Does Exiting Thailand for a Visa at a Foreign Embassy Count as a Land Crossing?

Visa Rules Tourist Visa Thailand Immigration

Dec 7, 2019

5 years ago

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If I exit the kingdom to go to an embassy at Vietnam to get a different visa (60 days), does this count as one of the 2 land crossings I get per calendar year?

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Exiting Thailand to obtain a different visa at an embassy, such as in Vietnam, does not count as one of the two permitted land crossings in a calendar year. The crossings refer specifically to entries into Thailand without a visa, while obtaining a visa abroad is a separate process.

Tod *********

NO, you are entitled to TWO 30 day visa exempt entries by land in a calendar year (Jan 1 - Dec 31)

That has NOTHING at all to do with any land crossings you make entering thailand while you have a valid VISA in your passport.

5 years ago

James ********

@Shachar *****

...I will await reply from

@Amornrat *********

on your plan to stay in Thailand until April 2020...then return to Israel and obtain the METV for added 6-9 months in Thailand.

5 years ago

Dawn **************************

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thank you everyone. happy to have this group.

5 years ago

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Dawn **************************

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im clarifying. im an israeli citizen with an israeli passport so i cant enter muslim countries (Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia...). i entered thailand via air on August 15th 2019. since then i have done 2 exemption extentions in Samui immigration and 1 border bounce to Myanmar. Im going to do my 2nd border bounce on Tuesday (hopefully the ferry wont get cancelld..

5 years ago

Dawn **************************

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@Benjamin *****

but doesnt the METV start as soon as you get it? if say i get it on May 1st and im only returning June, i "lose" that month dont i?

5 years ago

Dawn **************************

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my plan is to stay until April, then i fly back to israel, hopefully get a 6 months visa there and come back to koh tao at June. if i dont get a tourist visa before that, ill have to do my first land crossing on February, and then another on October, then ill be forced to leave by air just for December...

5 years ago

Benjamin ******

Laos isn't a muslim country, and I believe you are free to enter there.

The Visa On Arrival application for Laos is at

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, and Israel is on the drop down list.

5 years ago

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Benjamin ******

Just to make sure, what is your nationality?

5 years ago

Dawn **************************

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israeli

5 years ago

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Dawn **************************

James ********

With you living in Thailand already for 4 months in 2019...since August 15...

You may have difficulty in obtaining a Tourist Visa in several Thai Consulates.

I would NOT suggest you go to Savannakhet Laos, Hanoi or HoChiMinhCity Vietnam.

Possibly OK...Vientianne..

Kuala Lumpur...Penang.

But lets see what Amornrat suggests.

A few weeks ago you said:

(as an Israeli citizen..).

"I entered by air. Then extended 30 in samui. Then extended 30 in myanmar. Then extended 30 in samui again. Next tine myanmar again i guess. What is vientiane and savannakhet?"

5 years ago

James ********

@Shachar *****

I corrected my reply. But you now want a Tourist Visa...and plan to stay until next April.

You could have obtained a Multiple Entry Tourist Visa in Israel before you came to Thailand. That with planning would have given you 6-9 months in Thailand.

5 years ago

Dawn **************************

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since August 15th, i have done 2 Samui extentions and 1 border bounce to Myanmar. but i plan to stay at least until April.

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Dawn **************************

Robert *******

no, the limit you refer to is two entries into Thailand without a visa. Not exits to obtain a visa.

5 years ago

Dawn **************************

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