You can’t obtain a METV from Laos unless you have residency or are a Laotian national. Apart from your home country, Australia is the only place this Visa is available.

Do NOT use the Poi Pet border crossing, they are notoriously difficult IO/crooks.

Yes, copies of everything, passport photo, fill the form out.

If attempting to enter the Kingdom on a Visa exemption, it’s always been a legal requirement to have booked travel arrangements leaving the Kingdom within the validity period of the exemption (30) days. It’s also a requirement to have 10,000 baht in cash or foreign equivelent, & booked accomodation for the first few days. You may never be asked, but they are lawful requirements none the less.

Well by the time they get the online portal to actually work or at least answer the telephone to learn of these major bugs in the program, other than 2 week millionaires who don’t require a Visa, whose going to put up with the stress.

That’ll be interesting as elements of the current site don’t work & no one answers the phone at the London Embassy. Only been going since 95, & can’t get a Visa or anyone to answer the phone.

Possibly depending on what countries they are from, they will however been linked, so you won’t be able to bounce between the two in order to spend longer in Thailand, unless of course one of those passports is Thai.

12go Asia or seat61 for booking bus/train tickets out. Email confirmation & print if necessary.

@Dennis ********

the Thai Embassy in London requires NO evidence from anyone when applying for a SETV.

If your kids are in school on Education Visa’s you can apply for an extension of stay based on guardianship. The school should supply the relevant paperwork. 500,000bht needs to be ‘seasoned’ per application per year, on top of any school fees. More senior members will have more specific information.