Visa fees
I've been asked for a return or onward ticket when checking in on an international flight every single time, except when I was flying to the US (which has to let me in, although it's hard to tell from the way they question me...) or Cambodia. I have forged a return ticket a couple times to get around this, which works fine as many people buy tickets online anyway, and all they do is glance at your "return ticket".SunSan wrote:Has anybody here ever been asked that?
The only time I ever flew to Thailand, immigration did ask me for my return ticket - which was the only time that's ever happened to me anywhere. It was my first time to Thailand, but I was carrying a ton of luggage. They didn't ask me for proof of sufficient funds.
I think it's basically the case that they rarely check for a ticket, but if they are unusually suspicious about you (carrying a ton of luggage, as if you're going to stay for a long time) they will check. Few people bother to carry "proof of sufficient funds", so I think they only check for that if you look destitute.
Only dump fools are playing with there luck and give bad advise to others. This is the law, No visa, Return ticket. And when the ask you will need to have money to buy one or wait in immigration hotel. Up to the dumb, And don't forget to PM each other
PS: There is a Thai immigration website
PS: There is a Thai immigration website
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The can ask you fore return ticket and 10,000 Bath fore a single and 20,000Bath fore a family when ariving on a tourist visa exemption (visa on arrival).Phuket2006 wrote:the above is not exactly right, They can " CHOOSE" to refuse to admit you. LAW: To be admitted u need show 20,000 baht/person or the equivalent and a return or onward ticket.
Note i have NEVER been asked for either but they CAN ASK YOU
after 25 years in Thailand the one thing i have learned about the Thai's
is
you never know what they will do at any given moment, laws or not.
They have tons of laws about immigration and overstays and who qualifies for what so that they can enforce them or choose not to them whenever they want to,
If u want to get by , follow the rules
"- According to the Interior Ministerial Announcements, passport holders from 28 countries and territories may apply for visas at the immigration checkpoints for the purpose of tourism for the period of not exceeding 15 days.
- The applicant must possess means of living expenses at the amount of 10,000 Baht per person and 20,000 Baht per family accordingly.
- The applicant must possess a passport with at least six-month validity "" and must present "" full paid ticket which is usable within 15 days since the date of entry
- Visa on arrival is provided at 24 designated international checkpoints and applicants should submit the application form duly filled out and to which his/her recent photograph (4 x 6 cm) is attached. The application fee is 1,000 Baht."
http://www.mfa.go.th/web/2482.php?id=2491
OK to all the so well knowing ... ?
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Well, you got us Frans! Phuket2006 and I's combined 50 years of travel to, from, in and around Thailand without having ever been asked is meaningless compared to what you read on the website.Frans wrote:OK to all the so well knowing ... ?
However, note the things said about appearance and the way you act. Perhaps that was your problem right there.
Jacked Camry wrote:Well, you got us Frans! Phuket2006 and I's combined 50 years of travel to, from, in and around Thailand without having ever been asked is meaningless compared to what you read on the website.Frans wrote:OK to all the so well knowing ... ?
However, note the things said about appearance and the way you act. Perhaps that was your problem right there.
Silly answer, But ok it is from you a sort of intelligent specie
Its not important how many times or duration of stay. The law is important and what immigration officers can do within this law. The rest of all your&mob so well knowing comment is what the leave behind in a toilet
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In recent years I have been asked 3 times by Thai immigration officials why I haven't filled in the address in Thailand spot on my entry card. My reply was that I had ticked transit and was leaving the country that day. Twice this happened in Aranyaprathet, and all I had to do was pull out my AirAsia stuff ,which they never checked, and then got stamped in. The other was at Suvarnabhumi, when I told the guy I lived in Cambodia, and I would get a bus that day to the border and cross it. The guy then found my Cambodian visa in my passport and stamped me in
All those pulls were due to my not filling in the address in Thailand section, and ticking transit on the back of the entry form.
Every time I have filled in an address in Thailand, I have always been stamped in no questions asked.
All those pulls were due to my not filling in the address in Thailand section, and ticking transit on the back of the entry form.
Every time I have filled in an address in Thailand, I have always been stamped in no questions asked.
Dictated to a slave and sent by carrier pigeon.
When I still came to Thailand as a tourist (visa-exempt entry), I was never asked to show a return ticket or funds. That's how it usually goes for Western tourists, and none of my Western friends has ever been asked to show anything either. But it's true that they can ask, so it's better to be prepared.
As for the address field, just write whatever you want to ("Lucky Hotel Bangkok" will do just fine), but never leave the field empty. An empty field will jump right into their eyes.
As for the address field, just write whatever you want to ("Lucky Hotel Bangkok" will do just fine), but never leave the field empty. An empty field will jump right into their eyes.
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Re: Visa fees
Postby PenhMan » Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:47 am
keeping_it_riel wrote:$180 for a year still sounds a little expensive to me. My latest 6 month renewal cost $0 as did the twelve renewals before that.
Thailand's long-stay multi-entry visa is $175 in my home country. The Lucky Lucky 1-year visa "fee" is about $280. So $180 sounds like a deal.
I need to extend by April and my (Viet) GF by late March. Combining the two applications will almost be like "buy 1, get 1 free" if the reasonable fees on the US document are accurate.
Mannacambodia, I am looking forward to your Monday report! Will also be wondering whether immigration staff expect a little "tip" for their efforts because they will not be getting the handsome payoff from the agencies.
yes its $175 but u need leave the country every 90 days and that is NOT a long term visa
I just renewed my 1 year retirement (long term) extension at Phuket immigration, 1,900 baht less than $61, Never have to leave
BUT if i want to go out i need a re entry permit which is 1,000 baht $32 or 3,800 for a multiply entry re entry $122.
so in reality, cause i often go out it costs me $183 for my 1 year visa and i can come and go as I please
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@Frans- almost all countries have similar immigration regulations (you can be asked for means of support and a return ticket) but again, most countries do not enforce these regulations on Western tourists (it would be bad for business.) As you say you have never been asked. Others have never been asked. I've been through 14 countries in Asia on this trip, crossing borders over 20 times, and have never been asked. As others have suggested these regulations are there so that they have an excuse to deny entry to undesirables. I'm a bona fide tourist who has been to Thailand twice for a total of 17 days; I have no intention of trying to overstay my entry or live there (neither previous time I entered was I asked for any sort of ticket or anything else, incidentally, although both entries were by land.)Frans wrote:The can ask you fore return ticket and 10,000 Bath fore a single and 20,000Bath fore a family when ariving on a tourist visa exemption (visa on arrival).Phuket2006 wrote:the above is not exactly right, They can " CHOOSE" to refuse to admit you. LAW: To be admitted u need show 20,000 baht/person or the equivalent and a return or onward ticket.
Note i have NEVER been asked for either but they CAN ASK YOU
after 25 years in Thailand the one thing i have learned about the Thai's
is
you never know what they will do at any given moment, laws or not.
They have tons of laws about immigration and overstays and who qualifies for what so that they can enforce them or choose not to them whenever they want to,
If u want to get by , follow the rules
"- According to the Interior Ministerial Announcements, passport holders from 28 countries and territories may apply for visas at the immigration checkpoints for the purpose of tourism for the period of not exceeding 15 days.
- The applicant must possess means of living expenses at the amount of 10,000 Baht per person and 20,000 Baht per family accordingly.
- The applicant must possess a passport with at least six-month validity "" and must present "" full paid ticket which is usable within 15 days since the date of entry
- Visa on arrival is provided at 24 designated international checkpoints and applicants should submit the application form duly filled out and to which his/her recent photograph (4 x 6 cm) is attached. The application fee is 1,000 Baht."
http://www.mfa.go.th/web/2482.php?id=2491
OK to all the so well knowing ... ?
It's not just a matter of a few $; I have no intention of leaving Thailand by air so it would be a complete waste of a plane ticket. I plan to leave by land to Malaysia. If I had to buy a useless plane ticket every time I crossed a border I'd have wasted thousands of dollars by now.
I'll have well over 10,000 baht in cash and can produce bank statements showing I'm well able to look after myself; I think I'll just take my chances. I accept that the Thai authorities can be a bit random but hopefully they won't be in a bad mood when I'm passing through. If they are, I'll deal with it then (and hopefully buy a cheap train ticket from southern Thailand to just across the border to pacify them.)
Myanmar is amazing. I've never been anywhere like it (well maybe Iran, in certain respects.) It makes Laos look developed, never mind Cambodia. There is far more colonial (and immediately post-colonial) architecture than anywhere else in SE Asia, and it is almost all crumbling in a very romantic-looking way. It is changing, for the good it looks certainly, but in ten years I expect it will be very very different. Well worth a visit before it modernises.
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I was thinking you perhaps type your answers in Flemish then use Babel or some other online program to translate it into English, but surely they'd at least spell the random words correctly. So I'll just have to conclude that you're quite dense as well as having poor English. But neither of those is your fault, so I'll type slowly so that you have a better chance of understanding.Frans wrote:Jacked Camry wrote:Well, you got us Frans! Phuket2006 and I's combined 50 years of travel to, from, in and around Thailand without having ever been asked is meaningless compared to what you read on the website.Frans wrote:OK to all the so well knowing ... ?
However, note the things said about appearance and the way you act. Perhaps that was your problem right there.
Silly answer, But ok it is from you a sort of intelligent specie
Its not important how many times or duration of stay. The law is important and what immigration officers can do within this law. The rest of all your&mob so well knowing comment is what the leave behind in a toilet
The law is there so that they can deny entry to people whose appearance or behaviour makes them undesirable in the eyes of the immigration staff to enter their country. Otherwise, it is never used. So if you dress and act accordingly, you don't have to worry about this.
I look forward to the next random agglomeration of English words from you along with some vague kind of insult. Feel free to send it in Flemish, we can probably get a Dutchie on the board to translate it into something we understand.
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funny story,
Back in the late 80's i flew into Thailand from Nepal. Guy is front of me was a dying breed, Dressed in a sarong, singlet, long hair, sandals and one of those Tibetan bags that go over ur shoulder. He was standing in front of me and i mentioned that he really should change his clothes before we got to the immigration. he said it's all cool.
So he got to the front of the line, the Thai immigration looked at him and just waved him aside and asked me to move forward. The guy was crushed but what an fool.
Back in the late 80's i flew into Thailand from Nepal. Guy is front of me was a dying breed, Dressed in a sarong, singlet, long hair, sandals and one of those Tibetan bags that go over ur shoulder. He was standing in front of me and i mentioned that he really should change his clothes before we got to the immigration. he said it's all cool.
So he got to the front of the line, the Thai immigration looked at him and just waved him aside and asked me to move forward. The guy was crushed but what an fool.
"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
Phuket2006 wrote:funny story,
Back in the late 80's i flew into Thailand from Nepal. Guy is front of me was a dying breed, Dressed in a sarong, singlet, long hair, sandals and one of those Tibetan bags that go over ur shoulder. He was standing in front of me and i mentioned that he really should change his clothes before we got to the immigration. he said it's all cool.
So he got to the front of the line, the Thai immigration looked at him and just waved him aside and asked me to move forward. The guy was crushed but what an fool.
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