Does anyone know if I can have both a DTV visa and also visa for other countries, for example Bali 211A 60 days visa (extended to 180 days).. basically trying to work out if I can do 6 months in Thailand one winter.. the 6months back home in uk.. then the next winter, 6 months in Bali. Thanks 😉

There seems to be a lot of profiles on many Thailand tourist and expat pages and groups asking for pictures of visa exemption stamps, I am not sure if there is anything sinister happening, but I would be interested in knowing why anyone would need a picture of the visa.

Does anyone have recent experience entering by flight into thailand with a tourist visa but with a passport filled with pages of extension stamps back from the covid stamp days? Have there been any issues entering through customs/ immigration?

Unfriendly welcome at Suvarnabhumi Airport

Yesterday just after midnight and after 4.5 months of travelling in China and central Asia I arrived back in Thailand at Suvarnabhumi airport. Wanted to enter on visa Excempt like I normally do 2 or 3 times a year since 2011. Nowadays I extend the visa after 1 month with that 1900 baht extension. So I normally stay for 2 months then travel 3 or 4 months in Asia and then come back. During Covid I have not been in Thailand for 2 years.

My 7 year old 66 page Dutch passport is now full with Asian visa stamps and stickers. The emigration officer goes through all of them. He speaks he mix of english and Thai numbers and Thai border cities to himself or to me, that was not clear. Then asks how long I want to stay. I say 30 days, but then i remember the rumor of 60 day excempt and say 60 days. He did not like that answer and presses the red button.

Another officer comes and I have to follow him to a desk. He blames me of going to other countries 1 day and then come back, which I never did. Mostly there are 3 or 4 months between my reentries. Then he showed me Lao stamps from 2018 where I stayed 1 week in Laos. Is that not allowed? He says if he went to my country he would have more problems, well can I help that? He blamed me for coming for thai girls.

I could enter this time but next time would send me back.

So is there a rule that I cannot enter 2 or 3 times on visa excempt? I know at land borders its 2 times.

Does thailand no like tourists?

Should I worry next time when I want to enter on visa excempt?

PS Next morning after sleeping on the bench in the airport, I suddenly remember the first thing the first officer said was something with 2 dollar, but I could not hear it clear and asked sorry? Or did I dream this?

Just a little bit of advice. When you receive any stamp in your passport before you leave the desk make sure you can clearly read the stamp.

This week came from Laos and on arrival at Thai immigration they could not read the exit stamp from Laos, to be honest it was very faint. After being told to return to Laos to get another visa and entry and exit stamps the senior guy did let me in. They were polite and helpful. But just beware!

I received my 90 day non O, and one year extension (retirement), and multi entry stamp, 60 days ago. But my passport was full after all the stamps. So I sent off for a replacement passport, that I have just received back, with the old passport too. I have an international flight out, in early April, and back to BKK in late April.

Do I need to go to immigration and get the stamps transferred over to my new passport, before my flight out?

Or possibly it’s something that can be done at BKK airport immigration, upon my return flight?

Does any one know the if the 7 day extension for after your 60 days for 1300 is actually a thing and if so is it a "bad stamp to have in your passport

CHECK YOUR STAMPS

Recently we’ve seen a few posts about people getting incorrect stamps in their passport - either on entry or by an immigration office when getting an extension.

Immigration officers are human and therefore can make mistakes. The onus is on you to check the stamp they gave you.

One recent one was a person with a UK passport that was stamped in with a ผผ.90 stamp effectively showing they could stay for 90 days when they should have received a ผ.30 visa exempt stamp for 30 days. Probably was on the same flight as a group of Russians that correctly got the ผผ.90 stamp and the immigration officer just didn’t notice the error.

The immigration computer system almost certainly has the correct date you are allowed to stay until but the manual stamp shown in your passport may be wrong.

The fact that the entry stamp (or extension stamp) is incorrect does not mean you have the ability to stay until that date.

Another common error is that people with a PDF Visa from the evisa system are stamped for an exempt entry for 30 days as the officer hasn’t noticed they have a visa, so they don’t get the correct 60 day stamp. Almost certainly in this case the computer system will show they can only stay 30 days, when it should be 60.

Again the onus is on you to check. As a general rule you can get an airport stamp corrected at most immigration offices (some may say you have to go back to the airport to correct it), but if a land entry stamp then 100% you’ll need to go back to that entry point to get it corrected. If the error is from an extension stamp from an immigration office then almost certainly you’ll need to return there to get it corrected - although that may differ from office to office.

Any way around this? I fly in and out of Thailand every month. I am on an LTR remote working. Every month I get stamped in until 2028. But my passport is filling up with stamps. Any ideas to get around this? Thanks

Just wondering as I've not done before. When I return to Thailand with a re entry permit, obviously that will be stamped as used. Do they put any other stamp in my passport or do I just revert to my original extension stamp. Hope that makes sense.