What are the current visa rules for entering Thailand through land borders with Laos?

ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS

LAND BORDERS WITH LAO OPEN

The land borders with Lao opened on Monday for entry from Thailand (they've been open to get out of Lao into thailand for a while now)

The two thai consulates in Lao (Vientiane & Savannakhet) are open and running (they actually always were, what closed was the border not the consulate :P )

The consulate is in Vientiane and it requires you book an online appointment to get in the gate to apply for a visa

this is their website,

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This is the link to make an appointment

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IF you make an appointment and then miss it you're blocked from the system for a month (I think it's a month but it could be just 10 days :P ) what it means though is you can't use that consulate until you're unlocked and can book another appointment :/

The other thai consulate is in Savannakhet (across the river from Mukdahan)

They are walk up service, this is their website

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NOTE: The thai consulate in Vientiane does NOT issue year-long, multi-entry Non-Immigrant visas of any type. Just 90 day single entry.

It's the thai consulate in Savannakhet that used to issue the year-long, multi-entry Non-O's for marriage to a thai and raising half thai children.

It does not list that they offer the year-multi Non-O on the Savannakhet thai consulate website, you write year/multiple on the application form and you give them 5000baht. <- That's how it worked before and hopefully how it will continue to work.

At this time no one knows if they will continue to do it as no one has visa run to Savannakhet for one and reported back in yet.

Here is the entry process to Lao