Is traveling to Laos for a new tourist visa to Thailand a safe plan given my current visa situation?

AND on that note we're done.. What this isn't gonna turn into is a "what does vientiane require" post. GO to the website read it, follow it, meet the requirements, get the visa, don't meet them or try to get around their requirements and you'll have issues

Also they speak GREAT english there, CALL them and ask them

Keep in mind

@Karla *******

that the thai consulate in Vientiane takes 3 WORKING days to issue visas,

SO

if you apply on the morning of the 18th you will not be able to get your passport back until the 22nd (Monday afternoon).

Go to the website of the thai consulate in Vientiane, read the requirements the tourist visa. Meet the requirements to the letter and you'll get the visa

you need the bank statement,

you need proof you're FLYING out of thailand in 60 days from the date you apply for the visa (proof you're going back to your country is better than just proof you're flying to a nearby country)

and

you need proof you have confirmed lodging for the whole 60 days you will get stamped in on the tourist visa

That is a NO NONSENSE thai consulate, you meet the requirements you get the visa, you don't meet them they'll turn you away.

Sadly for you

@Karla *******

you are from a country that has to HAVE a valid visa to get IN.

You didn't do a "visa run" at the border with Myanmar because you can't GET visas at the border. 🙁 You tried to bounce out and back to get a free stamp <- but you're NOT from a country that gets free stamps on entry.. 😕

You can go to a thai consulate in nearby country in the area and apply for a single entry tourist visa. That will get you stamped in for 60 days when you come back and you can extend that once for 30 like you did before at the immigration office for 1900baht