Hello everybody, I need some help with my current situation.
I did 2 visa (tourist stamp) run from Chiang Mai to Mae Sai this year, in the infinite wait for my Student VISA paperwork. The limit being 2 VISA runs (on ground) per year, I then went to Vietnam and came back. It worked, they let me go in.
My student VISA paperwork is still not ready, my stamp is finished on the 30th this month.
Plot TWIST: In the meantime, when I did my last extension, I got a new passport, since i didn't have anymore pages in my old one. So they transferred my stamp extension in the new passport.
Question: Do you think I can do another VISA run at Mae Sai or any other borders since it's a new passport with a stamp on arrival coming from the airport, or all that doesn't change anything, I am f**ked and need to get out of country and come back by plane again?
Here's a picture of the stamp in the new passport in question.
TLDR : Answer Summary
The user is inquiring about the possibility of making another visa run at Mae Sai after already completing two visa runs for tourist stamps within the same year. They have recently acquired a new passport which contains a transfer of their visa stamp from the old passport. Community responses indicate that having a new passport does not reset the visa-exempt entry limit for the calendar year, which remains at two land border entries. The general consensus is that the user cannot make additional visa runs by land without consequence and may need to leave the country by air instead.
