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Is there a limit to the number of tourist visas issued to an individual in a single year?

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Is there a limit to the amount of tourist visas you can be issued in one year? For instance if you went at the start of the year would it be a problem applying for another later in the same year?
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There is generally no official limit to the number of tourist (TR) visas that an individual can be issued in a year. However, travelers should be mindful of the 6-month maximum cumulative stay within a year as a tourist, though enforcement may vary. Visa-exempt entries may be limited to about 2 per calendar year, especially if entering through land borders. The current travel conditions due to COVID-19 complicate this further, as options for obtaining new tourist visas and traveling in and out of the country may be restricted.
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Astrid **********
Astrid **********
Your question is a bit irrelevant in the current situation.

Since where would you like to apply for a new tourist visa?

Return back to your home country?

In Thailand you can only get extensions at the moment. And with this you can stretch it quite far, as long as they are giving the "allowance of stay due to covid" 60 day extensions

For a new tourist visa you need to get out of the country, and currently it is not as the older days that you hop to Malaysia to get a new tourist visa.

Malaysia is closed, Thailand is not easy to get in .. and if you would get in you have to quarantine on both sides atm, or embassies are not even giving the visas out.
Terary **********
Terary **********
Visa.. No limit.. Visit exempt is another thing.
Benjamin ******
Benjamin ******
@Terary *********
There is an implied limit at the embassies; usually about 3 or 4 before they give you a stamp saying "final visa"
Joe ***********
Joe ***********
Land borders are closed - not likely to open soon.. Air fly in has a lot of hoops to jump through. Where do to plan to fly to to get more TRs?
Ant *******
Ant *******
OP
im not planning until late next year, just thinking ahead. im not talking about a border run im asking about returning a few months after i have gone home.
Joe ***********
Joe ***********
@Ant ******
Hopefully the tourist visa situation will lighten up as time passes.
Paul *******
Paul *******
I am slightly confused when I was going regularly to Thailand purely as a tourist immigration told me it was not acceptable to use a visa exempt because of how many times I came.

I then got a OA non Imm visa in UK it’s now expired.

I plan to return in October if I go to a tourist visa is it likely because of the number of stamps in my passport I would get a problem.

My maximum stay Oct -Dec back Uk for Christmas January- early April.

Thanks for any advice.
Charles ********
Charles ********
@Paul ******
visa exempt has a limit of 2x per 6 months I believe, but not always enforced.
Steve *******
Steve *******
@Charles *******
Nope. The only restrictions on visa exempt entries is 2 per calender year when entering via land borders.
Ian *****
Ian *****
@Charles *******
in pre covid times I used to fly in on visa exempt every other weekend. Never an issue and once I asked and was told as long as you fly in and out each time (and not a bounce where you just come straight back) unlimited entries. But that is precovid....what the future will be is unclear
Steve *******
Steve *******
No limit to TR visas issued per year.
Gordon ********
Gordon ********
Slightly related question - is there always TR visas? I mean pre-pandemic I always came visa exempt and didn’t even consider the need for a TR. I guess what I’m getting at is can we still come 2+1 month when things normalise?
Charles ********
Charles ********
@Gordon *******
visa exempt is still an option and is 15 days less total at the moment. 45 plus 30 extension, but will probably go back to 30 to 30 in Sept. TR is 60 plus 30.
Charles ********
Charles ********
I believe the law limits you to 6 months a year in Thailand as a tourist, but in practice it does not seemed to be enforcement.

2 TR visas a year, no problem at all.
Steve *******
Steve *******
Ant *******
Ant *******
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@Charles *******
that's what I thought. Thanks.
Bob **********
Bob **********
No I believe you won't have a problem
Darren *******
Darren *******
No issue with your proposal

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