Hello does anyone have experience of leaving Thailand with volunteer visa and going to Cambodia to apply for tourist visa. Did you come back to Thailand without issues ?
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Many users shared their experiences and concerns about leaving Thailand on a volunteer visa and re-entering after visiting Cambodia for a tourist visa. It was noted that genuine volunteer visas typically do not pose issues when leaving, while under-the-table or bogus volunteer visas could lead to severe problems at immigration. Some suggested avoiding leaving Thailand if one wishes to stay longer, and some argued that obtaining a new passport could mitigate potential entry issues.
Maxim ***********
If it's a volunteer visa from an agent, you cannot leave Thailand on your current volunteer visa. You will get denied entry while attempting to come back. If your visa was done without an agent, you can leave and come back without any problem.
If you want to stay in Thailand longer I wouldn't leave. Ask.
Shea *******
So there is something the OP can take away, i left and came back because I knew my visa was being switched from a tourist to a non B anyways...BUT, if you have been here and want to come back, I strongly suggest getting the STV. This is for people who want to stay long term and not work.
You must get the visa that matches your intention.
Because if you were here during covid, you have already been here a long time, so for you to return is basically saying you want to be here a long time....though...you could argue that during covid there was nothing to see, I mean even after two years and the school being locked down I have seen almost nothing of Thailand.
So some really great things came out of this like, I found out my GF wants to marry me. She was on the phone talking with them when the agent suggested to me marriage but said you probably don't want to, and I said yes but she does t want to, and then my GF said wait I want too. So I proposed on the phone at the airport, not the most romantic but we cried for 5 hours after.
I'm going back to Canada, something I have put off for 8 years. Not sure if there is anything still there for me. I really have been working in China all this time, I was on vacation from China when I came here, not Canada.
My GF will try to get over her fear of flying and get the shot so she can come visit me.
And most important when I come back, if I come back, I'm I allowed to come back? I'll legally be able to do business in Thailand once the BOI company finishes applying for my non-B.
the STV is almost impossible to get off without leaving Thailand.
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Benjamin ******
I heard there are a LOT of issues with people who have under-the-table volunteer visas, leaving Thailand, and returning for a tourist visa. I've seen people get rejected on entry, or get grilled hard at passport control.
IF you want to be safe, I highly recommend leaving Thailand, getting a new passport, and returning on the new passport.
I have read that old and new passports would end up "linked" in their computer system and would not provide one with a "clean slate" as one might hope, but actually look suspicious. However, their ability to track multiple passports may be correct or not, but I wouldnt do it.