 times..... and they don`t know why I would enter 3 times in 3 month, that that does not make sense because I would get anyway 1 month on the border......