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Can my son get a new 45-day entry stamp by flying to Laos from Thailand?

STV Visa Visa Renewal Border Run Thailand Immigration Entry Stamp Vientiane Airport Visa Exempt Entry

Oct 24, 2022

4 years ago

Tod *********

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Cheron Gonzalez

for my son entered Bangkok in STV visa initially issued by embassy - went immigration said cannot be renewed as no longer avail and was informed to do border crossing to get the 45 days coming back in. 

Am I correct in understanding that if we take a flight to eg: Laos stay a day or two and then fly back to Bangkok he just gets a 45 day visa stamped into passport again at customs?. 

I am aware of the land borders and agents (read up on it) and just trying to way up best options here. It will be his 1st time doing this. 

Also which airport’s in Laos gives the least probs asking for stuff. TIA

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Cheron Gonzalez is inquiring whether her son can obtain a new 45-day entry stamp by flying to Laos after initially entering Thailand on an STV visa, which cannot be renewed. She is considering the best options for this border run and is particularly interested in which airport in Laos would have the least complications.

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Tod *********

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IF you are looking for a "service provider" to go to the border with post in a group related to where you live in Thailand. You'll get recommendations

If their stamp runs out Oct 29th that's the day they need to stamp out by. Staying AFTER that stamp runs out gets an overstay fine of 500 baht a day.

4 years ago

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thanks a million for such valuable info 🙏🏻

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Tod *********

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I didn't see you had a pending post, and I posted this already

4 years ago

Tod *********

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There's no need to fly to Lao or anywhere to get off the 90 day STV entry stamp and get a new 45 day visa exempt entry (it's NOT a visa it's just a free entry stamp), You can do it by land OR air and there's no amount of time you have to be out of the country.

There's no need to fly to Lao (where most people need to BUY a visa to get in when they land) you can fly to Malaysia, Singapore, anywhere you can get in and out of without a visa. Check flights, he could fly out one morning and fly right back in that afternoon.

IF you wanna go to Lao then Vientiane is where you fly in to. They won't have any issue comin' back in as they don't have an extensive stay history (many covid extensions)

4 years ago

Tod *********

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This isn't a "how to get into Lao" group 😮

so google entry requirements Lao if you're going to fly there and see what comes up,

this is a THAI visa advice group 😛

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