Can I extend my stay in Thailand by doing a border run to Burma with a VOA?

@Jim ******

- seeing as this group is of no use to you, (you do your own research and Immigration talk to you), maybe it would be better if we parted ways. Goodbye.

It is simple to read accurate rules on immigration Webb site when it comes down to tourists. Certainly another category can be very complex. No advice from others can ever be totally accurate when it comes to Thai embassies in the immediately are as the rules are often applied differently at different locations. I've called immigration by phone more than once and always been answered as well as being factually informed.

Hi Jim James, there are many classifications of stamps within Immigration which a foreigner is not versed in. Similarly websites offering advice which may be contradicting or false. Immigration website is only partially in English while calls are hardly picked up. Even adhering to written procedures are useless with an officer in bad mood. So Thai Visa Advice is set up to help all visiting foreigners in any way possible.

Really!

@Lloyd *******

. Stupid comment. Yes I have, but only after putting in my own effort, he has not, and appears not to listen either. He's going to get another exemption, has extended one beforehand, so simple logic should tell him, the same will apply,after being told he can do it twice overland. How did he know,he could fly in and be admitted at all.imop,him and many just like him,use the exempt entry to save money. Thailand is too easy on " tourists." With the exception of Malaysia, every other country charges and issues a visa for 30 day stays.

Let us hope

@Jim ******

never needs advice ;-)

He just goes on and on. Pretty simple to find out what visa he hasn't got,how many land ones he's allowed etc. He could even call immigration. The guy puts in no effort like so many.

@J**

, the visa, extension, visa exempt etc process here is more than a little convoluted. :O Plus the inter-web is littered with bad and wrong information.

You can hardly fault someone for comin' on a group titled Thai Visa Advice and asking for thai visa advice can you? ;)

Richard, You wouldn't even get stamped OUT of thailand at that border IF the immigration officers knew you couldn't come right back in on a visa exempt entry. They just tell you "Cannot leave".

@Ric****

, no it's nothing about the money.

At that border all you're doing is buying a 'day pass' to the burmese city Tachiliek.

IF you don't hold a valid "visa" to get into burma they won't let you stamp out at that crossing if you already have 2 visa exempt entries by a land border this year.

@Ric****

, they just wouldn't let you stamp out of that border. You can't get "into" burma from there on just that $10USD day pass you buy.

@Richard ********

plus what it costs to get to the thai consulate in Vientiane and back. You turn in your passport in the morning and pick it up the next afternoon.

Richard, the thai consulate in Vientiane Lao is probably the easiest for you.

You could get a single entry tourist visa from them for 1000baht.

When you enter thailand you'd get stamped in for 60 days and you could extend that by 30 more days at the immigration office for 1900baht.

@Ric****

, umm, you can't BUY a visa from the border-bounce ;)

That's a "visa-run" where you go to a thai consulate in another country and buy a visa. Entering on a valid visa by air or land doesn't count.

@Ric****

, land border crossings only. If you fly in (in theory) there is no limit to visa exempt entries.

right (y)