I applied via the London embassy on Friday morning, on Friday afternoon they asked me for my flight tickets back to Thailand, the e-ticket also had my flight details for my exit from Thailand last week. Now they've asked for copies of my boarding pass out of Thailand and the leaving immigration stamp, but I went through the E-gates! I have the boarding pass but no stamp, how else can I prove this? As I have a British passport there's no stamp into the UK either
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The user is facing an issue with their visa application where the Thai embassy is requesting proof of their exit from Thailand. They used E-gates during their departure, which resulted in no physical exit stamp. The user possesses their boarding pass but needs advice on how to demonstrate their compliance with exit requirements due to the lack of an exit stamp.
I have emailed them explaining the situation with exact details and attachments, if they don't reply by 4pm tomorrow I guess I'll just have to upload my boarding passes, stamps to show I did it by the book whilst there and got the visa exemption extension etc and add a note on the pdf explaining I went through the E-gates. Andddd pray
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That's really useful to know, thanks! Ive just completed the form but looks like it would be a long process because it's told me after submitting it that you could be asked for an interview and have to manually email a copy of your passport to them etc., even the Thai visa site itself seems better put togetherðŸ˜
Unfortunately, i don't know how quickly it takes to process a Subject Access Request (SAR) with the UK Border Force (within the UK Home Office), but make a Request for your own "Entry and Exit Travel History to and from the UK over the past 5 years", specifically, make a request for your Latest Entry into the UK
One can also request Entry and Exit History with Thai Immigration, but it is a paper form and manually would be submitted in person to Thai Immigration (in Thailand)
they want proof that you’re actually in the UK. When i applied from Vietnam they had me send 5 selfies where i was holding my passport and a paper showing the current date, in front of various Vietnam landmarks. Try doing the same and appending any other documentation you have into a SINGLE PDF and upload to their website (it only allows one file per section)
might take a selfie holding a paper with the date on , next to my home address road name sign🫡 I'm a few hours away from London to take pics outside Big Ben
Try sending the email to the Local Embassy, the Thai Business and Also the other Visa office in Thailand with reference to your application, I did that
Normally you don't need the stamp, so no need to not use egate.
Only when you plan to do things where you might have to prove you did exit it can be better to have a stamp.
For reentering Thailand it does not matter because your exit is registered in the system
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Was there no non gate options? It seems like you would have wanted to get a stamp, knowing you need to show proof you are out of the country. This was even discussed in our Jan post.
since my first visit to Thailand (August 2024). Some days they instruct people to use the e-gates, some days don't. But I think the plan is to use the e-gates only in the near future. That's why in my passport I have some exit stamps (but more entry stamps).
???? Could've should've would've. Makes no difference. What's done is done and if the embassy are being that picky and bothered OP can literally mention the e-gates and they'll have a record if they really want to go through the effort and check ffs