Thread: tourist visa

Penang is easy enough. Air Asia or another budget carrier could get there soon enough. The airfare may even cost less than the petrol plus the visa costs to enter Cambodia or Laos. If it were me I'd lean towards Penang for its convenience. YMMV

You could get a 30 day Vise exempt stamp andextend that by a further 30 days for 1900 Baht

Originally Posted by Fluke

You could get a 30 day Vise exempt stamp andextend that by a further 30 days for 1900 Baht

did not know that was possible.

Am getting a 7 day extension when my permission to say expires so I dont have to get out on the 31st..... if I did 30 day exempt and then extend that would it raise red flags ?

Originally Posted by Fondles

did not know that was possible.

Am getting a 7 day extension when my permission to say expires so I dont have to get out on the 31st..... if I did 30 day exempt and then extend that would it raise red flags ?

I dont think that it will be a seven day extension , they give you seven days to leave the Country, if they refuse to give you an extension .
You can get two Visa exempt stamps by land border crossings twice per calendar year , no red flags or anything

Easiest place to get a tourist visa in Vientiane , other places require things like ticket out the Country or hotel bookings

Originally Posted by happynz

Penang is easy enough. Air Asia or another budget carrier could get there soon enough. The airfare may even cost less than the petrol plus the visa costs to enter Cambodia or Laos. If it were me I'd lean towards Penang for its convenience. YMMV

Penang looks to be wanting an outbound airticket which is a bit yuck

Originally Posted by Fluke

I dont think that it will be a seven day extension , they give you seven days to leave the Country, if they refuse to give you an extension .
You can get two Visa exempt stamps by land border crossings twice per calendar year , no red flags or anything

According to the people at onestop in BKK where my work permit and permission to stay extensions are done I can.

Originally Posted by Fluke

Easiest place to get a tourist visa in Vientiane , other places require things like ticket out the Country or hotel bookings

Cool, thanks. yeah outbound ticket is yuck and I aint staying in a hotel.

Originally Posted by Fondles

Penang looks to be wanting an outbound airticket which is a bit yuck



According to the people at onestop in BKK where my work permit and permission to stay extensions are done I can.



Cool, thanks. yeah outbound ticket is yuck and I aint staying in a hotel.

You can take along a Condo rental agreement and that will suffice .
Although immigration will give you seven days extra , that is given to people who get their extension application refused , seven days to leave the country

The outward ticket is a pain, but I believe you only need a ticket....it can be bus....or ferry. And you could throw it away when plans change.

The other forum (whose name shall not be uttered here, but whose initials are TV,) has ads for instant seat conformation for planes, buses and ferries throughout South East Asia. Their website is :

https://12go.asia/en

You could enquire on that unmentionable forum (as you are in extremity, I'm sure we will forgive you for doing so) as to what the current situation is regarding acceptance of these tickets by visa-issuing authorities.

They may ask for a flight out in Vientiane as well.

That will be an ongoing issue, a flight ticket out is a requirement for a Philippine visa as well - possibly your next stop as I remember.

Originally Posted by stroller

They may ask for a flight out in Vientiane as well.

That will be an ongoing issue, a flight ticket out is a requirement for a Philippine visa as well - possibly your next stop as I remember.

They will not ask for a ticket out the Country at Vientiane , although they may do at Savanakhet

Originally Posted by Fondles

Penang looks to be wanting an outbound airticket which is a bit yuck

The easy way around that is to book a flight on Thai airways site and use pay at counter, that gives you a confirmation email then you have 24 hours to pay of which you of course dont and it is simply cancelled.

You can do it on your phone stood in the queue
Just show them that email.

Ive done it a couple of times now

^theyve stopped that now. Youve gotta go in person

Originally Posted by Fluke

You can take along a Condo rental agreement and that will suffice .
Although immigration will give you seven days extra , that is given to people who get their extension application refused , seven days to leave the country

been doing some digging.

My current extension (based on employment) expires on the 31st but the person cancelling on the 20th can ask to have it post dated and as it was issued at onestop (due to BOI company) they will automatically give me a 7 day extension (for free).

Originally Posted by Fluke

You could get a 30 day Vise exempt stamp andextend that by a further 30 days for 1900 Baht

Are you married Fondles?

If so the extension will be for 60 days, if extended for the reason of staying with your wife. Will need to bring marriage cert, tabien bahn, and wife.

Originally Posted by stroller

They may ask for a flight out in Vientiane as well.

That will be an ongoing issue, a flight ticket out is a requirement for a Philippine visa as well - possibly your next stop as I remember.

Yeah Philipines is ok as I would initially be going there for a job interview so will have a ticket out.

Originally Posted by Luigi

Are you married Fondles?

If so the extension will be for 60 days, if extended for the reason of staying with your wife. Will need to bring marriage cert, tabien bahn, and wife.

Not married, fuck that !!

Your best bet mate would just be to fly out on Dec 31st somewhere for the day then come back and get an extension from Chonburi immigration. Go in the morning fill in form and pick up passport afternoon if i remember right.

UTP fly to KL for just over 2k if you book early

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Your best bet mate would just be to fly out on Dec 31st somewhere for the day then come back and get an extension from Chonburi immigration. Go in the morning fill in form and pick up passport afternoon if i remember right.

UTP fly to KL for just over 2k if you book early

1st and 2nd are public holidays, would prefer to be here for new years.

But doing a fly in and out............. might as well do a border bounce on the 31st and grab the 30 day exempt entry.

You can go earlier, you know, youve got a couple of weeks to play with.
December 31st will be hextic on Thai roads with em all heading home for the new year in celebratory mood

Edit...Hectic, i will leave the hex now though

Originally Posted by Dillinger

You can go earlier, you know, youve got a couple of weeks to play with.
December 31st will be hextic on Thai roads with em all heading home for the new year in celebratory mood

Edit...Hectic, i will leave the hex now though

Yeah my permission to stay extension is multi entry and will be cancelled on the 20th but post dated to the 31st so if I flew in and out prior to then I would be stamped in on the extension......or am I missing something ?

Originally Posted by Fondles

Not married, fuck that !!

Good work.

30 day VE, then go to immigration for a 30 day extension would work.

Or take a break, few days in a neighboring country and Tourist Visa. I'd do the second one, fuck going to Immigration.

If you do a land border run for a VE, come back before the end of the year and you will be able to do two next year

Originally Posted by Fluke

If you do a land border run for a VE, come back before the end of the year and you will be able to do two next year

Not interested in doing border bounce for the sake of staying here.

Okay, there's some good and not so good advice on here.

Because you work for a BOI company and use Cham Churi Square's One Stop Service center, they will post date the cancelation of your extension for free (up to 21 days).

Just so you know the 7 day extension is actually an "application for extension of stay denied" 7 day stamp to get outta the country and it's sold to people for 1900baht.

Now posters did accurately point out your options;

1 - Go to a thai consulate in another country and BUY a single entry tourist visa,

The thai consulate in Vientiane is the softest touch thai consulate in S/E Asia. At this time it DOES NOT require any of the 3-proof-ofz;

• onward travel within 60 days
• 20K baht in a bank account
• confirmed hotel booking

2 - You could fly out and back in to get a 30 day visa exempt entry stamp

3 - You could just do a border-bounce where you go to the border, stamp out of thailand, in&out of another country and right back into thailand to get a visa exempt entry stamp

The tourist visa entry or a 30 day visa exempt entry stamp could be extended by 30 more days at the immigration office for 1900baht if you needed to.

Good Luck..