How can I obtain a tourist visa for Thailand if I can't leave my passport in port while working on a ship?

@Benj****

you have to specifically ask for it and have a good justification but most countries will do this. Certainly my home country (Ireland) and the US will issue a second passport if you can justify you need it, and having to frequently leave your passport for visa applications can be a justification.

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@Benjamin *****

Anericans can have two passports. Depends on countries visited or logistics.

@Sc***

yes I did call the Embassy of Thailand in The Hague or this is allowed. As my "old" passport did have around 11 months validity left. Now I not need to renew my passport for 10 years. It made my life a little easier in Thailand.

@Leo *********************

Depending on your interpretation you’re using one passport, your current and valid passport. You’re carrying around your old passport, not valid for travel, because it has your current visa in it. So you need both to enter Thailand using that visa but no one in another country cares about your old expired passport.

Also have two from the same country you just need a letter from your employer explaining why you require a second passport when you apply.

But I can confirm they are linked in the immigration system, and for those of us who work overseas and holiday in Thailand in our time off it's becoming increasingly difficult to enter as a tourist.

Benjamin that is a different situation. BUT it can, in The Netherlands anyhow, be also. I traveled from Amsterdam to Thailand with my multi Non-O visa still valid in my old passport.only the personal data page made invalled. So my Visa still valid. As long NOT punch the valid visapage. Other whise the visa will be invaled. But using the new passport to travel into Thailand. And getting my 90 allowed days stamped in my new passport. So ussing 2 passports. But that is another still as what I mean with 2 passports. These 2 passports will, most likely, have the same validity dates.

@Leo *********************

Good to know. I didn't know that. As someone who's not a sailor, and who's an American, the US Embassy wants my old passport, where they punch a hole in it making it invalid. I can only have one passport at a time.

@Benj****

yes same country indeed. Basicly every business man, or lady 😊, can issue a second passport. Exactly for this kind of issues you need to travel abroad already but next week you need a visa for another country. So then one passport stays at a embassy. And on the other passport you travel in the mean time. Also a second passport can be important when travel to conflicting country's. 😉

Interesting. I didn't know a sailor can get more then one passport. It's the same country, I suppose?