2month Tourist Visa After Having Had 2 Voas

[Aaron2]

Although it might be posted somewhere, I cant find the thread, so please dont kill me if this has been answered many times:

I'm from Germany and currently in Laos. Before I got here I stayed two months in Thailand separated by a Visarun to Myanmar. I understand that I can only get one more Visa on Arrival for now, but can I still get a 2month tourist visa, if I apply for it in Vientiane? I want to be back in Thailand before NYE.

With kind regards, Aaron

[lopburi3]

It is up to the Consulate but believe they will issue you a tourist visa without any problem - and would highly advise doing it now and keeping your entry without visa option open - but they may ask you not to return for another visa any time soon.

[bkkbaz]

It is up to the Consulate but believe they will issue you a tourist visa without any problem - and would highly advise doing it now and keeping your entry without visa option open - but they may ask you not to return for another visa any time soon.

I saw a Brit's passport the other day with a red stamp in it for having two tourist visas within a twelve month period. I don't remember the precise wording, but it did suggest that he may not be issued a third until that twelve-month window expired.

That said, I just got a 60+30 tourist visa from Savvanakhet (my second tourist visa in twelve months) and didn't get a red stamp.

We really don't know the rules yet, but I'd imagine paid-for tourist visas will continue to be a safer method than the free-of-charge visa exemption stamps.

[smx1313]

I posted this once before, just thought I'd give it another run.

60 day visa + 30 day ext + (3) 30 day stamps =180 days (6 months)

Repete cycle = 1 year.

Repete as necessary and enjoy the fresh new freedom.

[Roger Dodger]

I posted this once before, just thought I'd give it another run.

60 day visa + 30 day ext + (3) 30 day stamps =180 days (6 months)

Repete cycle = 1 year.

Repete as necessary and enjoy the fresh new freedom.

Decent folks will always be welcome in the Land of Smile.

[TerryLH]

'I posted this many times before, just thought I'd give it another run. ...'

"Decent folks will always be welcome in the Land of Smile."

Generally called Land of Smiles, except maybe on some buses.

Edited December 21, 2006 by TerryLH

[Aaron2]

Cheers guys, I will just have to try it.

[rocky]

I posted this once before, just thought I'd give it another run.

60 day visa + 30 day ext + (3) 30 day stamps =180 days (6 months)

Repete cycle = 1 year.

Repete as necessary and enjoy the fresh new freedom.

Decent folks will always be welcome in the Land of Smile.

This is incorrect; the thais have not allowed provisions for many people under the age of 50.

Not so long ago people staying in hospital ill then released would over stay there visa, at that time there were no provisions for that, and some people were fined for over staying even though they had been ill and unable to leave hospital.

Only recently the Thai immigration has opened shop within hospitals.

Same Same, No provisions, badly thought out policies,

[preahko]

I posted this once before, just thought I'd give it another run.

60 day visa + 30 day ext + (3) 30 day stamps =180 days (6 months)

Repete cycle = 1 year.

Repete as necessary and enjoy the fresh new freedom.

In theory it should work, and yes, that is what immigration officials themselves have told me, but they were in Suan Phlu, and the people working at the Thai embassies in the region are--in their embassies, far from Bangkok, and in many ways those embassies are little kingdoms, little fiefdoms of power for somebody. So it remains to be seen--and only time will tell--if it's really going to be possible to do the above without things like embassies stamping "no more visas at this location" in your passport when they give you a visa. I've heard of this happening in KL, Singapore, Phnom Penh. And I have heard of people being flat out refused tourist visas in Phnom Penh and Yangon.

Now here is the first-hand part of my post: last week, on Dec. 22, I got a 60-day tourist visa in KL. They were a little suspicious about me (staff is almost all Malay) and my very fat passport (pages added twice) full of regional visas and entry/exit stamps, but they did give me the visa, and no red stamp in my passport either. I've been in Thailand four years (on the 30-day stay plan); I've tried to apply for a non-immigrant visa before due to my work for a US university which requires I be here nine months of the year, but they wouldn't give it to me.

I should also note that at the time of applying for the visa in KL last week, I had 2 30-day entry stamps since Oct. 1 when the new rules started.

preahko