Thread: Best consulate for multi-entry tourist visa?

I need to cancel a work-permit and get out of the country within 24 hours; according to Thai law.

The plan is to get a flight to the consulate who is least biased in the way of giving multi-enttry tourist visas.

In my experience, Penang were strict, Laos was OK..

Anybody recently acquired a multi-entry tourist visa? An if so, where is the best place to get one>

Thanks in advance

Savannakhet.

Gangzhaou, Colombo. Basically anywhere where no one with a brain would want to visit.

Any chance Phnom Phen would be up there as a possible place to secure one, with relative ease that is?

Originally Posted by Bruno

Any chance Phnom Phen would be up there as a possible place to secure one, with relative ease that is?

Probably the most anti-westerner embassy in the region.

^worse than HK?

Originally Posted by hazz

worse than HK?

I don't know.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

You go to the labor dept and cancel the work permit. You have 7 days,

While this maybe true, I read that you have 24 hours as the visa is cancelled along with the WP?

7 days after the WP and visa is cancelled is something in which you would have to pay for.

I vaguely remember this is correct, but that you can go and get an extension 7 days at immigration for 1900B. Persoanlly I would recommend that you do the visa run as quickly as possible as its april can be a very expensive time to fly anywhere

most US consulates will issue u a triple entry ( the most you can get for a tourist visa)
for a double head to laos
Phnom Penh no way

For my last two work permits that were cancelled there was no visa cancelation and I was able to stay until the date printed in my passport. (Well over 6 months)

As for getting a new non-b for a new work permit, I had problems twice last year in Ho Chi Minh and once in Vientiene. All three times for missing paper work. In the end I was sent to KL with exactly the same paper work and had no issues.

^ Maybe you just didn't get caught on your exit.

As I understand it, the visa the WP was issued on, is invalidated by not having the job anymore, either by quitting or being fired.

Originally Posted by Hypatia

the WP was issued on, is invalidated by not having the job anymore, either by quitting or being fired.

Depends why the extension was issued.
If it was issued on the grounds of you working then it will be cancelled.

If you have an extension based on marriage and a WP then when you finish working the WP will be cancelled but the extension is still valid.

so no-one really knows which is the best place?

as for tourist visas, what is the longest visa they issue? my daughter wants to come out and stay for a few months

Are they doing unlimited 14 day tourist visas now if doing a foot crossing?

Originally Posted by Necron99

Savannakhet.

They are issuing 1 year multiple entry non-Imm visas at the moment.

Savannakhet, so how would one best travel there from Bangkok?

closest airport?

^ airport in savannakhet, or a long bus ride.

Nasa Vagas Casino do a good all in Savanaket visa service. I'll look for a link.

But how does it get cancelled?

I've never needed to be present at a work permit cancellation, neither has my passport. And the extension stamp in the passport is a regular stamp with an exit date on it.

As far as I know your employer is supposed to notify Immigration your work permit has been cancelled.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Necron99

Savannakhet.

They are issuing 1 year multiple entry non-Imm visas at the moment.

as is penang as long as u have a current wp and all the correct paperwork

Originally Posted by Phuketrichard

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Necron99

Savannakhet.

They are issuing 1 year multiple entry non-Imm visas at the moment.

as is penang as long as u have a current wp and all the correct paperwork

Do Penang also issue 1 year visas for non-imm Os?

I received a double entry tourist visa in Laos in 2011.