Tourist Visa (i Seek 30 Days)...

[vent-it-los]

I'm currently residing in Thailand on a Single Entry Non-Immigrant Visa 'O',

A? Can I change from a Visa 'O' to a 30 day Tourist Visa at the Aranyprathet Border?

Given one can change from a tourist visa to a Single Entry 'O', assume the opposite applies.

VENT-IT-LOS.

[PREM-R]

Why would you want to change from a 90 day visa to a 30 day visa? Do you mean that your non'O' is about to expire and you want to get a 30 day "without visa" stamp on your return to Thailand which you then intend to 'upgrade' to a single entry non "O" at immigration?

[vent-it-los]

I'm currently residing in Thailand on a Single Entry Non-Immigrant Visa 'O',

A? Can I change from a Visa 'O' to a 30 day Tourist Visa at the Aranyprathet Border?

Given one can change from a tourist visa to a Single Entry 'O', assume the opposite applies.

VENT-IT-LOS.

[meadish_sweetball]

Please try to specify exactly what you need, and perhaps also why you need it.

- What type of Non-Immigrant O visa do you have? 90 days, single entry? One year multi entry?

- Is your present visa valid when you cross the border, or will it expire?

Remember there is no "30 day tourist visa". There is, however, a 30-day permission to stay-stamp you can get at a border if you exit Thailand and come back in.

If your Non-Immigrant O visa is about to expire, then the answer to your question is 'yes - you can get the 30 day border stamp when you return to Thailand'.

If your Non-Immigrant O is not about to expire, why would you want to change it?

(The tourist visa is 60 days and can only be obtained at a Thai embassy or consulate outside of Thailand. (It is also extendable by 30 days if you apply for an extension at an Immigration office inside Thailand, giving you altogether 90 days)).

[ovenman]

If you are asking whether you can go to the border and obtain a new thirty-day entry stamp when your current entry stamp is from a non-immigrant 'O' visa, then the answer is yes. Note: this process is not changing a visa, it is simply leaving Thailand and obtaining a new entry stamp upon re-entry.

Edited October 11, 2006 by ovenman

[vent-it-los]

Can we get a definitive YES without the embellishments and self-gratification?

Will Thai Immigration question me at the border when I re-enter to get the stamp

or can I assume that it is easily a done thing to change from the visa I presently

have in my passport to an entry stamp? Sorry for the confusion experienced.

VENT-IT-LOS.

[ovenman]

Can we get a definitive YES without the embellishments and self-gratification?

Will Thai Immigration question me at the border when I re-enter to get the stamp

No problem, immigrations won't give it a second thought.

To reiterate a very important point at the risk of self-gratifying embellishment, you are not changing your visa by doing this. Changing your visa from one type to another is done at an immigrations office within Thailand and is dictated by a change in circumstances, e.g. you were here as a tourist, got married, and now want a non-'O' visa.

Edited October 11, 2006 by ovenman

[vent-it-los]

Please try to specify exactly what you need, and perhaps also why you need it.

- What type of Non-Immigrant O visa do you have? 90 days, single entry? One year multi entry?

- Is your present visa valid when you cross the border, or will it expire?

Remember there is no "30 day tourist visa". There is, however, a 30-day permission to stay-stamp you can get at a border if you exit Thailand and come back in.

If your Non-Immigrant O visa is about to expire, then the answer to your question is 'yes - you can get the 30 day border stamp when you return to Thailand'.

If your Non-Immigrant O is not about to expire, why would you want to change it?

(The tourist visa is 60 days and can only be obtained at a Thai embassy or consulate outside of Thailand. (It is also extendable by 30 days if you apply for an extension at an Immigration office inside Thailand, giving you altogether 90 days)).

I'm currently residing in Thailand on a Single Entry Non-Immigrant Visa 'O',

I may wan't to change my visa to an entry stamp but at this stage i'm happy to quiz and pick the brains of posters on this board. You will appreciate that many people say one thing and another person an entiriely different scenario. Thanx for the help anyways.

My Visa Stamp expires on the 20th of November. So if I go to Cambodia then I will try to get issued another Single Entry Stamp or I may opt for the facile option and plump for the 30 day tourist as i'm in two minds at present. Until the rules sort themselves out I remain ignorant and cautious.

I'm in doubt of whether to proceed on such a visa which may one day lead to me depositing 10 thousand sterling into a country a little less, a lot less short of stable, if you follow me board poster?

VENT-IT-LOS.

[vent-it-los]

I'm currently residing in Thailand on a Single Entry Non-Immigrant Visa 'O',

A? Can I change from a Visa 'O' to a 30 day Tourist Stamp at the Aranyprathet Border?

B? Will I be questioned at the Thai Immigration Border as to why I wish to demote my

original visa to an entry-stamp? If you know the answer then please participate.

VENT-IT-LOS.

[Firefan]

He,he - vent-it-los you are still not getting it. People have however already tried to explain it to you best they can so I will not try again, except say that you are fine getting back in no matter what.

Cheers!

[ovenman]

If you know the answer then please participate.

Do you realize that you have now asked the same question four times in the course of the first nine posts on this thread? The question has been answered for you more then once. How many times do you need to be told that what you propose won't be a problem? Would you be somehow more satisfied if somebody said that under no circumstances will you be allowed back in to Thailand and you will have to spend the rest of your life in Poipet???

[Axel]

I'm currently residing in Thailand on a Single Entry Non-Immigrant Visa 'O',

You are on a single - entry, so once you leave your visa is finished.

A? Can I change from a Visa 'O' to a 30 day Tourist Stamp at the Aranyprathet Border?

You do not CHANGE anything, you leave and have no more visa, you come back and get a 30-days visa exemption stamp (assuming you are from one of the 41 countries that get this.)

B? Will I be questioned at the Thai Immigration Border as to why I wish to demote my

original visa to an entry-stamp? If you know the answer then please participate.

I see no reason why Thai immigration should question this. You do not demote but arrive without a valid visa and get a 30-days visa exemption stamp.

VENT-IT-LOS.

Edited October 11, 2006 by Axel

[vent-it-los]

He,he - vent-it-los you are still not getting it. People have however already tried to explain it to you best they can so I will not try again, except say that you are fine getting back in no matter what.

Cheers!

I'm reading half-half at the expense of f-a-c-e, but to be honest I need to see it in fine print. Forget the rhetoric, quizzing and deviation from the original question, what's that my friend? Clarity is what I seek, in short 'yes' or 'no'. You have answered by saying 'I will get back in no matter what', yet you fail to answer in a professional manner, or give in to pity me with your wit, sorry? I say at what expense? I did not want this Visa 'O' in the first place and don't appreciate answers in a round about manner. If you follow my drift, otherwise you don't. Why should I give in to second best when I can get better than this input? Something to dwell on fellow poster? I

[vent-it-los]

Thanx Axel. This was too easy given the quality of the question. You answered in good faith.

VENT-IT-LOS.

[Firefan]

He,he. No hard feelings ventitlos.

It is just that Axel simply repeated (admittedly in a crystal clear language) what a row of good posters had already tried to inform you.

Glad you are onboard now! CHeers!