Well, if you get the UK visa before you travel then yes you can! That would save you getting separate visas, as if you were to get the irish visa before you left to fly into Dublin you would need a separate UK visa then to fly to the UK so your best bet would be to try and acquire the UK visa and fly into Belfast and just get the train down as you said, you're killing 2 birds with the one stone as they say with the visa for the uk

If you get the UK visa you can visit Ireland through the north and come down but I know if you are coming from Ireland to the UK you definitely need a separate visa for the UK. My wife and I live in Ireland and we had to make a trip to the embassy in London to renew her passport during covid and there were no such facilities in Ireland at the time. We applied for the visa and were waiting about 2 weeks and she was granted the visa to travel to England. To apply for the visa we had to go an office in dublin that handles the visas for the UK for a interview to answer a few questions and bring all the paperwork with us

@Gilbert *******

keep an eye on things as the visa exempt stamp could change at anytime back to 30 days instead of 60 between now and 2026

@Gilbert *******

No ! You get a 60 day stamp in your passport in the airport at immagration that you can extend by another 30 days at any local immagration office if you wish to stay up to 90 days

@George ********

definitely not peak! In actual fact probably the lowest period of the year because it's the height of the rainy season

Automatic gates? No problem! Your details of exiting thailand have been recorded on immagrations system

@Pierre *******

He/she will look at your passport and will automatically give you the 60 days stamp. No need to ask anything :)

@Pierre *******

no! 60 day on arrival stamp and you can extend that by another 30 days if you wish at your local immagration office

@Graham *****

outsourced ,ahh OK got ya 👌

@Will ***********

really ? Who provides the visa in her passport ,does it have to be sent to England for to be done or what?

I know when my wife came to Ireland (I know a different country) but alot of the time we have similar rules and ways , when her visa was approved we had to go to the embassy in bkk and they attached it to a page in her passport. Sorry for the misinformation on my part