Do I need a re-entry permit if I travel to Laos with a 60-day tourist visa before it expires?

Re entry needed

It's kind of pointless to get a reentry permit for a current stamp only good till November 11th. It doesn't extend your stay whatsoever. Just exit, go visit Laos, and return on a 30-day Visa exempt entry stamp.

Single entry visa?

You dont have to leave, you can go to Thai immigration and get a 30 day extension for 1900 baht, make sure you have a tm30 and the tm30 will determine which immigration you need to apply

you can no problem ..you are welcome

Single entry visa?

Ask immigration at the Border before you go to Laos, they will let you know I think you can get a reentry stamp there if needed

Here a short lesson on correct wording:

*** a VISA is a permit to ENTER a country.

*** a STAY PERMIT is a permit which allows you to stay in a country.

*** a VISA is not a STAY PERMIT and vice versa.

*** When you enter Thailand on a single-entry visa, you get stamped in for the visa-type related length of an ADMITTED STAY.

The visa itself expires or becomes invalid for further use.

*** upon entering Thailand, you will receive a STAY PERMIT stamp in your passport.

For the duration of this stay permit, you can buy a RE-ENTRY PERMIT.

This re-entry permit will keep your original stay permit alive and active, should you exit Thailand before your original stay permit expires.

If you look at the actual visa it says ‘single entry’.

Visa expires on departure, but you can get 30 days on arrival back in Thailand

Barry Sproule . . .you don't have a 60-days tourist visa anymore, it already expired when you entered. You can buy a re-entry permit for the 60-days stay permit you got stamped when you entered on a 60-days Tourist Visa by September 12. Unless of course if you entered visa-exempt and you erroneously call it "60-days tourist visa", then you are wrong, because you cannot get a re-entry permit on a visa-exempt stay permit

Do you have a visa? Or a visa exemption? Needles to say, they're NOT the same.

If you REALLY entered on a 60-days single entry Tourist Visa, this visa is already expired, you got a 60-days stay permit, which you can keep alive and active if you buy a single re-entry permit for 1000 THB at the Immigration office. Please be aware that you cannot buy a re-entry permit at a land border

Not sure you can get a re entry permit on a 60 day exempt.

You arrive September 12th and stamped in on a 60 day exempt which would take you to Nov 11th. It changed to 30 day exempt on 15th September.

So it is not a visa but an exempt stay.

So if you leave and come back you will get a new 30 day exempt.

Unless of course you bought the SETV. "Single" entry tourist visa which is about $40

That's what I never understand get a tourist visa 60 days fine, but leaving after two weeks.

Depending on your travel history and entries into Thailand on visa exempt entries, it may be wise to get a re-entry permit to ensure that you can re-enter without a problem. They may also question you when you leave if you can be sure that you can come back in again or they may stop you going. Your existing visa is canceled once you depart.

If you leave without a re-entry permit your visa will terminate on exit