Thread: Sending your passport home to get a new visa?

Forget all that.. You want to take a chance on the Lao mail system with your passport? Even a top courier wouldn't be worth the risk of loosing it for me.. Think of how much fun that would be?? Especially if it turned up weeks later somewhere else and was reported found after you reported it lost in Laos with new visa's stamped into it from your home country though you haven't been there for ages..

That's my kind of luck... Not me! no way!

I'd think you be well fked if you lost your passport in the mail.

Originally Posted by thegent

Stating that you held 2 passports would achieve nothing since they would simply ask for the second

It's my understanding that you are allowed 2 or more passports in the UK if you travel a lot and require the others to be sent for visas.

You are not actually permitted to travel with 2 passports and are certainly not supposed to exit one country on a passport and enter another country with the other.

Originally Posted by thegent

Stating that you held 2 passports would achieve nothing since they would simply ask for the second, a reasonable request particularly if you were actually resident in the UK and had signed an application to that effect.

But why would you state that you had 2 passports?

Originally Posted by Tao

You are not actually permitted to travel with 2 passports

Are you saying that it is illegal to carry an extra passport across a border ?

^My kids always travel with 2 passports, Thai and British.

Originally Posted by Tao

You are not actually permitted to travel with 2 passports and are certainly not supposed to exit one country on a passport and enter another country with the other.

Incorrect.

As Nick said, my kids also travel with two passports.

You must enter and leave one country on the same passport, but once you are clear of that you may switch passports in mid air.

That also applies to land crossings, however, knowing the "do not understand, cannot compute" of many officials in this part of the world, you may encounter some problems doing so. It would not however be illegal.

Originally Posted by NickA

^My kids always travel with 2 passports, Thai and British.

That's dual citizenship. I'm talking about two active passports issued from the same country.

For some reason I got redded by madjbs for my previous comment, bad advice he says. He obviously doesn't have 2 passports. Twat.

A bit touchy aren't you? My company sends my passports away regularly to get visas. That's a fact, that's not continually handing out bad advice. It's not illegal and it's why the UK Identity and Passport service allow me to have two passports.

You'll need to tell us why you are so experienced in these matters and so quick to hand out the reds for something that you obviously know little about.

Originally Posted by Tao

You are not actually permitted to travel with 2 passports and are certainly not supposed to exit one country on a passport and enter another country with the other.

Are you drunk or something? You said this before, which is clearly wrong and nothing in connection to what you just wrote now.

The reason I gave you a red was because I recall reading rubbish from you a number of times before. Incorrect info is the enemy of all forums and I hate it.

Clearly i'm wrong if you say i am. So there's no point in arguing is there?

You are wrong because people do it all the time. Dual national or not, plus one of the reasons for issuing 2 passports is precisely to do that.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by thegent

Stating that you held 2 passports would achieve nothing since they would simply ask for the second, a reasonable request particularly if you were actually resident in the UK and had signed an application to that effect.

But why would you state that you had 2 passports?

To account for the missing embarkation stamp.

Originally Posted by thegent

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by thegent

Stating that you held 2 passports would achieve nothing since they would simply ask for the second, a reasonable request particularly if you were actually resident in the UK and had signed an application to that effect.

But why would you state that you had 2 passports?

To account for the missing embarkation stamp.

The point is, that it's nothing to do with the immigration department of one country what the immigration department of another country does.

If you were to walk out of Cambodia at Poi Pet without being stamped out it is of no business to the Thai immigration guys. For sure, they might question it, but it's got sod all to do with them. Their job is to ensure you have valid travel document for Thailand and Thailand only.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

If you were to walk out of Cambodia at Poi Pet without being stamped out it is of no business to the Thai immigration guys.

Well right or wrong they do make it their business.
If you are doing a border run, you have to stamp in/out of another country.
You cannot just stamp out/in of Thailand.

You cannot just stamp out/in of Thailand.

Indeed. If:

Their job is to ensure you have valid travel document for Thailand and Thailand only.

People doing runs to poipet would exit thailand, not go into Cambo, save on the cambo visa, and just turn around to re-enter Thailand. 'I exited Thailand here *pointing* to your 2 minute old exit stamp, and now I wanna come back in'.

Yeah, might work.

Originally Posted by Thetyim

If you are doing a border run, you have to stamp in/out of another country. You cannot just stamp out/in of Thailand.

I know that is the practice, but I can't see how they can legally insist upon enforcing someone else's immigration rules. What if they decided to adopt the practice of civilised countries and not bother stamping passports any more? It'd give Thai immigration a bit of a headache.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I know that is the practice, but I can't see how they can legally insist upon enforcing someone else's immigration rules.

Agreed.
It would be interesting to know how they would handle it if you stamped out of Thailand and were then refused entry to Laos/Cambodia because you have no visa and try to re-enter Thailand.

Aren't there some lawyer folk round here?

Get one of 'em to phone up the DoI and request info on why, as you've already left Thailand and have the exit stamp to prove it, you cannot re-enter thailand with out having used a cambodian visa.

We all know the answer, but interesting to hear them try and make face saving excuses.

no it doesn't

Of course it doesn't, hence I why I put in a smile.

To legally exit a country you must enter another.
When I go to the UK I dont get a stamp.
So what if at the airport I checked out and then had a meal, relaxed and the next day( 11.30 pm-12.30am) just walked back through immigration again?
Where is my boarding card you might ask?

Where is my boarding card you might ask?

In your pocket? Wallet? underpants?

Please fill us in.

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

So what if at the airport I checked out and then had a meal, relaxed and the next day( 11.30 pm-12.30am) just walked back through immigration again?

Correct me if I am wrong but once you have passed through immigration you will be in airside depatures.
To check back in you need to be in airside arrivals .

You would need to sneak across from one secure area to another.