Will I face problems re-entering Thailand with a passport under processing and a valid visa?

It's also not easy for UK non business travellers to get a second passport. What I cannot seem to find is how long the second passport is valid for. Wether it's a fresh 10 years or only valid for the same time as number 1 passport. Either way, unless your working and can prove the need, you'll likely not get one.

I know with 100% certainty that a brit passport is canceled the minute you apply for a new one because it says so here.

As a German it is this way....u apply for a new one witch needs about 2 weeks .it comes from Germany to the consulate here on phuket. Till you not get it in your hands, the old one is the only one , as they give it to me, the old one is canceled and I go a letter from them that I got a new one.

In between I could travel and in and out of thailand as much as I want.

What I did without any problems.

Rob Huff I think some people maybe getting confused with keeping it but not being able to travel on it. 😊

@Ron ******

in the past with US passports, when you applied for the new passport the old one was cancelled. I wasn't aware of the outreach service that allows you to keep your current travel privileges. But that's new from 3 years ago when I got my new book in the US. They were actually very clear at the passport office that even if I found my lost/stolen passport, as soon as I left the window the current book was not longer valid.

My other old passports were all returned with my new one, with two holes punched in it. I've also seen the cut corners from others on the group here.

What I've never heard of is someone applying for a new passport and having the old one remain valid unless it was granted a special permission (one for Israel, one for Arab countries).

Tod I was always under the impression that like the UK, the US allowed you to keep the old passport but you couldn't travel on it. Then, again the same as the UK, once you had the new one, the old one was completely cancelled? The UK puts a notice somehow on the system once they receive the application to stop you travelling on the old passport. It's then snipped on the corners once you have the new one.

I think it's going to come down to the O/P getting a hold of his consulate where ever he is now and asking them IF he can still travel back to thailand on his current passport after ordering a new one.

Only they can let him know if his current one is good for travel or not.

The less that 6 months less on your passport wouldn't have stopped you from entering the country because you have a valid visa or extension.

BUT as everyone pointed out once you apply for new passport the old one can't be used for international travel anymore.

I'm interested where you went to get a new passport because your profile gives you living in Rayong

and what was the reason you left the country to get a new passport? Doesn't your country have a consulate here?

No. You cannot travel

@Harris *******

you are unfortunately stuck wherever you are until that passport arrives.

As soon as you apply for a new passport, your current passport isn't valid for travel.

Well, if your new passport has already been processed your current passport will no longer be valid and you won't be allowed anywhere...

Best advice is to wait for the new passport. You technically don't have a valid passport so your work will just have to understand.