Can I enter Thailand using a different passport than the one with my DTV visa?

@Bob *********

but enters and departs Thailand with the USA 🇺🇸 passport.

@Vasily **************

Quite clearly, when you leave the country by AIR you can do a switch. I am assuming wherever you are going to next will be by flight. If so, then you can do a switch. Makes zero sense to enter Thailand on visa exempt now.

Only people like me who drive to neighboring countries with their own cars would need to use the same passport for entering the next country as all stamps need to go in the same passport when you cross from one country to the next.

@James *******

Many times I've entered Thailand where they don't see my visa and incorrectly enter me on visa exempt. I check my stamp and tell them to correct it. It even happens when I put my visa number down on the TM6 form. I wonder whether the new digital form will keep better track.

I therefore assume they can't see the visa on their system unless they notice it in your passport or you hand them the paper in the case of e-visas. I understand extensions of stay are visible in the immigration system because they're issued inside the country.

@Vasily **************

if you’ve been approved for a DTV no you can’t what don’t you understand about passports being linked you can’t fool them you are not qualified to enter on anything other than the visa you have been approved for you can leave and enter a thousand times in 5 years if you like are you trying to save a month or too ??you can leave and use you other passport to do what you want but your not going to use it to enter Thailand other than activating your DTV

@Paul ******

team #3passport here

Anonymous participant 222

the point was not that they won't know there's two passports linked to the same person, the point was your claim that they will let you in on the DTV one only.

@Rogerio *****

You can't enter on a Tourist exemption when holding a visa. It's also in the database. The biometrics will link both passports to one single profile. The agent already knows you're a DTV holder when scanning your passport or opening your profile.

Anonymous participant 222 so you're claiming now that you can't enter on a tourist exemption when holding (another passport) with a visa. Is this something you've experienced/others have reported, or ..?

I have two passports with exemptions, one was flagged as 'too many times so get a proper visa next time' so of course now I use that one, never tried to use the exempt one since then.

Point is, not a very common situation to use an exempt when you have a valid visa to begin with, to test that claim out.

what if, you know- your passport with the visa is damaged, or being held by another embassy as you wait for a visa stamp on it, and you have to use your exempt one?

are you saying they would not let you into the country?

not trying to be combative, but I actually do work in the (US) tourist visa space, and you would not believe the claims people share in groups that are stated as "facts" when it's wild guesses, and often incorrect.