Thai Immigration -- 30-days border runs now only 15 days
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Thai Immigration -- 30-days border runs now only 15 days
http://www.thaivisa.com/latest/thai-imm ... gners.html
Thai Immigration changes the rules for all foreigners
Thursday, 04 December 2008
30-days border runs now only 15 days
In order to limit the amount of foreigners using "back-to-back" border runs, Thai Immigration has issued a new regulation regarding the 30 days tourist exemption.
Effective immediately, travellers without visa will get only 15 days of stay if they are arriving via a land border checkpoint from a neighboring country.
Discuss this news in our forum:
Passengers arriving via an international airport will obtain a 30 days stay, and for them there is no change.
Travellers with Malaysian passports will obtain a 30 days stay.
This police order number 778/2551 is today confirmed by Royal Thai Police, Immigration Bureau, in Bangkok.
-- thaivisa.com 2008-12-04
Thai Immigration changes the rules for all foreigners
Thursday, 04 December 2008
30-days border runs now only 15 days
In order to limit the amount of foreigners using "back-to-back" border runs, Thai Immigration has issued a new regulation regarding the 30 days tourist exemption.
Effective immediately, travellers without visa will get only 15 days of stay if they are arriving via a land border checkpoint from a neighboring country.
Discuss this news in our forum:
Passengers arriving via an international airport will obtain a 30 days stay, and for them there is no change.
Travellers with Malaysian passports will obtain a 30 days stay.
This police order number 778/2551 is today confirmed by Royal Thai Police, Immigration Bureau, in Bangkok.
-- thaivisa.com 2008-12-04
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Quite a few of those visa runners just go to Koh Kong, don't bother with any other place in Cambodia. Same goes for Vientiane or Tachilek for those in the north and Penang/Kota Baru and that place in Burma for those in the south.
The Thais are fine-tuning it. Note the 15 day entry pass is issued only at landborders. Arrivals at the airports still get the usual 30 days.
If those cunts hadn't started abusing this, after all, free entry, it'd still be easy for every legit 'just- passer- through'. Now they'll just have to pay for a visa, just like we have to pay for our KH visas and Thais have to pay for a Schengen visa.
The Thais are fine-tuning it. Note the 15 day entry pass is issued only at landborders. Arrivals at the airports still get the usual 30 days.
If those cunts hadn't started abusing this, after all, free entry, it'd still be easy for every legit 'just- passer- through'. Now they'll just have to pay for a visa, just like we have to pay for our KH visas and Thais have to pay for a Schengen visa.
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No one is going to pay for visas. They're just going to pay for flights to Phnom Penh or KL on Air Asia every thirty days. Making a grueling overland trip to Poipet or Vientiane and back every fifteen days is insane and it wouldn't even be much cheaper than a monthly Air Asia flight. I suspect that the companies who run overland visa runs will take a huge hit. The overland run makes little sense now if it only buys you 15 days.SunSan wrote:Quite a few of those visa runners just go to Koh Kong, don't bother with any other place in Cambodia. Same goes for Vientiane or Tachilek for those in the north and Penang/Kota Baru and that place in Burma for those in the south.
The Thais are fine-tuning it. Note the 15 day entry pass is issued only at landborders. Arrivals at the airports still get the usual 30 days.
Expect crowded Air Asia flights to and from Bangkok from now on filled with flying Pattaya dudes.
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What's the air asia schedule - can they book onto the turnaround flight, or do they end up with a day or night at the airport? Also unless they get one of the 999 baht deals, a return PP ticket is considerably more than those border runs, so I would imagine many will try and make it worth while, and stay for a couple of days to get a 90 day tourist visa out of it. With pattaya becoming overrun with arabs and russians, some of the runners might decide to stay in PP.
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one more reason not to fly air asia. i didn't know u had to pay for drinks on the flight and i didn't have any baht. i was hugely pregnant and really thirsty (had to give my bottled water to immigration)-- i begged for a cup of ice and they refused to give it to me. bastards.gavinmac wrote:
Expect crowded Air Asia flights to and from Bangkok from now on filled with flying Pattaya dudes.
it's bangkok airways for me from now on, sometimes they're actually cheaper.
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1st you only allowed 90 days on the free waiver entrance visas out of 180 days That has not changed from last year
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2 ONLY laos is issuing tousist visas for thailand to Farangs. (Cambodia was turning people down if your white unless u know someone
they want you to retun to your own country (as thats what a "real" tourist does).
Sometimes the neighboring countries will issue you a tourist visa ONCE if u have not had one in a year.
Face it
they dont want Farangs that aren't on the correct visa or True tourists
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2 ONLY laos is issuing tousist visas for thailand to Farangs. (Cambodia was turning people down if your white unless u know someone
they want you to retun to your own country (as thats what a "real" tourist does).
Sometimes the neighboring countries will issue you a tourist visa ONCE if u have not had one in a year.
Face it
they dont want Farangs that aren't on the correct visa or True tourists
"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer." HST
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Has there been another Thai "visa runner" crackdown? I just read that they will no longer tourists/ expats who leave by land to re-enter without visa.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g2 ... iland.html
If I'm reading correctly, then instead of making visa runs to Poipet or Malaysia these guys may all have to buy a cheap Air Asia ticket and fly into Phnom Penh and back to Thailand every month. That's not good.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g2 ... iland.html
If I'm reading correctly, then instead of making visa runs to Poipet or Malaysia these guys may all have to buy a cheap Air Asia ticket and fly into Phnom Penh and back to Thailand every month. That's not good.
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Notwithstanding the fact that more pattaya bottom feeder expats might settle here that will also mean more money spent in Cambodia for transport, food and hotels. Only real draw back I can see is rising airfares.gavinmac wrote:Has there been another Thai "visa runner" crackdown? I just read that they will no longer tourists/ expats who leave by land to re-enter without visa.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g2 ... iland.html
If I'm reading correctly, then instead of making visa runs to Poipet or Malaysia these guys may all have to buy a cheap Air Asia ticket and fly into Phnom Penh and back to Thailand every month. That's not good.
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I'm honestly a bit perplexed by some posters on this site.
They often post/complain about bottom-feeders, sexpats, teflers, Pattaya scum etc.
Let's assume they're right in their assumption that there are many of these here. And let's be generous, and assume that the complainants are a wealthier, better class of people than those they complain about.
Can anyone tell me why a decent, wealthy person would willingly come to/stay in such a place, knowing what they claim to be true?
I know it's not possible, in any universe, that the complainants themselves cannot afford to move elsewhere/are actually not part of the upper echelons of international society. I also know that it's not possible that really rich (in international terms) people might view the complainants in the same way that the complainants view the expat 'scum' here.
My point is that Singapore is so close, more discerning in accepting long-stays, more professional class of people, more law and order, so why not go?
OK, it's much more expensive, but...oh, wait...
They often post/complain about bottom-feeders, sexpats, teflers, Pattaya scum etc.
Let's assume they're right in their assumption that there are many of these here. And let's be generous, and assume that the complainants are a wealthier, better class of people than those they complain about.
Can anyone tell me why a decent, wealthy person would willingly come to/stay in such a place, knowing what they claim to be true?
I know it's not possible, in any universe, that the complainants themselves cannot afford to move elsewhere/are actually not part of the upper echelons of international society. I also know that it's not possible that really rich (in international terms) people might view the complainants in the same way that the complainants view the expat 'scum' here.
My point is that Singapore is so close, more discerning in accepting long-stays, more professional class of people, more law and order, so why not go?
OK, it's much more expensive, but...oh, wait...
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
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Why would any posters here want to live in Singapore? It's dead boring. Not every decision that anyone ever makes is motivated by money.
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