I heard from a friend the Thai goverment are going to change the law regarding its tourist visa & 90 day stay.Is it true you will no longer be able to do a visa run via Cambodia,Lao etc,but have to return to the country where your Tourist visa was first issuied? ie = the Uk?
2006-09-13 08:18:11 · 2 answers · asked by Luv2travel 1 in Travel ➔ Other - Destinations
Read this:
PHUKET: -- Phuket’s Immigration Chief has confirmed that Thailand will crack down on foreigners working illegally in the country by ending its policy of issuing an unlimited number of consecutive “visas on arrival” – tourist visas that allow the holder to stay a maximum of 15 or 30 days.
The crackdown is intended to stop foreigners – typically bar owners and other small businessmen without work permits – from using the visas to stay in the country indefinitely while working illegally.
Pol Col Bunphot Kongkrachan, Acting Superintendent of Phuket Immigration Office, told the Gazette that, from October 1, onward Immigration checkpoints around the country will limit to three the number of consecutive visas on arrival they will grant a single visitor.
After the third consecutive visa on arrival has expired, the passport holder must leave the country and wait 90 days before being allowed back into Thailand on the same type of visa.
The move effectively limits the length of stay for those entering the country using this visa class to 45 or 90 days.
The 41 countries whose citizens qualify for visas on arrival include Thailand’s top sources of tourists, including almost all Western European countries, the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore and many more.
Col Bunphot said that all Immigration chiefs nationwide have been ordered to attend a meeting at Immigration headquarters on September 15, during which the new stricter regulations will be explained in detail.
“I will make a more detailed statement about the new situation within a week of returning from the meeting,” he said.
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Again the Thais show that they don't like foreigners working in Thailand.
2006-09-13 20:40:32 · answer #1 · answered by try.myanmar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When ive been, my visa has only lasted for 30 days anyway i didnt know there was a 90 day visa.
I also think its good theyve stopped the visa runs there so dangerous, lots of my family live in thailand in phuket and my uncles friend died on a visa run to cambodia.
2006-09-13 08:44:18 · answer #2 · answered by RE789 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋