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How can Australian passport holders extend their stay in Thailand without a visa run?
Thai VisaVisa ExemptionVisa ExtensionAustralian Passport HoldersImmigration AdviceTravel in Thailand
Sep 21, 2023
3 years ago
Sab *****
ORIGINAL POSTERHelp please, we are Australian passport holders and travelling since beginning of this year. I don't know how but it completely slipped my mind to go to the Thai Embassy in Hanoi where we have been staying the last few weeks and apply for a Thai visa. 🙄😬 So I know as Australians we are visa exempt for the first 30 days but how do we get our visa time covered after that? We will be staying 28 days in Bangkok, then a month in Chiang Mai before staying another 28 days in Bangkok? Preferably not having to do a visa run. Any help appreciated. We will be leaving Hanoi for Bangkok this Sunday. Thank you!
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Australian passport holders can enter Thailand visa-exempt for 30 days. To extend their stay, they can apply for a 30-day extension at a local immigration office for a fee of 1900 baht. After that, they can leave Thailand and re-enter for another 30 days, ideally by air. It is important to ensure that they have onward flight arrangements to avoid issues with airlines regarding boarding.
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Rob **********
Some Homework is good for you
Rob ********
You have most of the answers here buddy , visa except , then extend for 30 days , trip to Laos , fly Bangkok , sorted but beware , on visa you have to show return flights within 30 days , , hardly checked by immigration but your airline might not let you board , just bear this in mind for all entry into Thailand
Sab *****
ORIGINAL POSTER@Rob *******
thanks, yes we always have onward going ( not necessarily return) flights in our travel arrangements to the next destination.Reply to
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Ron *******
The only reason you now need residency in Vietnam is if you want to apply for a Non O multiple entry.
Apparently they are now only issuing a single entry visas without holding residency
Apparently they are now only issuing a single entry visas without holding residency
Ian *********
I did one in HCMC a few years ago when the company screwed up. From memory, it only took a day or two (or maybe was same day, can’t quite remember). Someone posted that you had to be VN resident. That certainly wasn’t true when I did it. I’d suggest that you head to the embassy this morning with ALL your docs and try them. If not, as someone else said, enter TH on visa exempt and then just extend in-country
John *******
As Stuart mention being Aussie use up 30 day visa exemption get 30 day extension 1900baht each than leave thailand by flight or land border crossing and return for another 30 day visa exempt Chokh di
Kev *********
@John ******
If you come back into Thailand by road it used to be a 14day pass. Only if you returned by air from outside Thailand you get a 30day stay. Have the rules changed?Brandon ************
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it changed 8 years agoJohn *******
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not sure about the 14 pass your talking about if entry is by land border I don't recall that 14 day rule not that I have entered thailand to many times by land border only 3 in 8 years but by air about 25 visits for 30 day stay or longer I know a new bilateral agreement was signed with 60 or so countries for visa exempt in 2015 or 2016 you can only enter thailand by land border 2 times in a calender year visa exempt but there nothing written or official in thai law or regulations about how many times you can entered thailand by air visa exempt so we keep entering until the IO infront of you on the day says enough is enough we must remember entry to Thailand is never a guarantee even with a visa Chokh diReply to
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Stuart *********
You do not need residency in Vietnam to apply for a tourist visa for Thailand. No idea where Av got that idea from.
Gianpaolo ******
@Stuart ********
yes! Need residency in Vietnam to aplly for multientry tourist visa single entry no need!Stuart *********
@Gianpaolo *****
Yes an METV can only be obtained in your home country or country of legal residence. The OP didn’t mention the METV.Reply to
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Sab *****
ORIGINAL POSTER@Stuart ********
I thought so. I actually think you were so kind back then to give ne that I idea back then which unfortunately slipped my doozy mind over the month. :(Reply to
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Barry ***********
I’m in Hua Hin , yesterday we applied for a 30 day extension on our visa , a couple of hours and baht 1900 each. That gives you 60 days , not sure if you can do it again or it’s a visa run.
Stuart *********
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You can only extend once per entry.Reply to
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Av **********
U need residency in Vietnam to apply from within Veitnam, so u couldn't have gotten it anyway. Just go an extended it or take a trip out and have fun
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@Av *********
really? I got a new tourist visa from Hanoi beginning of June. Things are getting tough out hereAv **********
@Duncan ******
thus was 3 weeks agoDuncan *******
@Av *********
if they changed the rules, it must have been very recently because there are various threads in this group of people applying at Hanoi. - including this guy who got one two weeks ago. **************************************************************************
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since, I went there and they said no without residency so we flew to laosKool *******
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yes, but only if you have the required bank statements, that the embassy in Vietnam asks for.Andrew ***********
@Av *********
incorrect.Duncan *******
@Av *********
since when? Be it it has been a few years since I've applied for a visa in Hanoi but there is no such residence restriction listed on their website.********************************************************************************************************************************
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ORIGINAL POSTER@Av *********
yes might be an option. Maybe we will check out Laos or Cambodia after the 60 days. But apparently it would have been possible to get the 60 day visa in Hanoi.Reply to
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Stuart *********
As an Australian you can get a visa exempt entry for 30 days and can extend that once at a local immigration office for another 30 days. After that you’d have to bounce out and back in for another 30 day entry.
Sab *****
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thank you.Edna *******
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the fee is 1,900 tb plus current passport size picture. They will take there if needed.Reply to
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