@Tomáš ********

I wish you well, have a good trip and I hope there will be a solution in the waiting for your "two passports" adventure

@Tomáš ********

well it leaves me speechless. when my passport is running out of pages, I will need a new passport, and when I pick the new passport up, the old one gets punched and marked "invalid". That's how it works in most countries. There is nothing such as "two valid passports at the same time". And there's a reason why it is handled this way. You are already experiencing the pitfalls of this incredibly stupid behaviour of your country's passport issuing authorities. Well, maybe a well-meaning officer at the Savannakhet Consulate will have mercy with you

@Stelar ******

I have no idea, normally your old passport gets invalidated when you pick up the new passport. You but keep the old passport, enter Thailand with the new one, and then have all valid Thai stamps transferred from the old to the new passport. Same applies when you pick up the new passport on the Embassy of your home country in Bangkok.

@Stelar ******

yeah, that's what I thought - he should have visited Immigration while he still was in Thailand, and had the stay permit stamp transferred from the old to the new passport., in order to be able to use the new passport for exiting Thailand AND entering Laos

a good question. The passport with which you are supposed to apply for a Non-Imm-O visa at the Savannakhet Consulate must still have a validity of 6 months or 180 days. You are lucky if your old passport still good for that, because your previous visa is in their system and they will see it. They could ask you why you hadn't transferred the stay permit from the old to the new passport, while you were still in Thailand. Bevause THIS IS what you are supposed to do on Immigration as soon as you have picked up a new passport . . . . . Yet, if the numbers of both passports are the same, I would actually try to use the new passport (and no questions asked) and see what they will do

the airline can refuse boarding if you don't have a flight out of Thailand within the 30 days you will get stamped in

@Phil ****

I keep fingers crossed your plan will succeed

@Phil ****

it would be possible because you can get a 30 days extension on the tourist visa, however on a very tight schedule. And it is also doable on a visa exempt, just need a border run and another visa-exempt entry. That's why everybody says, visit your immigration and ask for the handout of their requirements for the "change of visa type" from TR to 90-days Non-O visa

@Phil ****

it depends on the office. Jomtien is known for demanding that the 800,000.- have to be seasoned for the application to the visa. However they don't want to see the proof the money came from abroad

@Craig *******

I thought for the application to the Non-O visa, no seasoning of the 800,000.- THB is needed ? Only when you apply for the 1-year Extension the money must have seasoned for two months. Was this the Jomtien office?