Visa Questions

[Slick]

Ok, so I got a new job, and I will be in Thailand more now. My previous job was on a rotation 120 days work and 16 days off (In Iraq and MEGA bullshit) and I never worried about visas or anything cause I was never in the kingdom enough.

Now I'm on a rotation of 60 on and 30 off and I just want to double-check that I understand the Visa Rules/Laws.

Here are the dates that are stamped into my passport. I'm American btw...

Admitted: 3 August 2007 for 30 days
Departed: 16 August 2007

Admitted: 18 November 2007 for 30 days
Departed: 8 December 2007

Admitted: 6 March 2008 for 30 days
Departed: 26 March 2008

Admitted: 1 July 2008 for 30 days
Departed: 17 July 2008

Admitted: 6 November 2008 for 30 days
Departed: 3 December 2008

Anyway I had to get a new Passport in early 2007 cause mine got stolen. I lost all the dates, but its along the same schedule.

So, I can do 30 days at a time with the Visa on Arrival 30 day stamp, but I have to leave the country and come back in to get another 30 days. I can do this 3 times in a row, then I have to be out of the country for 90 days. Correct?

So if I just work for 60 days, then come in on the 30 day stamp, Im good right? With the Current Rules I can do this indefinately, correct? And in the future, if I can get on a 30/30 rotation, this will be ok also, and I dont really need to worry about visas (if the laws dont change )

Im understanding this correctly?

[Thetyim]

So, I can do 30 days at a time with the Visa on Arrival 30 day stamp,

I think you might be using the wrong terms
VOA is only 15 days
Do you mean TVE ?
What nationality are you ?

[blackgang]

From what I understand now it is no more 30 days visa on arrival, but is now 15 days VOA.
You might be better off to get a tourist visa at the embassy where you will be and then come.

He is American Thets..

[Thetyim]

From what I understand now it is no more 30 days visa on arrival,

There never was a 30 day VOA it has always been 15 days
TVE was 30 days but is now 30 day at airports and 15 day at land crossings.

What is VIA ?

[billdo2000]

I think if you arrive by air at Swampy (or otherwise), you get 30 days but all land boarder crossings get 15 days. That' what I "heard" anyway.

[Thetyim]

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True but only if he carries a passport on the TVE list
Until he tells us what nationality he is the question cannot be answered

[billdo2000]

I've been over here for three years, dealing with the BS and all I have to say is: Congradulations. There isn't much call for my line of work overseas so I'm kind of stuck here but you have given me hope.

Good luck with the new job.

[klongmaster]

I can do this 3 times in a row, then I have to be out of the country for 90 days. Correct?

One of the side benefits of the new visa regulations is that this part has now been deleted so you can come as often as you like on 30 days as long as you enter by air...land or sea entries only get 15 days...

[Thetyim]

Whoops, I missed the bit where you said American, Sorry

Yes you are TVE and will get 30 days at the airport and no restrictions on repeat entries.

You do not get a Visa on Arrival just Permission to Stay stamp

[klongmaster]

All there in the OP Tetters...

I'm American btw...

What nationality are you ?

Until he tells us what nationality he is the question cannot be answered

[Slick]

From what I understand now it is no more 30 days visa on arrival, but is now 15 days VOA.
You might be better off to get a tourist visa at the embassy where you will be and then come.

He is American Thets..

I thought is was 30 days if you fly in by plane and 15 at land border crossings...

I dont know, but thats what I got from ThaiVisa's spam e-mail a week or 2 ago....

From what I understand now it is no more 30 days visa on arrival,

There never was a 30 day VOA it has always been 15 days
TVE was 30 days but is now 30 day at airports and 15 day at land crossings.

What is VIA ?

So thats the new rule now right? 30 By plane and 15 by land border?

Wtf is TVE again? Thai Visa Exempt?

I think if you arrive by air at Swampy (or otherwise), you get 30 days but all land boarder crossings get 15 days. That' what I "heard" anyway.

Same with me... Thats what I heard also, but I wanna make sure I got it Fully...

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True but only if he carries a passport on the TVE list
Until he tells us what nationality he is the question cannot be answered

lol

I've been over here for three years, dealing with the BS and all I have to say is: Congradulations. There isn't much call for my line of work overseas so I'm kind of stuck here but you have given me hope.

Good luck with the new job.

Thanks bro, Im In dubai now taking the classes and safety stuff. Should start working in a few days... I got lucky as fuck on this job and Im soo greatful...

I can do this 3 times in a row, then I have to be out of the country for 90 days. Correct?

One of the side benefits of the new visa regulations is that this part has now been deleted so you can come as often as you like on 30 days as long as you enter by air...land or sea entries only get 15 days...

Sooooo, I can come in and out as much as I want, so long as its by air? Thats 100% Concrete?

Whoops, I missed the bit where you said American, Sorry

Yes you are TVE and will get 30 days at the airport and no restrictions on repeat entries.

You do not get a Visa on Arrival just Permission to Stay stamp

Sorry about the Terminology... So yeah, unlimited 30 day "Permission to Stay" stamp, so long as its by air, right?

All there in the OP Tetters...

I'm American btw...

What nationality are you ?

Until he tells us what nationality he is the question cannot be answered

Bingo!

[Thetyim]

Wtf is TVE again? Thai Visa Exempt?

Nearly
Tourist Visa Exempt
Means you get stamped in for 30/15 days and don't need a visa

Visa on Arrival
Means you buy a visa at the airport (airside) and then get stamped in for 15 days

[billdo2000]

I'm on the 120/14 day rotation of 12 hours per day. Just to be able to move to 60/30 days would be like semi-retirement.

[Slick]

Wtf is TVE again? Thai Visa Exempt?

Nearly
Tourist Visa Exempt
Means you get stamped in for 30/15 days and don't need a visa

Visa on Arrival
Means you buy a visa at the airport (airside) and then get stamped in for 15 days

Thetyim,

So Im good then. Just go like im going, work 60 days and fly into thailand for 30 and in the meantime have an eye on the rules as they change?

[Thetyim]

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Yes you will get 30 days every time you arrive via an airport

[Slick]

^
Yes you will get 30 days every time you arrive via an airport

Sweet! Thanks bro!!