Category Archives: Visa

Thai visa runner panic

December 17, 2006 – 3:09 am

Starting on Jan. 1, 2007 those westerners living in Thailand on 30-day tourist stamps will find themselves persona non grata in the Land of Smiles, due to the expected enforcement of a new immigration law Royal Police order 608/2509 aimed at restricting farangs from exercising the 30-day tourist visa as a permanent rubber stamp for residence here. No […]

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Visa panic in Pattaya

September 18, 2006 – 7:18 am

Thousands of farangs throughout Thailand have been traveling to the Laos, Burma, Malay, and Cambodian borders to re-up permission to stay in the Land of Smiles with a VOA or Visa on Arrival. Every morning hundreds of vans travel to Poipet, Prum, Koh Kong, Vientienne, Mai Sot, Mai Sai, Kota Bharu, and other obscure frontier crossings, […]

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Visa runs Penang

June 18, 2006 – 11:04 am

Most farangs enter Thailand with a multiple-entry visa. Life is good. Only having to leave the Kingdom once every three months. Time goes quick when you’re having fun or doing nothing more than drinking beer, but suddenly you are faced with having to get a new visa or else submit to the monthly trip to […]

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Visa overstay on Thai border runs

April 21, 2006 – 11:05 pm

Most foreigners in Thailand are obliged to make regular border runs for visa renewals. My passport is cramped with visits to Prum, the frontier nearest to Pattaya. Most trips are relatively easy other than the 6:30am departure, but the earlier the mini-bus leaves, the less people at the crossing and the faster the process of renewing your visa. 

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