Will I be able to get a TR visa in Vientiane with my new passport?

@Luke *******

Thanks.

TR is the visa class for tourist. He is referring to SETV's (Single Entry Tourist Visas) issued by the Thai Consulate in Vientiane, Laos.

@Luke *******

thanks! Your info is much appreciated!

Jim James Yes they do, but they either need to either dig into the computer or go to the back office use a different software, not entirely sure. What I am pretty confident is that the first screen shows them the last 3 entries or so. I may be mistaken though.

@Luke *******

. All good at Embassies/Consulates,but at actual borders,immigration have All your previous entries on their Data Base, so,new passport makes No difference.

Christopher Benjamin Hägglöf Exactly what I am trying to avoid. Red stamps would generally come on the third consecutive ( or non consecutive?) visa from a place like Vientiane. After that stamp, no chance of getting another visa at the same Consulate until you change the passport.

But it's all good now since you have a fresh passport.

Rik Jaques Another one hard to answer. I had about 7 SETVs on my previous passport but then again I change it every two years.

Never heard a comment from Immigration, the issues are more likely to be at the Consulates when the passport gets too full. But some of them just don't care. But I mix them up. One after another. I don't hit the same Consulate twice in a row and no more than twice in total per passport.

Again, I do travel as well. Just recently came back from a three week trip to Europe.

On visa runs, if the admitted until is the 6th, I leave on the 2nd (never stretch it to the very last day).

Sometimes I stay an extra day in the place where I got my visa from simply because I like it, sometimes not.

Now I'm thinking to do Bali, get another SETV there, and probably stay a week. 😁

Then sometimes i get reentry permits for occasional trips. My nationality does not qualify for visa exempt anyways.

To conclude, the lottery is more on repeated visa exempt entries (more than 6 and the system has a warning in place), rather than on SETVs, where it's highly unlikely to be refused entry.

Hi Luke, just out of interest; in your experience how many setv (from all locations) per passport is ok before it becomes a issue with Thai immigration? And approximately what sort of time does someone need to spend between leaving Thailand and then re-entering? Is it just the time it takes to process the visa and then back in or a little longer with each new visa?

@Glen *******

It's a tricky question because we don't have a definitive answer and situations can change. Phnom Pehn for instance seems to be counting them all, but Vientiane should be counting only the ones issued by them. Generally, 2 or 3 from Vientiane in a passport is safe, 4th they may refuse. That's exactly why I wanted to know how many from Vientiane did the OP have in his previous passport.

To be safe, I only hit one location twice per passport.

Hi Luke, is it a factor of how many stamps you have from Laos? Or from Thailand?